1980 Odisha Legislative Assembly election

1980 Odisha Legislative Assembly election
All 147 seats in the Odisha Legislative Assembly; 74 seats needed for a majority
Chief Minister before election; Vacant; President's rule	Elected Chief Minister ; Janaki Ballabh Patnaik; Indian National Congress (I)

Elections to the 8th Odisha Legislative Assembly were held 1980.

Constituencies[edit]

The elections were held for 147 constituencies, of which 22 were reserved for Scheduled Castes, 34 for Scheduled Tribes and 91 unreserved.

Contesting parties[edit]

There are eight national parties CPI, INC(I), INC(U), BJP, JNP, CPM, JNP(SC) and JNP(SR), Two stateparties FBL and RSP two registered unrecognised party JKD and SUC and some Independent Politiciantook part in this assembly election. Indian National Congress (I)^[2] emerged as the winner by winning 118^[3] seats. Janaki Ballabh Patnaik become the Chief Minister and Sarat Deb become the Leader of Opposition in the 8th Orissa Assembly.

Results[edit]

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	Political Party	Flag	Seats Contested	Won	Net Change in seats	% of Seats	Votes	Vote %	Change in vote %
	Indian National Congress (I)		147	118	"NEW"	80.27	30,37,487	47.78	"NEW"
	Indian National Congress (U)		98	2	"NEW"	1.36	4,46,818	10.49	"NEW"
	Bharatiya Janata Party		28	0	NA	0	86,421	7.09	NA
	Communist Party of India		27	4	0	3.57	2,33,971	2.72	3.4
Template:Party name with colour		248	7	N/A	4.76	7,55,087	15.77	N/A
			Total Seats	147 ( 7)	Voters	1,39,09,115	Turnout	65,49,074 (47.08%)

References[edit]

↑ "Chief Minister of Odisha". Cm.odisha.gov.in. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
↑ "Orissa 1980 - Orissa - Election Commission of India". Eci.gov.in. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
↑ "Orissa Assembly Election Results in 1980". Elections.in. 2020-04-29. Retrieved 2021-05-13.

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[1] "Chief Minister of Odisha". Cm.odisha.gov.in. Retrieved 2021-05-13.

[2] "Orissa 1980 - Orissa - Election Commission of India". Eci.gov.in. Retrieved 2021-05-13.

[3] "Orissa Assembly Election Results in 1980". Elections.in. 2020-04-29. Retrieved 2021-05-13.

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