Congress holds Delhi for a second term
What happened
Congress won a second term in Delhi, seeing off a challenge from the BJP.
The Indian National Congress won 47 of the 70 seats on offer.
That was on 48.1% of the vote share — the slice of all ballots cast that went to one party or candidate.
Its nearest rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party, won 20 seats.
What changed
Congress kept control of Delhi, but with less room to spare than the first time around.
It was the party's 2th win in a row.
Its own seat count slipped a little, from 52 at the previous election to 47 this time.
The single biggest shift ran from the INC to the BJP, accounting for 10 seats.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from the results stand out on their own.
Saket, Delhi saw the tightest finish of the night, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 121 votes.
Mangolpuri, Delhi was the widest win of the night, with the winner finishing 52.9% of the vote ahead of the runner-up.
Moti Nagar, Delhi recorded the highest turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — at 62.3%.
The most crowded rolls belonged to Badli, Delhi, with 2,71,032 names on the electoral roll.
The backdrop
This election took place within a Legislative Assembly that was still relatively new to Delhi.
The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act, 1991, together with the Constitution's 69th Amendment, restored an elected Legislative Assembly for Delhi after a 37-year gap. The first election to the new 70-seat Assembly was held in 1993; land, police and public order remained under central government control.