Telangana's debut election
What happened
Telangana's debut vote went to the regional party that had campaigned for its creation.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi won 63 of the 119 seats on offer.
That was enough for a majority, but only just — 3 seats above the number needed to govern alone.
Indian National Congress finished well behind, with 21 seats.
What changed
This was the state's debut election, with no earlier Telangana assembly to compare it to.
On average, close to 14.0 candidates contested every seat in this brand-new state.
The ballot also included NOTA — "None of the Above," a ballot option letting voters formally reject every candidate on offer — which drew 0.8% of the vote.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from the results stand out.
The tightest race was in Kalwakurthy, Telangana, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 78 votes.
Bahadurpura, Telangana saw the widest margin of the year, with the winner finishing 69.8% of the vote ahead of the runner-up.
Turnout, the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot, peaked in Palair, Telangana at 90.3%.
The most crowded electorate was Quthbullapur, Telangana, with 6,01,248 people on its rolls.
The backdrop
This vote took place just as the new state itself was coming into being.
The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 took effect on 2 June 2014, creating Telangana as India's 29th state from the Telangana region of undivided Andhra Pradesh, with Hyderabad serving as joint capital of both states for up to ten years.