This election produced a hung house — a result where no single party wins enough seats to govern alone.

The Indian National Congress still won the most seats in West Bengal, 127 of the 280, short of the 141-seat majority mark.

Its runner-up, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), took 43 seats — the first time it had won any at all in this state.

This was also the first election held on a larger assembly map.

The boundaries had again gone through delimitation — the official redrawing of constituency boundaries, which happens every so often as India's population shifts.

The assembly grew from 252 seats to 280.

It was the INC's 4th time in a row winning the most seats here, yet for the first time it fell short of governing alone.

A few numbers from that count stand out.

The tightest finish: Bankura, West Bengal was decided by just 15 votes — the smallest margin, how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second, of any seat that year.

Suzapur, West Bengal had the widest winning margin of the year, at 67.1% of the vote.

Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — reached as high as 81.7% in Singur, West Bengal.

The largest electorate belonged to Dum Dum, West Bengal, with 1,03,632 registered voters.

The state's opposition, in other words, looked nothing like it had at the last election.

The opposition that broke through here had only existed as a separate, registered party since a national split a few years earlier.