A hung house on a smaller map
What happened
The incumbent won more seats than any other party in Punjab, but this time no party crossed the mark needed to govern alone.
The Indian National Congress took 48 of the 104 seats.
Its nearest rival, the Akali Dal - Sant Fateh Singh Group, won 24 seats.
INC's vote share — the slice of all ballots cast that went to one party or candidate — fell to 37.5%.
What changed
This election was held on Punjab's reduced map, after Haryana and the hill districts split away.
The assembly shrank from 154 to 104 seats to match the smaller state.
No single party crossed the 53-seat majority mark this time, leaving a hung house — a result where no single party wins enough seats to govern alone.
Notable numbers
A few individual results from that count stand out.
The tightest finish was Gidder Baha, Punjab, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 57 votes.
At the other extreme, the winner in Dakala, Punjab finished 73.5% of the vote ahead of the runner-up.
Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — peaked in Samrala, Punjab, at 76.4%.
The most crowded contest was Abohar, Punjab, where 11 candidates stood for one seat.
The backdrop
Punjab's new, smaller map came out of a nationwide state reorganisation.
Parliament's Punjab Reorganisation Act, passed in September 1966, took effect on 1 November 1966: most of the state's territory formed the new state of Haryana, hill districts transferred to Himachal Pradesh, and Chandigarh became a shared union territory capital. The 1967 assembly election was the first held on this reduced map.