Elections to the Third

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were held 1961.

Constituencies

The elections were held for 140 constituencies, of which 25 were reserved for Scheduled Castes, 29 for Scheduled Tribes and 86 unreserved.

Contesting parties

There are three national parties (the Communist Party of India,

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and the Praja Socialist Party), one state party ( Ganatantra Parishad), one registered unrecognised party (

Jharkhand Party The Jharkhand Party (JP) (Hindi:झापा ) is an oldest Political Party in India formed in the year of 5 March 1949 by Jaipal Singh Munda.Which grew out of the demand for a separate Jharkhand state. Jharkhand Party participated in Election ...

) and some

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s. All took part in this assembly election. The Congress party emerged again as the winner by winning 58% of the seats with a vote share of 43.28%. The post of

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saw successive replacements during this period. Biju Patnaik became the

Odisha Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of Sc ...

and remained in power till 1963, before being replaced by Biren Mitra, and finally by

Sadashiva Tripathy Sadashiva Tripathy (21 April 1910 – 9 September 1980) was an Indian politician, a leader of the Indian National Congress political party and the Chief Minister of Odisha The chief minister of Odisha, an Indian state, is the head of the Gov ...

Results

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Contested !! Won !! Net Change
in seats !! % of
Seats ! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in
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, , 140 , , 82 , , 26 , , 58.57 , , 12,69,000 , , 43.28 , , 5.02 , - , , , 121 , , 37 , , 14 , , 26.42 , , 6,55,099 , , 27.23 , , 1.51 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Praja Socialist Party , , 43 , , 10 , , 1 , , 7.14 , , 3,22,305 , , 30.43 , , 20.03 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of India , , 35 , , 4 , , 5 , , 3.57 , , 2,33,971 , , 27.32 , , 18.92 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 9 , , 0 , , "New" , , 0 , , 25,602 , , 13.57 , , "New" , - , , , 187 , , 7 , , 6 , , 5 , , 4,26,302 , , 20.89 , , N/A , - class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3, ! style="text-align:center;" , Total Seats !! 140 ( 0) !! style="text-align:center;" , Voters !! 85,51,743 !! style="text-align:center;" , Turnout !! colspan = 2, 31,27,245 (36.57%)

Elected members

References

{{Odisha elections State Assembly elections in Odisha 1961 elections in India