1961 Orissa Legislative Assembly election

Elections to the Third Orissa Legislative Assembly were held 1961.

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 (the Communist Party of India, Congress and the Praja Socialist Party), one state party (Ganatantra Parishad), one registered unrecognised party (Jharkhand Party) and some Independent Politicians. All took part in this assembly election. The Congress party won a clear majority for the first time in Orissa by winning 58% of the seats with a vote share of 43.28%. The 1961 election was the first decisive election which resulted non-coalition govt. in the state. The post of Chief Minister saw successive replacements during this period. Bijayananda Pattanaik became the Chief Minister of Orissa and remained in power till 1963, when he was called by the national high command for reforming the party. He was replaced by the Bengali Biren Mitra, and finally by Sadasiba Tripathy in 1965 when corruption charges were brought against Mitra.

Results

Source: Election Commission of India

File:India Odisha Legislative Assembly 1961.svg
Party				Popular vote			Seats
Color	Flag	Name	Symbol	Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
Template:Party color cell	File:Flag of the Indian National Congress (1931–1971).svg	Indian National Congress	File:A pair of bullocks – the election symbol for the Congress Party in 1952.jpg	1,269,000	43.28%	Template:Increase 5.02	140	82	Template:Increase 26
Template:Party color cell		Ganatantra Parishad	File:Indian Election Symbol Bow And Arrow.svg	655,099	22.34%	Template:Decrease 6.40	121	37	Template:Decrease 14
Template:Party color cell	File:Flag of Praja Socialist Party.svg	Praja Socialist Party	File:Indian Election Symbol Hut.png	322,305	10.99%	Template:Increase 0.59	43	10	Template:Decrease 1
Template:Party color cell	File:CPI-banner.svg	Communist Party of India	File:CPI symbol.svg	233,971	7.98%	Template:Decrease 0.42	35	4	Template:Decrease 5
Template:Party color cell		Jharkhand Party	File:Indian Election Symbol Cock.png	25,602	0.87%	(new)	9	0	(new)
Template:Party color cell	-	Independents	-	426,302	14.54%	Template:Increase 0.33	187	7	Template:Decrease 6
Total				-	-	-	-	140	-
Valid Votes				2,932,279	34.29
Invalid Votes				194,966	-
Total Votes polled / turnout				3,127,245	36.57
Abstentation				5,424,498	-
Total No. of Electors				8,551,743

Elected members

District	#	Constituency Name	Winner	Party
Koraput	1	Omerkote	Sadasiba Tripathy	Template:Full party name with color
	2	Dabugam	Jagannath Tripathy	Template:Full party name with color
	3	Nowrangpur (SC)	Harijan Miru	Template:Full party name with color
	4	Jeypore	Raghunath Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	5	Kotpad (SC)	Mahadev Bakria	Template:Full party name with color
	6	Malkangiri (ST)	Guru Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	7	Padwa	Ganeswar Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	8	Koraput (ST)	Toyaka Sangana	Template:Full party name with color
	9	Pottangi (ST)	Musuri Santa Pangi	Template:Full party name with color
	10	Rayagada (ST)	Mandangi Kamaya	Template:Full party name with color
	11	Gunupur	Narasinga Patra	Template:Full party name with color
	12	Bissamcuttack (ST)	Biswanath Chowdhary	Template:Full party name with color
Ganjam	13	Parlakimedi	Nalla Kurma Naikulu	Template:Full party name with color
	14	R. Udaigiri (ST)	Ramachandra Bhoya	Template:Full party name with color
	15	Digapahandi	Raghunath Mahapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	16	Mohana (SC)	Biswanath Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	17	Berhampur	Sisir Kumar Narendra Deb	Template:Full party name with color
	18	Patrapur (SC)	Trilochan Jani	Template:Full party name with color
	19	Dura	P. Venkat Jagannath Rao	Template:Full party name with color
	20	Chatrapur	Lakshman Mahapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	21	Khallikote	Ramchandra Mardaraj Dev	Template:Full party name with color
	22	Hinjili	Brundaban Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	23	Kodala West	Biswanath Das	Template:Full party name with color
	24	Kodala East	Lingaraj Panigrahi	Template:Full party name with color
	25	Bhanjanagar	Maguni Charan Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	26	Jagannath Prasad (SC)	Udayanath Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	27	Aska	Lokanath Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	28	Suruda	Arjun Naik	Template:Full party name with color
Phulbani	29	Balliguda (ST)	Podra Dubara	Template:Full party name with color
	30	G. Udayagiri (ST)	Sarangdhar Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	31	Phulbani	Himansu Sekhar Padhi	Template:Full party name with color
	32	Baudh (SC)	Anirudha Dipa	Template:Full party name with color
Kalahandi	33	Madanpur-Rampur	Birakeshari Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	34	Bhawanipatna (ST)	Anchal Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	35	Kasipur	Nabakumari Devi	Template:Full party name with color
	36	Koksara (SC)	Dayanidhi Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	37	Junagarh	Maheswar Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	38	Dharamgarh (ST)	Mukunda Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	39	Khariar	Anupa Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	40	Nawpara (ST)	Ghasiram Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
Bolangir	41	Kantabanji	Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	42	Titilagarh (SC)	Achyutananda Mahananda	Template:Full party name with color
	43	Saintala	Ainthu Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color
	44	Patnagarh (ST)	Ramesh Chandra Singh Bhoi	Template:Full party name with color
	45	Loisingha	Ram Prasad Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	46	Bolangir (ST)	Chandra Sekhar Singh Bhoi	Template:Full party name with color
	47	Tusra	Nandakishore Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	48	Binka	Anantaram Nanda	Template:Full party name with color
	49	Sonepur (SC)	Daulata Ganda	Template:Full party name with color
Sambalpur	50	Melchhamunda	Satchidananda Padhi	Template:Full party name with color
	51	Padampur (ST)	Bir Bikramaditya Singh Bariha	Template:Full party name with color
	52	Bargarh	Gananath Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	53	Bijepur (SC)	Mohan Nag	Template:Full party name with color
	54	Bhatli	Saraswati Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	55	Sambalpur	Banamali Babu	Template:Full party name with color
	56	Attabira (SC)	Dalaganjan Chhuria	Template:Full party name with color
	57	Katarbaga	Bishnu Prasad Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	58	Deogarh (ST)	Jayadev Thakur	Template:Full party name with color
	59	Rairakhol	Bhanuganga Tribhuban Deb	Template:Full party name with color
	60	Brajrajnagar	Prasanna Kumar Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	61	Jharsuguda (ST)	Binod Behari Singh Bariha	Template:Full party name with color
Sundergarh	62	Sundergarh	Harihar Patel	Template:Full party name with color
	63	Talsara (ST)	Gangadhar Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	64	Rajgangpur (ST)	Rangaballabh Amat	Template:Full party name with color
	65	Bisra (ST)	Premchand Bhagat	Template:Full party name with color
	66	Bonai (ST)	Hemendra Prasad Mahapatra	Template:Full party name with color
Keonjhar	67	Champua (ST)	Guru Charan Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	68	Patna	Raj Ballabh Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	69	Keonjhar	Janardan Bhanj Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	70	Telkoi (ST)	Govinda Chandra Munda	Template:Full party name with color
	71	Ramachandrapur	Muralidhar Kuanr	Template:Full party name with color
	72	Anandapur (SC)	Makar Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
Dhenkanal	73	Pal-lahara	Pabitra Mohan Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	74	Talcher	Pabitra Mohan Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	75	Kamakhyanagar	Brundaban Tripathy	Template:Full party name with color
	76	Dhenkanal	Ratnaprava Devi	Template:Full party name with color
	77	Gondia	Kalia Dehuri	Template:Full party name with color
	78	Chhendipada (SC)	Pada Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	79	Angul	Kumud Chandra Singh	Template:Full party name with color
	80	Athmallik	Khetra Mohan Panigrahi	Template:Full party name with color
Puri	81	Banpur	Raghunath Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	82	Daspalla (SC)	Saheb Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	83	Khandpara	Raja Saheb Harihar Singh Mardaraj Bhramarabara Roy	Template:Full party name with color
	84	Nayagarh	Brundaban Chandra Singh	Template:Full party name with color
	85	Ranpur	Ram Chandra Ram	Template:Full party name with color
	86	Begunia	Gangadhar Paikray	Template:Full party name with color
	87	Khurda	Banamali Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	88	Bhubaneswar	Satyapriya Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	89	Balipatna (SC)	Gopinath Bhoi	Template:Full party name with color
	90	Brahmagiri	Gopabandhu Patra	Template:Full party name with color
	91	Puri	Bhagban Pratihari	Template:Full party name with color
	92	Satyabadi	Rajraj Deb	Template:Full party name with color
	93	Pipili	Ram Chandra Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	94	Kakatpur	Upendra Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	95	Nimapara (SC)	Gobinda Chandra Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
Cuttack	96	Banki	Gokulanand Praharaj	Template:Full party name with color
	97	Baramba	Bidyadhar Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	98	Athgarh	Achyutananda Dash	Template:Full party name with color
	99	Cuttack City	Biren Mitra	Template:Full party name with color
	100	Choudwar	Biju Pattnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	101	Cuttack Sadar (SC)	Laxman Mallick	Template:Full party name with color
	102	Jagatsinghpur	Priyanath Dey	Template:Full party name with color
	103	Govindpur (SC)	Kanduri Charan Mallik	Template:Full party name with color
	104	Mahanga	Surendranath Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	105	Salepur (SC)	Baidhar Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	106	Balikuda	Bipin Bihari Das	Template:Full party name with color
	107	Ersama	Ratnamali Jema	Template:Full party name with color
	108	Tirtol	Pratap Chandra Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	109	Patkura	Lokanath Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	110	Rajnagar	Padma Charan Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	111	Aul	Raja Sailendra Narayan Bhanja Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	112	Kendrapara	Dhruba Charan Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
	113	Pattamundei (SC)	Prahlad Mallik	Template:Full party name with color
	114	Binjharpur	Chittaranjan Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	115	Berchana	Dhananjoy Lenka	Template:Full party name with color
	116	Dharmasala	Gadadhar Dutta	Template:Full party name with color
	117	Sukinda (SC)	Baidhar Singh	Template:Full party name with color
	118	Jajpur West	Madan Mohan Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	119	Jajpur East (SC)	Santanu Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
Balasore	120	Dhamnagar	Muralidhar Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	121	Basudebpur	Nilamani Routray	Template:Full party name with color
	122	Chandbali (SC)	Bairagi Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	123	Bhadrak	Nityananda Mahapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	124	Soro	Karunakar Panigrahi	Template:Full party name with color
	125	Simulia (SC)	Bhagiratha Das	Template:Full party name with color
	126	Nilgiri	Rajendra Chandra Mardaraj Harichandan	Template:Full party name with color
	127	Balasore	Bijoy Krushna De	Template:Full party name with color
	128	Basta	Maheswar Baug	Template:Full party name with color
	129	Bhograi	Pyarimohan Das	Template:Full party name with color
	130	Jaleswar	Prasanna Kumar Paul	Template:Full party name with color
Mayurbhanj	131	Kunta	Prasanna Kumar Dash	Template:Full party name with color
	132	Baisinga (SC)	Arjun Patra	Template:Full party name with color
	133	Udala (ST)	Manmohan Tudu	Template:Full party name with color
	134	Karanjia	Pravakar Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	135	Jashipur (ST)	Mochiram Tiriya	Template:Full party name with color
	136	Rairangpur (ST)	Chandra Mohan Singh	Template:Full party name with color
	137	Bahalda (ST)	Sonaram Soren	Template:Full party name with color
	138	Bangiriposi (ST)	Ishwar Chandra Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	139	Baripada	Santosh Kumar Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
	140	Muruda (ST)	Sakila Soren	Template:Full party name with color