AGP returns, but without a majority
What happened
A regional party returned to power, but this time without a majority of its own.
The Asom Gana Parishad won 61 seats, short of the 64-seat majority mark — a hung house, where no single party wins enough seats to govern alone.
It governed instead through a coalition called the United Front, which totalled 66 seats.
What changed
Seats swung back toward the regional party that had first come to power some years before.
Indian National Congress lost the most ground of any party.
31 of its seats flipped to AGP.
The election also saw ASDC, AIIC(T), and UMFA win seats under their own names for the first time.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from that election stand out.
INC actually won a higher vote share — the slice of all ballots cast that went to one party or candidate — than the winner, 30.7% to 30.1% — yet still finished with far fewer seats.
The closest race: Moran, Assam was decided by just 262 votes — the margin, how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second.
At Doom Dooma, Assam, the margin widened to 49.7% of the vote, the widest of the election.
The backdrop
This continued the regional party's long rivalry with its national rival for control of the state.