No party came close to a majority on its own in Jammu & Kashmir's assembly this election.

Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party won the most seats, 28 of 87.

That left it well short of the 44-seat majority mark.

Its nearest rival, Bharatiya Janata Party, won 25 seats.

Governing power in Jammu & Kashmir changed hands, ending a long run for the outgoing party.

Jammu & Kashmir National Conference had won 6 elections in a row before this one.

Across the state, 48 of 87 constituencies elected a different party than they had before.

The single biggest swing ran from JKN to JKPDP, which picked up 10 of its seats that way.

A few numbers from the results stand out.

The closest race was in Gurez, Jammu & Kashmir, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of 141 votes.

The widest margin was in Jammu West, Jammu & Kashmir, where the winner finished 51.4% ahead.

Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — peaked in Nagrota, Jammu & Kashmir, reaching 83.2%.

NOTA — "None of the Above," a ballot option letting voters formally reject every candidate on offer — drew 49,129 votes statewide, 1.0% of the total.

JKPDP was founded by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in 1999, and first shared power after the 2002 election, when it won 16 of 87 seats.¹