The same party won again, extending its hold on the state assembly.

In West Bengal, the Indian National Congress took 157 of the 252 seats, extending its run to 3 wins in a row.

Its vote share — the slice of all ballots cast that went to one party or candidate — climbed to 47.3%, while the Communist Party of India held second place on 25.0%.

This was also the first election on a fully redrawn single-member map.

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

For the first time, every constituency elected exactly one member, instead of some contests sending more than one member as before.

The assembly still totalled 252 members, the same total as 252 the time before.

A few numbers from this count are worth knowing.

The tightest finish: Panchla, West Bengal was decided by just 19 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 63.8% of the vote clear of the rest.

Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — was highest in Singur, West Bengal, at 77.1%.

Kalimpong, West Bengal drew the largest field on any ballot that year, 8 candidates in all.

This result kept the state's assembly under the same party as before, now elected from a fully reshaped, single-member map.