1985 Odisha Legislative Assembly election

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

1985 Odisha Legislative Assembly election[1]
1985
All 147 seats in the Odisha Legislative Assembly
74 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Biju Patnaik[2]
Party Indian National Congress JNP
Leader's seat Athagarh & Khurda Bhubaneswar
Seats won 117 21
Seat change 1 "New"
Popular vote 40,07,258 24,01,566
Percentage 51.08 32.03
Swing 3.3 "New"
Chief Minister before election

Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
Indian National Congress (I)

 Elected Chief Minister

Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
Indian National Congress

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 of147 seat 22 were reserved for Scheduled Castes, 33 for Scheduled Tribes and 92 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]
Political PartyFlagSeats
Contested		WonNet Change
in seats		 % of
Seats		 VotesVote %Change in
vote %
Indian National Congress 147117 179.5940,07,25851.08 3.3
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 271-0.6889,22515.97-
Bharatiya Janata Party 671 10.682,04,3465.66 1.43
Communist Party of India 271 30.682,59,50816.12 13.4
Janata Party 14021-14.2824,01,56632.03
Independent 3747N/A4.768,23,85011.54N/A
Total Seats147 ( )Voters1,53,37,200Turnout80,16,583 (52.27%)

References
  1. "Orissa 1985". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  2. "Orissa Assembly Election Results in 1985". www.elections.in. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  3. "Odisha Election Results: 2014 to 1971 Legislative Assembly". resultuniversity.com. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  4. odisha, chief minister of (2021-06-17). "list of former chief minister". Archived from the original on 2018-03-13.
  5. "Orissa 1985". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
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