Elections to the Third Odisha Legislative Assembly were held 1961.[1]
Constituencies
The elections were held for 140 constituencies, of which 25 were reserved for Scheduled Castes, 29 for Scheduled Tribes and 86 unreserved.
Contesting parties
There are three national parties Communist Party of India, Congress and Praja Socialist Party, one state party All India Ganatantra Parishad,one registered unrecognised party Jharkhand Party and some Independent Politiciantook part in this assembly election. Congress party emerged again as the winner by winning 58% of the seats with a vote share of 43.28%.[2] The post of Chief Minister saw successive replacements during this period.Biju Patnaik became the Chief Minister of Odisha and remained in power till 1963, before being replaced by Biren Mitra, and finally by Sadashiva Tripathy.
Results
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! Political Party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! Net Change
in seats !! % of
Seats
! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in
vote %
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| style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress
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| 140 || 82 || Template:Increase 26 || 58.57 || 12,69,000 || 43.28 || Template:Increase 5.02
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| style="text-align:left;" |All India Ganatantra Parishad
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| 121 || 37 || Template:Decrease 14 || 26.42 || 6,55,099 || 27.23 || Template:Decrease 1.51
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| style="text-align:left;" |Praja Socialist Party
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| 43 || 10 || Template:Decrease 1 || 7.14 || 3,22,305 || 30.43 || Template:Increase 20.03
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| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India
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| 35 || 4 || Template:Decrease 5 || 3.57 || 2,33,971 || 27.32 || Template:Increase 18.92
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| style="text-align:left;" |Jharkhand Party
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| 9 || 0 || "New" || 0 || 25,602 || 13.57 || "New"
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| 187 || 7 || Template:Decrease 6 || 5 || 4,26,302 || 20.89 || N/A
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! style="text-align:center;" |Total Seats !! 140 (Template:Steady 0) !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 85,51,743 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! colspan = 2|31,27,245 (36.57%)
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References
- ↑ Orissa 1961. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
- ↑ Orissa 1961. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2021-05-08.