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

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]

	Political Party	Flag	Seats Contested	Won	Net Change in seats	% of Seats	Votes	Vote %	Change in vote %
	Indian National Congress		147	117	1	79.59	40,07,258	51.08	3.3
	Bharatiya Janata Party		67	1	1	0.68	2,04,346	5.66	1.43
	Communist Party of India		27	1	3	0.68	2,59,508	16.12	13.4
	Janata Party		140	21	-	14.28	24,01,566	32.03
	Independent		374	7	N/A	4.76	8,23,850	11.54	N/A
			Total Seats	147 ( )	Voters	1,53,37,200	Turnout	80,16,583 (52.27%)

Elected members

References