A third win for Congress
What happened
The incumbent won a comfortable majority in Punjab again, with fewer seats than before.
The Indian National Congress took 90 of the 154 seats.
That was comfortably more than the 78 needed to govern alone.
Its nearest rival, the Akali Dal, won only 19 seats.
INC's vote share — the slice of all ballots cast that went to one party or candidate — was 43.7%.
What changed
This win extended the state's longest run yet for a single party.
The INC has now won 3 elections in a row here.
Even so, its own seat count slipped from 120 to 90 as new parties entered the assembly.
Among the debutants were the AD, SOC, SWA, and HLS.
Notable numbers
A few individual results from that count stand out.
The closest race of the count was Lambi, Punjab, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 11 votes.
At the other end, Ajnala, Punjab saw the winner finish 46.7% of the vote ahead of the runner-up.
Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — peaked in Ludhiana City, Punjab, at 78.9%.
The most crowded contest was Tosham, Punjab, where 13 candidates stood for one seat.
The backdrop
Its run in Punjab by this point already spanned the state's entire electoral history to date.