1961 Odisha Legislative Assembly election

1961 Odisha Legislative Assembly election
	1961
All 140 seats in the Odisha Legislative Assembly; 71 seats needed for a majority
Chief Minister before election; Vacant; President's rule	Elected Chief Minister ; Biju Patnaik; INC

Elections to the Third Odisha Legislative Assembly were held 1961.[1]

Constituencies

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

There are three national parties Communist Party of India, Congress and Praja Socialist Party, one state party All India Ganatantra Parishad,one registered unrecognised party Jharkhand Party and some Independent Politiciantook part in this assembly election. Congress party emerged again as the winner by winning 58% of the seats with a vote share of 43.28%.[2] The post of Chief Minister saw successive replacements during this period.Biju Patnaik became the Chief Minister of Odisha and remained in power till 1963, before being replaced by Biren Mitra, and finally by Sadashiva Tripathy.

Summary of results of the 1961 Odisha Legislative Assembly election[3]
Political Party	Seats Contested	Won	Net Change in seats	% of Seats	Votes	Vote %	Change in vote %
Indian National Congress	140	82	26	58.57	12,69,000	43.28	5.02
All India Ganatantra Parishad	121	37	14	26.42	6,55,099	27.23	1.51
Praja Socialist Party	43	10	1	7.14	3,22,305	30.43	20.03
Communist Party of India	35	4	5	3.57	2,33,971	27.32	18.92
Jharkhand Party	9	0	"New"	0	25,602	13.57	"New"
Independent	187	7	6	5	4,26,302	20.89	N/A
	Total Seats	140 ( 0)	Voters	85,51,743	Turnout	31,27,245 (36.57%)

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