A near-total Congress sweep
What happened
Congress won nearly every seat on offer in Tripura's earliest assembly election on record.
The Indian National Congress won 27 of the 30 seats.
That was a landslide result, with 11 more seats than it needed for a majority.
Its nearest rival, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), managed just 2 seats.
What changed
With no earlier election on record to weigh it against, this result stands on its own scale.
The INC cleared the 16-seat majority mark by 11 seats.
On average, about 2.9 candidates stood in each constituency.
Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — came to 71.6% across the state that year.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from that election stand out.
The tightest race was in Kadamtala, Tripura, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 34 votes.
At the other extreme, Muhuripur, Tripura was the most lopsided contest, with the winner ahead by 57.4% of the vote.
The highest turnout of any seat was in Kalyanpur, Tripura, at 87.5%.
The most crowded ballot was in Bishalgarh, Tripura, where 5 candidates stood.
The backdrop
Only a small number of parties took any seats at all, and no independent candidate won one that year.