1985 Orissa Legislative Assembly election

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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 Jharkhand Party, JMM and SUC and some Independent Politicians took part in this assembly election. Indian National Congress emerged as the winner by winning 117 seats. Janaki Ballabh Patnaik become the Chief Minister of Odisha and was replaced by Hemananda Biswal for the last few months of this assembly tenure. Biju Patnaik become the Leader of Opposition in the 9th Orissa Assembly.

Results

Source: Election Commission of India

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Party				Popular vote			Seats
Color	Flag	Name	Symbol	Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
Template:Party color cell	File:Indian National Congress Flag.svg	Indian National Congress	File:Hand INC.svg	4,007,258	51.08	Template:Increase 3.3	147	117	Template:Decrease 1
Template:Party color cell	File:Indian Election Symbol Chakra Haldhar.png	Janata Party	File:Indian Election Symbol Chakra Haldhar.png	2,401,566	30.61	Template:Increase 26.47	140	21	Template:Increase 18
Template:Party color cell	File:CPI-banner.svg	Communist Party of India	File:CPI symbol.svg	259,508	3.31	Template:Decrease 1.78	27	1	Template:Decrease 3
Template:Party color cell	File:BJP flag.svg	Bharatiya Janata Party	File:Lotos flower symbol.svg	204,346	2.60	Template:Increase 1.24	67	1	Template:Increase 1
Template:Party color cell	-	Independents	-	823,850	10.50	Template:Decrease 1.38	374	7	Template:Steady
Total				-	100	-	-	147	-
Valid Votes				7,845,050	51.15
Invalid Votes				171,533	-
Total Votes polled / turnout				8,016,583	52.57
Abstentation				7,320,617	-
Total No. of Electors				15,337,200

Elected members

District	AC. No.	Constituency	Member	Party
Mayurbhanj	1	Karanjia (ST)	Karunakar Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	2	Jashipur (ST)	Sambhunath Naik	Template:Party name with color
	3	Bahalda (ST)	Bhagey Gobardhan	Template:Full party name with color
	4	Rairangpur (ST)	Bhabendra Nath Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	5	Bangriposi (ST)	Kangoi Singh	Template:Full party name with color
	6	Kuliana (ST)	Saraswati Hembram	Template:Full party name with color
	7	Baripada	Prasanna Kumar Dash	Template:Full party name with color
	8	Baisinga (ST)	Pruthunath Kisku	Template:Full party name with color
	9	Khunta (ST)	Biram Murmu	Template:Full party name with color
	10	Udala (ST)	Ramaneswar Madhei	Template:Full party name with color
Baleshwar	11	Bhograi	Umarani Patra	Template:Full party name with color
	12	Jaleswar	Judisthir Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	13	Basta	Bhupal Chandra Mahapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	14	Balasore	Gopanarayan Das	Template:Full party name with color
	15	Soro	Jadunath Das Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	16	Simulia	Padma Lochan Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	17	Nilgiri	Sukumar Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	18	Bhandaripokhari (SC)	Panchanan Mandal	Template:Full party name with color
	19	Bhadrak	Jugal Kishore Pattanayak	Template:Full party name with color
	20	Dhamnagar	Jagannath Rout	Template:Full party name with color
	21	Chandbali (SC)	Netrananda Malik	Template:Full party name with color
	22	Basudevpur	Madhu Sadan Panigrahi	Template:Full party name with color
Cuttack	23	Sukinda	Sarata Rout	Template:Full party name with color
	24	Korai	Ramachandra Khuntia	Template:Full party name with color
	25	Jajpur (SC)	Jagannath Mallick	Template:Full party name with color
	26	Dharamsala	Kangali Charan Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	27	Barchana	Sitakanta Mahapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	28	Bari-Derabisi	Srikant Kumar Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	29	Binjharpur (SC)	Nabakishore Mallick	Template:Full party name with color
	30	Aul	Olagobinda Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	31	Patamundai (SC)	Ganeswar Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	32	Rajnagar	Nalinikanta Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	33	Kendrapara	Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	34	Patkura	Bijoy Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	35	Tirtol	Nityananda Samntaray	Template:Full party name with color
	36	Ersama	Krushna Chandra Swain	Template:Full party name with color
	37	Balikuda	Jyotish Chandra Das	Template:Full party name with color
	38	Jagatsinghpur (SC)	Kailash Chandra Mallik	Template:Full party name with color
	39	Kissannagar	Batakrishna Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	40	Mahanga	S. K. Matlub Ali	Template:Full party name with color
	41	Salepur (SC)	Mayadhar Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
	42	Gobindpur	Trilochan Kanungo	Template:Party name with color
	43	Cuttack Sadar	Dola Gobind Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	44	Cuttack City	Sayad Mustafiz Ahemad	Template:Full party name with color
	45	Choudwar	Rasananda Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
	46	Banki	Akshaya Kumar Pattanaik	Template:Full party name with color
	47	Athgarh	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	48	Baramba	Lalit Mohan Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
Puri	49	Balipatna (SC)	Raghab Chandra Seth	Template:Full party name with color
	50	Bhubaneswar	Biju Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	51	Jatni	Suresh Kumar Routray	Template:Full party name with color
	52	Pipli	Pradeep Maharathy	Template:Full party name with color
	53	Nimapara (SC)	Rabindra Kumar Sethy	Template:Full party name with color
	54	Kakatpur	Surendra Nath Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	55	Satyabadi	Rabindra Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	56	Puri	Braja Kishore Tripathy	Template:Full party name with color
	57	Brahmagiri	Gangadhar Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	58	Chilka	Debendranath Manasingh	Template:Full party name with color
	59	Khurda	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	60	Begunia	Kailash Chandra Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	61	Ranpur	Ramakanta Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	62	Nayagarh	Bhagabat Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	63	Khandapara	Bibhuti Bhusan Singh Mardaraj	Template:Full party name with color
	64	Daspalla	Harihar Karan	Template:Full party name with color
Ganjam	65	Jaganathprasad (SC)	Damburudhar Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
	66	Bhanjanagar	Umakanta Misra	Template:Full party name with color
	67	Suruda	Sarat Chandra Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	68	Aska	Raghaba Parida	Template:Full party name with color
	69	Kabisuryanagar	Radha Govinda Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
	70	Kodala	Ram Krushna Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	71	Khallikote	V. Sugnana Kumari Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	72	Chatrapur	Ashok Kumar Choudhury	Template:Full party name with color
	73	Hinjili	Udayanath Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	74	Gopalpur (SC)	Ghana Syama Behere	Template:Full party name with color
	75	Berhampur	Sibasankar Sahani	Template:Full party name with color
	76	Chikiti	Chintamani Dyan Samantara	Template:Full party name with color
	77	Mohana	Sarat Kumar Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	78	Ramagiri (ST)	Haladhar Karji	Template:Party name with color
	79	Parlakhemundi	Trinath Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
Koraput	80	Gunupur (ST)	Bhagirathi Gomango	Template:Full party name with color
	81	Bissam-cuttack (ST)	Dambaru Dhar Ulaka	Template:Full party name with color
	82	Rayagada (ST)	Ulaka Rama Chandra	Template:Full party name with color
	83	Lakshmipur (ST)	Anantaram Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	84	Pottangi (ST)	Chandrama Santha	Template:Full party name with color
	85	Koraput	Nrushimananda Brahma	Template:Full party name with color
	86	Malkangiri (SC)	Nadiabasi Biswas	Template:Party name with color
	87	Chitrakonda (ST)	Gangadhar Madi	Template:Full party name with color
	88	Kotpad (ST)	Basudev Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	89	Jeypore	Gupta Prasad Das	Template:Full party name with color
	90	Nowrangpur	Habibulla Khan	Template:Full party name with color
	91	Kodinga (ST)	Bhogabati Pujari	Template:Full party name with color
	92	Dabugam (ST)	Domburu Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	93	Umarkote (ST)	Parama Pujari	Template:Full party name with color
Kalahandi	94	Nawapara	Ghasi Ram Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	95	Khariar	Anup Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	96	Dharamgarh (SC)	Jugaram Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	97	Koksara	Rahas Bihari Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	98	Junagarh	Bikram Keshari Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	99	Bhawanipatna (SC)	Bhakta Charan Das	Template:Full party name with color
	100	Narla (ST)	Kumarmani Sabar	Template:Full party name with color
	101	Kesinga	Bhupinder Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Phulabani	102	Balliguda (ST)	Laxmikanta Mallik	Template:Full party name with color
	103	Udayagiri (ST)	Nagarjuna Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	104	Phulbani (SC)	Abhimanyu Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	105	Boudh	Sujit Kumar Padhi	Template:Full party name with color
Balangir	106	Titilagarh (SC)	Purna Chandra Mahananda	Template:Full party name with color
	107	Kantabanji	Chaitanya Pradhan	Template:Party name with color
	108	Patnagarh	Sushil Kumar Prushty	Template:Full party name with color
	109	Saintala	Radha Kanta Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	110	Loisingha	Balgopal Mishra	Template:Party name with color
	111	Bolangir	Mahammad Mujafar Hussain Khan	Template:Full party name with color
	112	Sonepur (SC)	Achyuta Biswal	Template:Full party name with color
	113	Binka	Chitaranjan Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	114	Birmaharajpur	Kartika Prasad Taria	Template:Full party name with color
Dhenkanal	115	Athmallik	Amarnath Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	116	Angul	Prafulla Misra	Template:Full party name with color
	117	Hindol (SC)	Rabinarayan Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	118	Dhenkanal	Nandini Satpathy	Template:Party name with color
	119	Gondia	Prafulla Kumar Bhanja	Template:Full party name with color
	120	Kamakhyanagar	Prasan Pattanayak	Template:Full party name with color
	121	Pallahara	Bibhudhendra Pratap Das	Template:Full party name with color
	122	Talcher (SC)	Bhajaman Behara	Template:Full party name with color
Sambalpur	123	Padampur	Satyabhusan Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
	124	Melchhamunda	Prakashchandra Debta	Template:Full party name with color
	125	Bijepur	Nikunja Bihari Singh	Template:Full party name with color
	126	Bhatli (SC)	Mohan Nag	Template:Full party name with color
	127	Bargarh	Jadummani Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	128	Sambalpur	Shraddhakar Supakar	Template:Full party name with color
	129	Brajarajnagar	Prasannakumar Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	130	Jharsuguda	Birendra Pandey	Template:Full party name with color
	131	Laikera (ST)	Hemananda Biswal	Template:Full party name with color
	132	Kuchinda (ST)	Jagateshwar Mirdha	Template:Full party name with color
	133	Rairakhol (SC)	Abhimanyu Kumar	Template:Full party name with color
	134	Deogarh	Raj Kishore Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
Sundergarh	135	Sundargarh	Bharatendra Sekher Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	136	Talsara (ST)	Gajadhar Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	137	Rajgangpur (ST)	Mangala Kisan	Template:Full party name with color
	138	Biramitrapur (ST)	Remish Kerketta	Template:Full party name with color
	139	Rourkela	Dilip Ray	Template:Full party name with color
	140	Raghunathpali (ST)	Frida Topno	Template:Full party name with color
	141	Bonai (ST)	Basanta Kumar Singh Dandpat	Template:Full party name with color
Keonjhar	142	Champua (ST)	Dhanurjay Laguri	Template:Full party name with color
	143	Patna	Hrushikesh Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	144	Keonjhar (ST)	Chhotaray Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	145	Telkoi (ST)	Pranaballav Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	146	Ramchandrapur	Niranjan Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	147	Anandapur (SC)	Jayadev Jena	Template:Full party name with color