2004 Orissa Legislative Assembly election

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Elections to the Orissa Legislative Assembly were held in April 2004 to elect members of the 147 constituencies in Orissa, India. The Bhartiya Janata Party and Biju Janata Dal fought election together as NDA. The National Democratic Alliance won the most seats and Naveen Patnaik was re-appointed as the Chief Minister of Orissa. The opposition Congress was headed by former CM Janaki Ballabh Pattnaik, who was unsuccessful.[1][2] The number of constituencies was set as 147 by the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.[3]

Schedule

The schedule of the election was announced by the Election Commission of India on 29 February 2004.[4]

Poll event[5] Phase
1 2
Date of announcement 29 February 2004
Notification date 24 March 2004 31 March 2004
Last date for filing nomination 31 March 2004 7 April 2004
Scrutiny of nomination 2 April 2004 8 April 2004
Last date for withdrawal of nomination 5 April 2004 10 April 2004
Date of poll 20 April 2004 26 April 2004
Date of counting of votes 13 May 2004
No. of constituencies 77 70

Parties and alliances

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Seats where divided in 4:3 ratio.

Party Flag Symbol Leader Contesting Seats
Template:Party color cell Biju Janata Dal Naveen Patnaik 84
Template:Party color cell Bharatiya Janata Party Jual Oram 63

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Party Flag Symbol Leader Contesting Seats
Template:Party color cell Indian National Congress Janaki Ballabh Patnaik 133
Template:Party color cell Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Shibu Soren 12
Template:Party color cell Odisha Gana Parishad - - Bijoy Mohapatra 4

Result

Source: Election Commission of India[6][7]
Party Popular vote Seats
Color Name Symbol Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/−
Template:Party color cell Indian National Congress 5,896,713 34.82 Template:Increase1.04 133 38 Template:Increase12
Template:Party color cell Biju Janata Dal 4,632,280 27.36 Template:Decrease2.04 84 61 Template:Decrease7
Template:Party color cell Bharatiya Janata Party 2,898,105 17.11 Template:Decrease1.09 63 32 Template:Decrease6
Template:Party color cell Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 301,777 1.78 Template:Decrease0.36 12 4 Template:Increase1
Template:Party color cell Odisha Gana Parishad - 217,998 1.20 (new) 4 2 (new)
Template:Party color cell Communist Party of India 129,989 0.77 Template:Decrease0.45 6 1 Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell Communist Party of India (Marxist) 93,159 0.55 Template:Decrease0.22 3 1 Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell Independents - 2,065,650 12.20 Template:Increase1.54 295 8 Template:Steady
Total - 100 - - 147 -
Valid Votes 16,933,456 66.01
Invalid Votes 9,461 -
Total Votes polled / turnout 16,942,917 66.05
Abstentation 8,709,072 -
Total No. of Electors 25,651,989

Elected members

District AC. No. Constituency Member Party
Mayurbhanj 1 Karanjia (ST) Ajit Hembram Template:Full party name with color
2 Jashipur (ST) Shambhu Nath Naik Template:Party name with color
3 Bahalda (ST) Prahlad Purty Template:Full party name with color
4 Rairangpur (ST) Droupadi Murmu Template:Full party name with color
5 Bangriposi (ST) Chaitanya Prasad Majhi Template:Full party name with color
6 Kuliana (ST) Sananda Marndi Template:Full party name with color
7 Baripada Bimal Lochan Das Template:Full party name with color
8 Baisinga (ST) Pramila Giri Template:Full party name with color
9 Khunta (ST) Golak Bihari Naik Template:Full party name with color
10 Udala (ST) Bhaskar Madhei Template:Full party name with color
Balasore 11 Bhograi Ananta Das Template:Full party name with color
12 Jaleswar Aswini Kumar Patra Template:Full party name with color
13 Basta Raghunath Mohanty Template:Full party name with color
14 Balasore Arun Dey Template:Full party name with color
15 Soro Kartik Mohapatra Template:Full party name with color
16 Simulia Padma Lochan Panda Template:Full party name with color
17 Nilgiri Pratap Chandra Sarangi Template:Full party name with color
Bhadrak 18 Bhandaripokhari (SC) Ananta Prasad Sethi Template:Full party name with color
19 Bhadrak Naren Pallai Template:Full party name with color
20 Dhamnagar Manmohan Samal Template:Full party name with color
21 Chandbali (SC) Netrananda Mallick 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 Sanchita Mohanty Template:Full party name with color
25 Jajpur (SC) Parameswar Sethi Template:Full party name with color
26 Dharamsala Kalpataru Das Template:Full party name with color
27 Barchana Sitakanta Mohapatra Template:Full party name with color
28 Bari-Derabisi Debasis Nayak Template:Full party name with color
29 Binjharpur (SC) Pramila Mallik Template:Full party name with color
Kendrapara 30 Aul Pratap Keshari Deb Template:Full party name with color
31 Patamundai (SC) Kishor Chandra Tarai Template:Full party name with color
32 Rajnagar Nalinikanta Mohanty Template:Full party name with color
33 Kendrapara Utkal Keshari Parida Template:Full party name with color
34 Patkura Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak Template:Full party name with color
Jagatsinghpur 35 Tirtol Chiranjib Biswal Template:Full party name with color
36 Ersama Damodar Rout Template:Full party name with color
37 Balikuda Umesh Chandra Swain Template:Full party name with color
38 Jagatsinghpur (SC) Bishnu Charan Das Template:Full party name with color
Cuttack 39 Kissannagar Pratap Jena Template:Full party name with color
40 Mahanga Bikram Keshari Barma Template:Full party name with color
41 Salepur (SC) Kalindi Behera Template:Full party name with color
42 Gobindpur Rabindra Kumar Mallick Template:Full party name with color
43 Cuttack Sadar Pravata Ranjan Biswal Template:Full party name with color
44 Cuttack City Samir Dey Template:Full party name with color
45 Choudwar Dharmananda Behera Template:Full party name with color
46 Banki Debasis Pattnaik 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) Shashi Bhusan Behera Template:Full party name with color
50 Bhubaneswar Biswabhusan Harichandan Template:Full party name with color
51 Jatni Sarat Patkaray Template:Full party name with color
Puri 52 Pipli Pradeep Maharathy Template:Full party name with color
53 Nimapara (SC) Baidhar Mallick Template:Full party name with color
54 Kakatpur Surendra Nath Naik Template:Full party name with color
55 Satyabadi Ramaranjan Baliarsingh 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 Bibhuti Bhusan Harichandan Template:Full party name with color
59 Khurda Jyotirindra Nath Mitra Template:Full party name with color
60 Begunia Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Template:Full party name with color
Nayagarh 61 Ranpur Surama Padhy Template:Full party name with color
62 Nayagarh Arun Kumar Sahoo Template:Full party name with color
63 Khandapara Bijayalaxmi Pattnaik Template:Party name with color
64 Daspalla Rudra Madhab Ray Template: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 Kishore Chandra Singh Deo Template:Full party name with color
68 Aska Saroj Kumar Padhi Template:Full party name with color
69 Kabisuryanagar Ladu Kishore Swain Template:Full party name with color
70 Kodala Niranjan Pradhan Template:Full party name with color
71 Khallikote V. Sugnana Kumari Deo Template:Full party name with color
72 Chatrapur Nagireddy Narayan Reddy Template:Full party name with color
73 Hinjili Naveen Patnaik Template:Full party name with color
74 Gopalpur (SC) Trinath Behera Template:Full party name with color
75 Berhampur Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik Template:Full party name with color
76 Chikiti Usha Devi Template:Full party name with color
Gajapati 77 Mohana Surjya Narayan Patro Template:Full party name with color
78 Ramagiri (ST) Bharat Paik Template:Full party name with color
79 Parlakhemundi Trinath Sahu Template:Full party name with color
Rayagada 80 Gunupur (ST) Hemabati Gamang 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) Jayaram Pangi Template:Full party name with color
85 Koraput Tara Prasad Bahinipati Template:Full party name with color
Malkangiri 86 Malkangiri (SC) Nimai Chandra Sarkar Template:Full party name with color
87 Chitrakonda (ST) Prahlad Dora Template:Full party name with color
Koraput 88 Kotpad (ST) Basudev Majhi Template:Full party name with color
89 Jeypore Rabi Narayan Nanda 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) Ramesh Chandra Majhi Template:Full party name with color
93 Umarkote (ST) Dharmu Gond Template:Full party name with color
Nawapara 94 Nawapara Rajendra Dholakia 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 Pushpendra Singh Deo Template:Full party name with color
98 Junagarh Himansu Sekhar Meher 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 Dhaneswar Majhi Template:Full party name with color
Kandhamal 102 Balliguda (ST) Karendra Majhi Template:Full party name with color
103 Udayagiri (ST) Ajayanti Pradhan Template:Full party name with color
104 Phulbani (SC) Padmanabha Behera Template:Full party name with color
Boudh 105 Boudh Pradip Kumar Amat Template:Full party name with color
Balangir 106 Titilagarh (SC) Jogendra Behera Template:Full party name with color
107 Kantabanji Haji Md. Ayub Khan Template:Full party name with color
108 Patnagarh Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo Template:Full party name with color
109 Saintala Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo Template:Full party name with color
110 Loisingha Narasingha Mishra Template:Full party name with color
111 Bolangir Ananga Udaya Singh Deo Template:Full party name with color
Subarnapur 112 Sonepur (SC) Binod Patra Template:Full party name with color
113 Binka Niranjan Pujari Template:Full party name with color
114 Birmaharajpur Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo Template:Full party name with color
Angul 115 Athmallik Nagendra Kumar Pradhan Template:Full party name with color
116 Angul Rajanikant Singh Template:Full party name with color
Dhenkanal 117 Hindol (SC) Anjali Behera Template:Full party name with color
118 Dhenkanal Sudhir Kumar Samal Template:Full party name with color
119 Gondia Saroj Kumar Samal Template:Full party name with color
Angul 120 Kamakhyanagar Prafulla Kumar Mallik Template:Full party name with color
121 Pallahara Nrusingha Charan Sahu Template:Full party name with color
122 Talcher (SC) Mahesh Sahoo Template:Full party name with color
Bargarh 123 Padampur Satya Bhusan Sahu Template:Full party name with color
124 Melchhamunda Mohammad Rafique Template:Full party name with color
125 Bijepur Subal Sahu Template:Full party name with color
126 Bhatli (SC) Bimbadhar Kuanr Template:Full party name with color
127 Bargarh Ananda Acharya Template:Full party name with color
Sambalpur 128 Sambalpur Jayanarayan Mishra Template:Full party name with color
Jharsuguda 129 Brajarajnagar Anup Kumar Sai Template:Full party name with color
130 Jharsuguda Kishore Kumar Mohanty Template:Full party name with color
131 Laikera (ST) Brundaban Majhi Template:Full party name with color
Sambalpur 132 Kuchinda (ST) Rabi Narayan Naik Template:Full party name with color
133 Rairakhol (SC) Sanatan Bisi Template:Full party name with color
Deogarh 134 Deogarh Nitesh Ganga Deb Template:Full party name with color
Sundergarh 135 Sundargarh Shankarsan Naik Template:Full party name with color
136 Talsara (ST) Gajadhar Majhi Template:Full party name with color
137 Rajgangpur (ST) Gregory Minz Template:Full party name with color
138 Biramitrapur (ST) Nihar Surin Template:Full party name with color
139 Rourkela Sarada Prasad Nayak Template:Full party name with color
140 Raghunathpali (ST) Halu Mundary Template:Full party name with color
141 Bonai (ST) Laxman Munda Template:Full party name with color
Keonjhar 142 Champua (ST) Dhanurjaya Sidu Template:Full party name with color
143 Patna Gourahari Naik Template:Full party name with color
144 Keonjhar (ST) Mohan Charan Majhi Template:Full party name with color
145 Telkoi (ST) Niladri Nayak 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 & Govt Formation

Assembly was dissolved early almost a year ahead & election were called in line with 2004 Indian general election. NDA lost the general election but won 2004 Orissa Assembly election. Mr. Patnaik resigned on 15 May 2004 paving way for new govt.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik along with 14 Cabinet Ministers and 7 Minister of State were administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor M. M. Rajendran at the Raj Bhavan, Bhubaneswar on 16 May 2004. No. of Ministers for BJD & BJP were divided on 2:1 ratio where BJD had the larger share of representation in the ministry with 14 ministers including the Chief Minister while the BJP had eight.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Naveen Patnaik — an election-ready politician(21 September 2021). Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  2. ↑ List Of Honourable Chief Minister (YearWise). odishaassembly.nic.in. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  3. ↑ DPACO (1976) - Archive Delimitation Orders. Election Commission of India. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
  4. ↑ General Election Schedule 2004.
  5. ↑ Counting of votes for AP assembly begins(11 May 2004).
  6. ↑ Statistical Report on General Election, 2004 to the Legislative Assembly of Orissa. Election Commission of India.
  7. ↑ Statistical Report on General Election, 2004 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  8. ↑ Naveen sworn in as Orissa CM. The Times of India(2004-05-16). Retrieved 2025-06-15.
  9. ↑ 22-member BJD-BJP ministry in Orissa sworn-in. Hindustan Times.

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