1985 Odisha Legislative Assembly election

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1985 Odisha Legislative Assembly election [1]
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  1980 1985 1990  

All 147 seats in the Odisha Legislative Assembly
74 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
  Janaki Ballabh Patnaik.JPG Biju-Patnaik.jpg
Leader Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Biju Patnaik [2]
Party Indian National Congress JNP
Leader's seat Athagarh & Khurda Bhubaneswar
Seats won11721
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 1"New"
Popular vote40,07,25824,01,566
Percentage51.0832.03
SwingIncrease2.svg 3.3"New"

Chief Minister before election

Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
Indian National Congress (I)

Contents

Elected Chief Minister

Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
Indian National Congress

Elections to the Ninth Odisha Legislative Assembly were held in 1985.

Constituencies

The elections were held for 145 instead of 147 constituencies as a result of some candidates death contesting in Kakatpur and Keonjhar constituency. Out of 147 seats, 22 were reserved for Scheduled Castes, 33 for Scheduled Tribes and 92 for unreserved seats.

Contesting parties

There are seven national parties CPI, INC, BJP, JNP, CPM, ICS and LKD, One state party ICJ three registered unrecognised party JKD, JMM and SUC and some Independent Politiciantook part in this assembly election. Indian National Congress emerged as the winner by winning 117 [3] seats. Janaki Ballabh Patnaik become the Chief Minister of Odisha and was replaced by Hemananda Biswal [4] for the last few months of this assembly tenure. Biju Patnaik become the Leader of Opposition in the 9th Orissa Assembly.

Results

Summary of results of the 1985 Odisha Legislative Assembly election [5]
India Odisha Legislative Assembly 1985.svg
Political PartyFlagSeats
Contested
WonNet Change
in seats
 % of
Seats
VotesVote %Change in
vote %
Indian National Congress 147117Decrease2.svg179.5940,07,25851.08Increase2.svg 3.3
Bharatiya Janata Party 671Increase2.svg 10.682,04,3465.66Decrease2.svg 1.43
Communist Party of India 271Decrease2.svg 30.682,59,50816.12Increase2.svg 13.4
Janata Party 14021-14.2824,01,56632.03
Independent 3747N/A4.768,23,85011.54N/A
Total Seats147 (Steady2.svg )Voters1,53,37,200Turnout80,16,583 (52.27%)

Elected members

ConstituencyReserved for
(SC/ST/None)
MemberParty
KaranjiaSTKarunakar Naik Indian National Congress
JashipurSTSambhunath Naik Independent
BahaldaSTBahgey Gobardhan Janata Party
RairangpurSTBhabendra Nath Majhi Indian National Congress
BangriposiSTKangoi Singh Indian National Congress
KulianaST Saraswati Hembram Indian National Congress
BaripadaNonePrasanna Kumar Dash Indian National Congress
BaisingaSTPruthunath Kisku Indian National Congress
KhuntaSTBiram Murmu Indian National Congress
UdalaSTRamaneswar Madhei Indian National Congress
BhograiNoneUmarani Patra Indian National Congress
JaleswarNoneJudisthir Jena Indian National Congress
BastaNoneBhupal Chandra Mahapatra Indian National Congress
BalasoreNoneGopanarayan Das Indian National Congress
SoroNoneJadunath Das Mohapatra Indian National Congress
SimuliaNonePadamalochan Panda Indian National Congress
NilgiriNoneSukumar Nayak Indian National Congress
BhandaripokhariSCPanchanan Mandal Indian National Congress
BhadrakNoneJugal Kishore Pattanayak Indian National Congress
DhamnagarNoneJagannath Rout Indian National Congress
ChandbaliSCNetrananda Malik Indian National Congress
BasudevpurNoneMadhu Sadan Panigrahi Indian National Congress
SukindaNoneSarata Rout Indian National Congress
KoraiNoneRama Chandra Khuntia Indian National Congress
JajpurSCJagannath Mallick Janata Party
DharamsalaNoneKangali Charan Panda Indian National Congress
BarchanaNoneSitakanta Mahapatra Indian National Congress
Bari-derabisiNoneSrikanta Kumar Jena Janata Party
BinjharpurSCNabakishore Mallick Indian National Congress
AulNoneOlagobinda Nayak Indian National Congress
PatamundaiSCGaneswar Behera Indian National Congress
RajnagarNoneNalinikanta Mohanty Janata Party
KendraparaNoneBhagabat Prasad Mohanty Indian National Congress
PatkuraNoneBijoy Mohaptra Janata Party
TirtolNoneNityananda Samanaray Indian National Congress
ErsamaNoneKrushna Chandra Swain Indian National Congress
BalikudaNoneJyotish Chandra Das Indian National Congress
JagatsinghpurSCKailash Chandra Mallik Indian National Congress
KissannagarNoneBatakrishna Jena Indian National Congress
MahangaNoneS. K. Matlub Ali Indian National Congress
SalepurSCMayadhar Sethi Indian National Congress
GobindpurNoneTrilochan Kanungo Independent
Cuttack SadarNoneDola Gobind Pradhan Indian National Congress
Cuttack CityNoneSayad Mustafiz Ahemad Janata Party
ChoudwarNoneRasananda Sahu Indian National Congress
BankiNoneAkshaya Kumar Pattanaik Indian National Congress
AthgarhNoneJanaki Ballav Patnaik Indian National Congress
BarambaNoneLalit Mohan Mohanty Indian National Congress
BalipatnaSCRaghab Chandra Seth Indian National Congress
BhubaneswarNoneBiju Patnaik Janata Party
JatniNoneSuresh Kumar Routary Indian National Congress
PipliNonePradeep Kumar Maharathy Janata Party
NimaparaSCRabindra Kumar Sethy Indian National Congress
KakatpurNoneSurendranath Naik Janata Party
SatyabadiNoneRabindra Kumar Das Indian National Congress
PuriNoneBrajakishor Tripathy Janata Party
BrahmagiriNoneGangadhar Mohapatra Indian National Congress
ChilkaNoneDebendranath Manasingh Indian National Congress
KhurdaNoneJanaki Ballav Pattnaik Indian National Congress
BeguniaNoneKailash Chandra Mohapatra Indian National Congress
RanpurNoneRamakanta Mishra Indian National Congress
NayagarhNoneBhagabat Behera Janata Party
KhandaparaNoneBibhuti Bhusan Singh Mardaraj Indian National Congress
DaspallaNoneHarihar Karan Indian National Congress
JaganathprasadSCDamburudhar Sethi Indian National Congress
BhanjanagarNoneUmakanta Misra Indian National Congress
SurudaNoneSarat Chandra Panda Indian National Congress
AskaNoneRaghaba Parida Indian National Congress
KavisuryanagarNoneRadha Govinda Sahu Indian National Congress
KodalaNoneRam Krishna Pattnaik Janata Party
KhallikoteNoneV. Sugnani Kumari Deo Janata Party
ChatrapurNoneAshok Kumar Choudhury Indian National Congress
HinjiliNoneUdayanath Nayak Indian National Congress
GopalpurSCGhana Syama Behere Indian National Congress
BerhampurNoneSibasankar Sahani Indian National Congress
ChikatiNoneChintamani Dayan Samantara Indian National Congress
MohanaNoneSarat Kumar Jena Indian National Congress
RamagiriSTHawadhar Karji Independent
ParlakhemundiNoneTrinath Sahu Indian National Congress
GunupurSTBhagirathi Gomango Indian National Congress
Bissam-cuttackSTDambaru Dhar Ulaka Indian National Congress
RayagadaSTUlaka Ramo Chandra Indian National Congress
LakshmipurSTAnantaram Majhi Indian National Congress
PottangiNone Chandrama Saunta Indian National Congress
KoraputNoneNrushimananda Brahma Indian National Congress
MalkangiriSCNadiabasi Biswas Independent
ChitrakondaSTGangadhar Madi Indian National Congress
KotpadSTBasudev Majhi Indian National Congress
JeyporeNoneGupta Prasad Das Indian National Congress
NowrangpurNoneHabibulla Khan Indian National Congress
KodingaSTBhogabati Pujari Indian National Congress
DabugamSTDomburu Majhi Indian National Congress
UmarkoteSTPorama Pujari Indian National Congress
NawaparaNoneGhasi Ram Majhi Janata Party
KhariarNoneAnup Singh Deo Indian National Congress
DharamgarhSCJugaram Behera Indian National Congress
KoksaraNoneRahas Bihari Behera Indian National Congress
JunagarhNoneBikram Keshari Deo Janata Party
BhawanipatnaSCBhaktacharan Das Janata Party
NarlaSTKumarmani Sabar Indian National Congress
KesingaNoneBhupinder Singh Indian National Congress
BalligudaSTLaxmikanta Mallik Indian National Congress
UdayagiriSTNagarjun Pradhan Indian National Congress
PhulbaniSCAbhimanyu Behera Indian National Congress
BoudhNoneSujit Kumar Padhi Indian National Congress
TitilagarhSCPurna Chandra Mahananda Indian National Congress
KantabanjiNoneChaitanya Pradhan Independent
PatnagarhNoneSushil Kumar Prushty Indian National Congress
SaintalaNoneRadha Kanta Panda Indian National Congress
LoisinghaNoneBalgopal Mishra Independent
BolangirNoneMahammad Mujafar Hussain Khan Indian National Congress
SonepurSCAcgyuta Biswal Indian National Congress
BinkaNoneChitiaranjan Mishra Indian National Congress
BirmaharajpurNoneKartika Prasad Taria Indian National Congress
AthmallikNoneAmaranath Pradhan Indian National Congress
AngulNonePrafulla Misra Indian National Congress
HindolSCRabinarayan Naik Indian National Congress
DhenkanalNoneNandini Satapathy Independent
GondiaNonePrafulla Kumar Bhanja Indian National Congress
KamakhyanagarNonePrasan Pattanayak Bharatiya Janata Party
PallaharaNoneBibhudhendra Pratap Das Indian National Congress
TalcherSCBhajaman Behera Indian National Congress
PadampurNoneSatyabhusan Sahu Indian National Congress
MelchhamundaNonePrakashchandra Debta Indian National Congress
BijepurNoneNikunja Bihari Singh Janata Party
BhatliSCMohan Nag Indian National Congress
BargarhNoneJadummani Pradhan Indian National Congress
SambalpurNoneShadhakar Sopakar Indian National Congress
BrajarajnagarNonePrasannakumar Panda Communist Party of India
JharsugudaNoneBirendra Pandey Indian National Congress
LaikeraSTHemananda Biswal Indian National Congress
KuchindaSTJagateshwar Mirdha Indian National Congress
RairakholSCAbhimanyu Kumar Indian National Congress
DeogarhNoneRaj Kishore Pradhan Indian National Congress
SundargarhNoneBharatendra Sekher Deo Janata Party
TalsaraSTGajadhar Majhi Indian National Congress
RajgangpurSTMangala Kisan Janata Party
BiramitrapurSTRemish Kerketta Indian National Congress
RourkelaNoneDillip Kumar Ray Janata Party
RaghunathpaliSTFrida Topno Indian National Congress
BonaiSTBasanta Kumar Singh Dandpat Indian National Congress
ChampuaSTDhanurjay Laguri Indian National Congress
PatnaSTHrusikesh Naik Indian National Congress
KeonjharSTChhotaray Majhi Janata Party
TelkoiSTPranaballav Naik Indian National Congress
RamchandrapurNoneNiranjan Patnaik Indian National Congress
AnandapurSCJayadev Jena Indian National Congress

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