This state's second assembly election went the same way as its first: Indian National Congress held on, and more comfortably than before.

In West Bengal, the INC won 152 of the 252 seats, 3 more than it had won last time.

Its vote share — the slice of all ballots cast that went to one party or candidate — rose to 46.1%, while the Communist Party of India came in second on 17.8%.

This was also the first election held on a new assembly map.

The boundaries had just gone through delimitation — the official redrawing of constituency boundaries, which happens every so often as India's population shifts.

Some of that year's constituencies still used a multi-member design, where the same contest sent more than one MLA to the assembly.

57 of the 195 constituencies worked this way that year.

A few more numbers stand out from that count.

The tightest finish: Contai North, West Bengal was decided by just 63 votes — the smallest margin, how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second, of any seat that year.

The widest winning margin was in Kotulpur, West Bengal, where the top candidate finished 64.6% of the vote clear of the rest.

Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — was highest in Suti, West Bengal, at 77.8%.

Raipur, West Bengal drew the largest field of the year, 15 candidates on one ballot.

This result kept the state's early pattern in place: one party governing comfortably, with a divided opposition split across several smaller parties.