Elections to the Ninth

Odisha Legislative Assembly The Odisha Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Odisha state in India. The seat of the Legislative Assembly is at Bhubaneswar, the capital of the state. The Legislative Assembly comprises List of constituencies of Odisha ...

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

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three registered unrecognised party

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, JMM and SUC and some

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s took part in this assembly election. Indian National Congress emerged as the winner by winning 117 seats. Janaki Ballabh Patnaik become the

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of Odisha and was replaced by Hemananda Biswal for the last few months of this assembly tenure.

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become the Leader of Opposition in the 9th Orissa Assembly.

Results

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Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

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Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

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Communist Party of India The Communist Party of India (CPI) is a political party in India. The CPI considers the Foundation of the Communist Party of India, December 26, 1925 Cawnpore (Kanpur) conference as its foundation date. Between 1946 and 1951, the CPI led m ...

, , 27 , , 1 , , 3 , , 0.68 , , 2,59,508 , , 16.12 , , 13.4 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

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, , 140 , , 21 , , - , , 14.28 , , 24,01,566 , , 32.03 , , , - , , , 374 , , 7 , , N/A , , 4.76 , , 8,23,850 , , 11.54 , , N/A , - class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3, ! style="text-align:center;" , Total Seats !! 147 ( ) !! style="text-align:center;" , Voters !! 1,53,37,200 !! style="text-align:center;" , Turnout !! colspan = 2, 80,16,583 (52.27%)

Elected members

References

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