Congress returns
What happened
The party that had won the previous election saw a collapse just as sharp this time, and a different party returned to govern Uttar Pradesh.
The Indian National Congress (I) won 309 of the 425 seats, a supermajority of the assembly.
That was 96 seats more than it needed for a bare majority.
Its nearest rival was the Janata Party (Secular) - Ch. Charan Singh, which won 59 seats.
What changed
The clearest movement in this election was in which seats changed hands, from the outgoing party to the incoming one.
254 constituencies that had gone to the Janata Party last time — since split into rival factions — went to the INC(I) this time.
Independents also picked up 17 seats of their own in the new assembly.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from this election are worth knowing on their own.
Bihar, Uttar Pradesh was the closest result of the election, decided by a margin of just 10 votes — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second.
At the other end, Mankapur, Uttar Pradesh saw the widest margin of the election, with the winner ahead by 56.9% of the vote.
Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — peaked in Jaswantnagar, Uttar Pradesh, at 65.4%.
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh was the largest constituency by registered voters, with 1,71,093 electors on its rolls.
The backdrop
Beyond the top two parties, several smaller and newly formed parties broke into the assembly this time.
JNP(SC), INC(U), BJP, JNP(SR), and JNP(JP) each won a seat for the first time.