1995 Orissa Legislative Assembly election

Elections to the Odisha Legislative Assembly were held in March 1995 to elect members of the 147 constituencies in Odisha, India. The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats and Janaki Ballabh Patnaik was appointed as the Chief Minister of Odisha. The number of constituencies was set as 147 by the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.

Result

Source: Election Commission of India

File:India Odisha Legislative Assembly 1995.svg
Party				Popular vote			Seats
	Flag	Name	Symbol	Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
Template:Party color cell	File:Indian National Congress Flag.svg	Indian National Congress	File:Hand INC.svg	6,180,237	39.08	Template:Increase9.3	146	80	Template:Increase70
Template:Party color cell	File:Janata Dal symbol.svg	Janata Dal	File:Janata Dal symbol.svg	5,60,0853	35.41	Template:Decrease18.28	146	46	Template:Decrease46
Template:Party color cell	File:BJP flag.svg	Bharatiya Janata Party	File:Lotos flower symbol.svg	1,245,996	7.88	Template:Increase4.32	144	9	Template:Increase7
Template:Party color cell	File:CPI-banner.svg	Communist Party of India	File:CPI symbol.svg	2,71,199	1.71	Template:Decrease1.27	21	1	Template:Decrease4
Template:Party color cell	File:Jharkhand Mukti Morcha flag.svg	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	File:Indian Election Symbol Bow And Arrow.svg	307,517	1.94	Template:Increase1.61	16	4	Template:Increase4
Template:Party color cell	-	Jharkhand People's Party	File:Pot Symbol.png	27,494	0.17	(new)	4	1	(new)
Template:Party color cell	-	Independents	-	1,661,485	10.51	Template:Increase3.15	682	6	Template:Increase2
Total				-	100	-	-	147	-
Valid Votes				15,815,009	71.64
Invalid Votes				440,548	-
Total Votes polled / turnout				16,255,557	73.64
Abstentation				5,820,218	-
Total No. of Electors				22,075,775

Elected members

District	AC. No.	Constituency	Member	Party
Mayurbhanj	1	Karanjia (ST)	Raghunath Hembram	Template:Full party name with color
	2	Jashipur (ST)	Sambhunath Naik	Template:Party name with color
	3	Bahalda (ST)	Khelarama Mahali	Template:Full party name with color
	4	Rairangpur (ST)	Laxman Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	5	Bangriposi (ST)	Ajen Murmu	Template:Full party name with color
	6	Kuliana (ST)	Sudam Marndi	Template:Full party name with color
	7	Baripada	Prasanna Kumar Dash	Template:Full party name with color
	8	Baisinga (ST)	Pruthunatha Kisku	Template:Full party name with color
	9	Khunta (ST)	Saraswati Hembram	Template:Full party name with color
	10	Udala (ST)	Rabaneswara Madhei	Template:Full party name with color
Balasore	11	Bhograi	Kamala Das	Template:Full party name with color
	12	Jaleswar	Jaynarayana Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	13	Basta	Raghunath Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	14	Balasore	Arun Dey	Template:Party name with color
	15	Soro	Kartika Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	16	Simulia	Padma Lochan Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	17	Nilgiri	Akhyay Kumar Acharya	Template:Full party name with color
Bhadrak	18	Bhandaripokhari (SC)	Arjun Charan Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
	19	Bhadrak	Prafulla Samal	Template:Full party name with color
	20	Dhamnagar	Jagannath Rout	Template:Full party name with color
	21	Chandbali (SC)	Netrananda Mallik	Template:Full party name with color
	22	Basudevpur	Bijayshree Routray	Template:Full party name with color
Jajpur	23	Sukinda	Prafulla Chandra Ghadai	Template:Full party name with color
	24	Korai	Ashok Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	25	Jajpur (SC)	Suryamani Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	26	Dharamsala	Kalpataru Das	Template:Full party name with color
	27	Barchana	Amar Prasad Satpathy	Template:Full party name with color
	28	Bari-Derabisi	Chinmaya Prasada Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	29	Binjharpur (SC)	Arjuna Das	Template:Full party name with color
Kendrapara	30	Aul	Dola Gobinda 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
Jagatsinghpur	35	Tirtol	Basanta Kumar Biswal	Template:Full party name with color
	36	Ersama	Bijaya Kumar Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	37	Balikuda	Lalatendu Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	38	Jagatsinghpur (SC)	Bishnu Charan Das	Template:Full party name with color
Cuttack	39	Kissannagar	Yudhisthir Das	Template:Full party name with color
	40	Mahanga	Sk. Matlub Alli	Template:Full party name with color
	41	Salepur (SC)	Rabindra Kumar Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	42	Gobindpur	Panchanan Kanungo	Template:Full party name with color
	43	Cuttack Sadar	Bijay Lakshmi Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color
	44	Cuttack City	Samir Dey	Template:Full party name with color
	45	Choudwar	Kahnu Charan Lenka	Template:Full party name with color
	46	Banki	Pravat Tripathy	Template:Full party name with color
	47	Athgarh	Ranendra Pratap Swain	Template:Full party name with color
	48	Baramba	Debiprasad Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
Khurda	49	Balipatna (SC)	Hrushikesh Nayak	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
Puri	52	Pipli	Yudhistir Samantaray	Template:Full party name with color
	53	Nimapara (SC)	Rabindra Kumar Sethy	Template:Full party name with color
	54	Kakatpur	Baikunthanath Swain	Template:Full party name with color
	55	Satyabadi	Prasad Kumar Harichandan	Template:Full party name with color
	56	Puri	Maheswar Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	57	Brahmagiri	Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
Khurda	58	Chilka	Debendra Nath Mansingh	Template:Full party name with color
	59	Khurda	Prasanna Kumar Patasani	Template:Full party name with color
	60	Begunia	Harihara Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color
Nayagarh	61	Ranpur	Ramakanta Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	62	Nayagarh	Sitakanta Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	63	Khandapara	Bibhuti Bhusan Singh Mardaraj	Template:Full party name with color
	64	Daspalla	Rudra Madhab Ray	Template:Full party name with color
Ganjam	65	Jaganathprasad (SC)	Madhaba Nanda Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	66	Bhanjanagar	Bikram Keshari Arukha	Template:Full party name with color
	67	Suruda	Ananta Narayan Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	68	Aska	Usha Rani Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	69	Kabisuryanagar	Harihar Swain	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	Daitari Behara	Template:Full party name with color
	73	Hinjili	Udayanath Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	74	Gopalpur (SC)	Rama Chandra Sethy	Template:Full party name with color
	75	Berhampur	Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	76	Chikiti	Chintamani Dyan Samantara	Template:Party name with color
Gajapati	77	Mohana	Surjya Narayan Patro	Template:Full party name with color
	78	Ramagiri (ST)	Haladhar Karjee	Template:Full party name with color
	79	Parlakhemundi	Trinath Sahu	Template:Party name with color
Rayagada	80	Gunupur (ST)	Akshya Kumar Gomango	Template:Full party name with color
	81	Bissam-cuttack (ST)	Dambarudhar Ulaka	Template:Full party name with color
	82	Rayagada (ST)	Ulaka Rama Chandra	Template:Full party name with color
Koraput	83	Lakshmipur (ST)	Anantaram Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	84	Pottangi (ST)	Ram Chandra Kadam	Template:Full party name with color
	85	Koraput	Gupta Prasad Das	Template:Full party name with color
Malkangiri	86	Malkangiri (SC)	Arabinda Dhali	Template:Full party name with color
	87	Chitrakonda (ST)	Gangadhar Madi	Template:Full party name with color
Koraput	88	Kotpad (ST)	Basudev Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	89	Jeypore	Raghunath Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
Nowrangpur	90	Nowrangpur	Habibulla Khan	Template:Full party name with color
	91	Kodinga (ST)	Sadan Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	92	Dabugam (ST)	Jadav Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	93	Umarkote (ST)	Parama Pujari	Template:Full party name with color
Nawapara	94	Nawapara	Ghasiram Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	95	Khariar	Duryodhan Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
Kalahandi	96	Dharamgarh (SC)	Bira Sipka	Template:Full party name with color
	97	Koksara	Roshini Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	98	Junagarh	Bikram Keshari Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	99	Bhawanipatna (SC)	Pradipta Kumar Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	100	Narla (ST)	Balabhadra Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	101	Kesinga	Bhupinder Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Kandhamal	102	Balliguda (ST)	Sahura Mallick	Template:Full party name with color
	103	Udayagiri (ST)	Nagarjuna Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	104	Phulbani (SC)	Dasarathi Behera	Template:Full party name with color
Boudh	105	Boudh	Satchidananda Dalal	Template:Full party name with color
Balangir	106	Titilagarh (SC)	Jogendra Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	107	Kantabanji	Santosh Singh Saluja	Template:Full party name with color
	108	Patnagarh	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	109	Saintala	Surendra Singh Bhoi	Template:Full party name with color
	110	Loisingha	Balgopal Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	111	Bolangir	Ananga Udaya Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
Subarnapur	112	Sonepur (SC)	Kunduru Kushal	Template:Full party name with color
	113	Binka	Narasingha Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	114	Birmaharajpur	Ram Chandra Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
Angul	115	Athmallik	Amarnath Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	116	Angul	Ramesh Jena	Template:Full party name with color
Dhenkanal	117	Hindol (SC)	Maheswar Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	118	Dhenkanal	Nabin Chandra Narayandas	Template:Full party name with color
	119	Gondia	Nandini Satapathy	Template:Full party name with color
Angul	120	Kamakhyanagar	Kailash Chandra Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	121	Pallahara	Bibhudhendra Pratap Das	Template:Full party name with color
	122	Talcher (SC)	Mahesh Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color
Bargarh	123	Padampur	Bijaya Ranjan Singh Bariha	Template:Full party name with color
	124	Melchhamunda	Prakash Chandra Debta	Template:Full party name with color
	125	Bijepur	Ripunath Seth	Template:Full party name with color
	126	Bhatli (SC)	Mohan Nag	Template:Full party name with color
	127	Bargarh	Prasanna Acharya	Template:Full party name with color
Sambalpur	128	Sambalpur	Durga Shankar Patanaik	Template:Full party name with color
Jharsuguda	129	Brajarajnagar	Prasanna Kumar Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	130	Jharsuguda	Birendra Chandra Pandey	Template:Full party name with color
	131	Laikera (ST)	Hemananda Biswal	Template:Full party name with color
Sambalpur	132	Kuchinda (ST)	Panu Chandra Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	133	Rairakhol (SC)	Abhimanyu Kumar	Template:Full party name with color
Deogarh	134	Deogarh	Pradipta Gang Deb	Template:Full party name with color
Sundergarh	135	Sundargarh	Kishore Chandra Patel	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)	George Tirkey	Template:Full party name with color
	139	Rourkela	Prabhat Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	140	Raghunathpali (ST)	Mansid Ekka	Template:Full party name with color
	141	Bonai (ST)	Jual Oram	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)	Jogendra Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	145	Telkoi (ST)	Chandrasena 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

Analysis

In Orissa, the Janata Dal had won massive landslide victory in 1990 elections by winning 84% of total seats. It completed full 5 year term and in 1995 elections it lost by winning 30% seats, giving way to Congress.

It is believed that one of the main reasons was, the then excise minister Prasanna Acharya banned alcoholic and tobacco products in 1992. It is believed, those who were addicted to it, voted for Congress in following elections of 1995. Congress, after coming to power, withdrew the ban. It justified that State Govt. will earn revenue from this business.

It accused, the JD is depriving the state from economic prosperity and it is prioritising the Coastal Belt instead of Tribal belt. But Congress itself couldn't work for economic progress or Tribal development, when it came to power.

The Janata CM Sri Biju Pattanaik had criticised the tribal districts as, "not even capable of having built a cycle factory, what steel plant would be built?" So JD lost tribal votes.

See also

• List of constituencies of the Odisha Legislative Assembly
• 1995 elections in India