Trends from counting of votes on Tuesday showed BJP way ahead of Congress in Haryana,while JKN showed a stupendous performance in J&K. Get all the updates here on Livemint.

The vote share of the BJP and Congress turned out to be close even though the saffron party won the elections with a simple majority. The BJP received 39.94 per cent votes, while the Congress managed 39.

A statistical analysis of the results besides these headline numbers shows a more comprehensive story of a growing and deepening BJP footprint in the state. Here is how. A good way to measure whether or not a party is a force to reckon with in a state is to look at the number of constituencies where it finishes either first or second.