1967 Orissa Legislative Assembly election

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Elections to the Fourth Orissa Legislative Assembly were held on 21 February 1967.

Constituencies

The elections were held for 140 constituencies, of which 22 were reserved for Scheduled Castes, 34 for Scheduled Tribes and 84 unreserved.

Contesting parties

There were seven national parties:-

CPI, CPM, Congress, Praja Socialist Party, Samyukta Socialist Party, Swatantra Party, Bharatiya Jan Sangh,

One regional party Orissa Jana Congress (OJC) and some Independent Politicians took part in this assembly election.

Results

Source: Election Commission of India

Party				Popular vote			Seats
Color	Flag	Name	Symbol	Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
Template:Party color cell		Indian National Congress		1,235,149	30.66%	Template:Decrease 12.62	141	31	Template:Decrease 51
Template:Party color cell		Swatantra PartyTemplate:Efn		909,421	22.58%	Template:Increase 0.24Template:Efn	101	49	Template:Increase 12Template:Efn
Template:Party color cell		Orissa Jana Congress		542,734	13.47%	(new)	47	26	(new)
Template:Party color cell		Praja Socialist Party		493,750	12.26%	Template:Increase 1.27	33	21	Template:Increase 11
Template:Party color cell		Communist Party of India		211,999	5.26%	Template:Decrease 2.72	31	7	Template:Increase 3
Template:Party color cell		Samyukta Socialist Party		61,426	1.52%	(new)	9	2	(new)
Template:Party color cell		Communist Party of India (Marxist)		46,597	1.16%	(new)	10	1	(new)
Template:Party color cell	-	Independents	-	505,394	12.55%	Template:Decrease 1.99	212	3	Template:Decrease 3
Total				-	-	-	-	140	-
Valid Votes				4,028,258	40.80
Invalid Votes				320,580	-
Total Votes polled / turnout				4,348,838	44.05
Abstentation				5,524,219	-
Total No. of Electors				9,873,057

Elected members

District	#	Constituency Name	Winner	Party
Mayurbhanj	1	Karanjia (ST)	Prafulla Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	2	Jashipur (ST)	Durga Charan Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	3	Rairangpur (ST)	Kartik Chandra Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	4	Bahalda (ST)	Sonaram Soren	Template:Full party name with color
	5	Bangriposi (ST)	Radhamohan Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	6	Baripada	Santosh Kumar Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
	7	Muruda (ST)	Sakila Soren	Template:Full party name with color
	8	Baisinga (ST)	Prasanna Kumar Dash	Template:Full party name with color
	9	Khunta	Harachand Hansada	Template:Full party name with color
	10	Udala (ST)	Manmohan Tudu	Template:Full party name with color
Balasore	11	Bhograi	Pyarimohan Das	Template:Full party name with color
	12	Jaleswar	Prasanna Kumar Paul	Template:Full party name with color
	13	Basta	Chintamani Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	14	Balasore	Rabindra Mohan Das	Template:Full party name with color
	15	Nilgiri	Banamali Das	Template:Full party name with color
	16	Sore	Haraprasad Mahapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	17	Simulia (SC)	Uchhab Charan Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	18	Bhadrak	Nityananda Mahapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	19	Dhamnagar	Satyabhama Dei	Template:Full party name with color
	20	Chandabali (SC)	Manmohan Das	Template:Full party name with color
	21	Basudebpur	Harekrushna Mahatab	Template:Full party name with color
Cuttack	22	Sukinda	Anandamanjari Debi	Template:Full party name with color
	23	Dharmasala	Paramananda Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	24	Barchana	Jagannath Das	Template:Full party name with color
	25	Binjharpur	Baishnab Charan Mallick	Template:Full party name with color
	26	Jajpur (West)	Prafulla Chandra Ghadei	Template:Full party name with color
	27	Jajpur (East) (SC)	Santanu Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	28	Aul	Dibakarnath Sharma	Template:Full party name with color
	29	Patamundai (SC)	Biswanath Mallick	Template:Full party name with color
	30	Rajanagar	Raja Sailendra Narayan Bhanja Deo	Template:Party name with color
	31	Kendrapara	Sarojakanta Kanungo	Template:Full party name with color
	32	Patkura	Chakradhar Satpathy	Template:Full party name with color
	33	Tirtol	Nishamani Khuntia	Template:Full party name with color
	34	Ersama	Lokanath Choudhury	Template:Full party name with color
	35	Balikuda	Baikunthanath Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	36	Jagatsinghpur (SC)	Kanduri Charan Mallik	Template:Full party name with color
	37	Gobindpur	Muralidhar Kanungo	Template:Full party name with color
	38	Salepur	Surendranath Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	39	Mahanga	Biraja Prasad Ray	Template:Full party name with color
	40	Chaudwar	Akulananda Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	41	Cuttack City	Biren Mitra	Template:Full party name with color
	42	Cuttack Sadar (SC)	Sukadeva Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	43	Banki	Jogesh Chandra Rout	Template:Party name with color
	44	Athagarh	Pabitra Mohan Pradhan	Template:Party name with color
	45	Baramba	Pratap Chandra Pattanaik	Template:Full party name with color
Puri	46	Bhubaneswar	Harekrushna Mahatab	Template:Full party name with color
	47	Balipatna (SC)	Harihar Bhoi	Template:Full party name with color
	48	Pipili	Banamali Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	49	Nimapara (SC)	Nilamani Sethy	Template:Full party name with color
	50	Kakatapur	Gatikrushna Swain	Template:Full party name with color
	51	Satyabadi	Gangadhar Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	52	Puri	Harihar Bahinipati	Template:Full party name with color
	53	Bramhagiri	Brajamohan Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	54	Banpur	Raghunath Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	55	Khurda	Raja Birkishore Dev	Template:Full party name with color
	56	Begunia	Gangadhar Paikaray	Template:Full party name with color
	57	Khandapara	Raja Saheb Harihar Singh Mardaraj Bhramarabara Roy	Template:Full party name with color
	58	Daspalla (SC)	Bhabagrahi Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	59	Nayagarh	Achyutananda Mohanty	Template:Party name with color
	60	Ranpur	Brajendra Chandra Bir. Baj. Narendra Mohapatra Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
Ganjam	61	Jaganathprasad (SC)	Udayanath Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	62	Bhanjanagar	Dinabandhu Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	63	Suruda	Ananta Narayan Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	64	Aska	Harihar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	65	Kabisuryanagar	Dandapani Swain	Template:Full party name with color
	66	Kodala	Banamali Maharana	Template:Full party name with color
	67	Khallikote	Narayan Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
	68	Chatrapur	Lakhmana Mahapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	69	Hinjili	Brundaban Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	70	Dura (SC)	Mohan Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	71	Berhampur	Binayak Acharya	Template:Full party name with color
	72	Chikati	Dibakar Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	73	Mohana (ST)	Tareni Sardar	Template:Full party name with color
	74	Ramagiri (ST)	Arjuna Singh	Template:Full party name with color
	75	Paralakhemundi	N. Naikulu Kurma	Template:Full party name with color
Koraput	76	Gunupur (ST)	Bhagirathi Gomango	Template:Full party name with color
	77	Bissam Cuttack (ST)	Biswanath Choudhury	Template:Full party name with color
	78	Rayagada (ST)	Anantaram Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	79	Narayanpatna (ST)	Bidika Mallana	Template:Full party name with color
	80	Nandapur (ST)	Malu Santha	Template:Full party name with color
	81	Malkangiri (ST)	Gangadhar Madhi	Template:Full party name with color
	82	Jeypore	N. Ramseshaiah	Template:Full party name with color
	83	Kotpad (ST)	Surjya Narayan Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	84	Nowrangpur	Sadasiba Tripathy	Template:Full party name with color
	85	Kodinga (SC)	Jhitru Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	86	Dabugam (ST)	Dombaru Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	87	Umarkote (ST)	Rabisingh Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
Kalahandi	88	Nawapara (ST)	Onkar Singh	Template:Full party name with color
	89	Khariar	Anupa Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	90	Dharmagarh (SC)	Lochan Dhangada Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	91	Koksara	Raghunath Praharaj	Template:Full party name with color
	92	Junagarh	Maheswar Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	93	Bhawanipatna (SC)	Dayanidhi Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	94	Narla (ST)	Anchal Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	95	Kesinga	Bhagaban Bhoi	Template:Full party name with color
Phulbani	96	Udayagiri (ST)	Gopal Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	97	Balliguda (ST)	Naresh Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	98	Phulbani (ST)	Barada Prasanna Kanhar	Template:Full party name with color
	99	Baudh	Himanshu Sekhar Padhi	Template:Full party name with color
Balangir	100	Sonepur	Nilambar Raiguru	Template:Full party name with color
	101	Binka	Narasingh Charan Misra	Template:Full party name with color
	102	Tusra	Radhamohan Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	103	Bolangir	Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	104	Loisinga	Nandakishore Misra	Template:Full party name with color
	105	Patnagarh	Ainthu Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color
	106	Saintala	Ramesh Chandra Singh Bhoi	Template:Full party name with color
	107	Titilagarh (SC)	Achyutananda Mahananda	Template:Full party name with color
	108	Kantabanji (SC)	Lokanath Rai	Template:Full party name with color
Sambalpur	109	Padampur	Bir Bikramaditya Singh Bariha	Template:Full party name with color
	110	Melchhamunda	Birendra Kumar Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color
	111	Bijepur (SC)	Mohan Nag	Template:Full party name with color
	112	Bhatli	Saraswati Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	113	Bargarh	Bharat Chandra Hota	Template:Full party name with color
	114	Sambalpur	Banamali Babu	Template:Full party name with color
	115	Brajarajnagar	Prasanna Kumar Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	116	Jharsuguda	Murari Prasad Misra	Template:Full party name with color
	117	Laikera (ST)	Lal Rajendra Singh	Template:Full party name with color
	118	Kuchinda (ST)	Kanhai Singh	Template:Full party name with color
	119	Rairakhol (SC)	Bhikhari Suna	Template:Full party name with color
	120	Deogarh	Bhanuganga Tribhuban Deb	Template:Full party name with color
Sundargarh	121	Sundargarh	Harihar Patel	Template:Full party name with color
	122	Talsara (ST)	Gangadhar Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	123	Rajgangpur (ST)	Premchand Bhagat	Template:Full party name with color
	124	Bisra (ST)	Krushna Chandra Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	125	Rourkela	Rajkishore Samantarai	Template:Full party name with color
	126	Bonai (ST)	Hemendra Prasad Mahapatra	Template:Full party name with color
Keonjhar	127	Champua (ST)	Kshetra Mohan Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	128	Patna (ST)	Ramaray Munda	Template:Full party name with color
	129	Keonjhar (ST)	Govinda Chandra Munda	Template:Full party name with color
	130	Telkoi (ST)	Bhagirathi Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	131	Ramachandrapur	Raj Ballabh Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	132	Anandpur (SC)	Bhubanananda Jena	Template:Full party name with color
Dhenkanal	133	Pallahara	Pabitra Mohan Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	134	Kamakhyanagar	Brundaban Tripathy	Template:Full party name with color
	135	Gondia	Haldhar Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	136	Dhenkanal	Ratnaprava Devi	Template:Full party name with color
	137	Talcher (SC)	Kumar Chandra Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	138	Chhendipada (SC)	Nabaghan Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	139	Angul	Kumud Chandra Singh	Template:Full party name with color
	140	Athamallik	Surendra Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color

Govt. formation

Swatantra Party emerged as the winner by winning 49 seats It is first time in India that Indian National Congress lost the election in a close fight with Swatantra Party in the state. Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo become Chief Minister by forming a coalition government with OJC. He was the first non-Congress C.M. of Orissa. Rajendra Narayana Singh Deo was the Chief Minister of Orissa till 1971.