Himachal Pradesh is famous for oscillating between Congress and BJP, as no party has been able to secure consecutive victories since Virbhadra Singh led Congress in 1985.
In 2013, the Congress party in Madhya Pradesh asked the Election Commission to "hide" lotus ponds in the state's Mahakoshal, Malwa, and Bundelkhand regions so that voters are not drawn unfairly to the BJP symbol.
While BJP won a seat in Bihar, Haryana, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh, RJD won in Bihar, Shiv Sena won in Maharashtra, and TRS won the byelection in Telangana.