A hung house after Congress's collapse
What happened
Congress lost power again, and this time no single party won enough seats to govern alone.
The Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the largest party, with 85 of the 200 seats.
That left a hung house — a result where no single party wins enough seats to govern alone.
Its closest rival, the Janata Dal, won 55 seats without ever having won a seat here before.
What changed
This wasn't just any change of government — Congress's own support collapsed sharply.
53 of the Indian National Congress's seats moved straight to the BJP, the single biggest shift of the election.
Across the state, 145 of 200 seats changed hands from the previous election.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from that election stand out.
The tightest finish was at Sagwara, Rajasthan, decided by a margin of just 64 votes — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second.
Chhabra, Rajasthan had the widest margin of the year, with the winner finishing 53.1% of the vote ahead of the runner-up.
About 73.4% of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot at Mahuwa, Rajasthan, the highest share of any seat that year.
Bikaner, Rajasthan drew the largest field of the election, with 48 candidates on the ballot.
The backdrop
This kept the state without a government able to command a majority on its own.