All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won a second election in a row.

The ADK won 129 of the 234 seats on offer.

That left it with 11 seats to spare above the majority mark.

Its nearest rival, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, won 37 seats.

The winning party was returned to power for a second election running.

It had now won 2 elections in a row.

This time it contested as part of an alliance — a group of parties that team up to fight an election together, and share power afterward if they win enough seats between them — which won 160 seats in total, well past a majority.

A few numbers from that election stand out.

The closest race was Ilayangudi, Tamil Nadu, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 56 votes.

At the other extreme, Andipatti, Tamil Nadu was won by 37.6% of the vote.

Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — peaked in Peravurani, Tamil Nadu, reaching 83.2%.

The largest electorate was Villivakkam, Tamil Nadu, with 1,91,966 people registered to vote.

The state's assembly politics continued to be contested almost entirely between its two dominant Dravidian parties.