1977 Orissa Legislative Assembly election

Elections to the seventh Orissa Legislative Assembly were held 1977.

Constituencies

The elections were held for 147 seats. A total of 604 candidates contested for these 147 seats.

Political Parties

In 1974, Utkal Congress merged into Bharatiya Lok Dal to form Orissa Janata Party. Orissa Janata Party which also included Indian National Congress (O) – where "O" stood for "Organisation" or "Old" along with Samyukta Socialist Party and the Bharatiya Jana Sangh came together to form Janata Party to oppose Indira Gandhi and the Congress (R).

Three national parties, Communist Party of India, Indian National Congress, and Janata Party took part in the assembly election.

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 Election Symbol Chakra Haldhar.png	Janata Party	File:Indian Election Symbol Chakra Haldhar.png	2,527,787	49.17	(new)	147	110	(new)
Template:Party color cell	File:Cow and Calf INC.svg	Indian National Congress	File:Cow and Calf INC.svg	1,594,505	31.02	Template:Decrease 6.42	146	26	Template:Decrease 43
Template:Party color cell	File:CPI-banner.svg	Communist Party of India	File:CPI symbol.svg	183,485	3.57	Template:Decrease 1.3	25	1	Template:Decrease 6
Template:Party color cell	File:CPI-M-flag.svg	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	File:CPIM election symbol.png	45,219	0.88	Template:Decrease 0.3	4	1	Template:Decrease 3
Template:Party color cell	-	Independents	-	738,545	14.37	Template:Decrease 1.38	264	9	Template:Decrease 2
Total				-	100	-	-	147	-
Valid Votes				5,140,549	40.67
Invalid Votes				140,861	-
Total Votes polled / turnout				5,281,410	41.79
Abstentation				7,357,972	-
Total No. of Electors				12,639,382

Elected members

District	AC. No.	Constituency	Winner Candidate	Party
Mayurbhanj	1	Karanjia (ST)	Raghunath Hemram	Template:Full party name with color
	2	Jashipur (ST)	Kanhuram Hembram	Template:Full party name with color
	3	Bahalda (ST)	Sunaram Soren	Template:Full party name with color
	4	Rairangpur (ST)	Arjun Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	5	Bangriposi (ST)	Purusottam Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	6	Kuliana (ST)	Niranjan Hembram	Template:Full party name with color
	7	Baripada	Prasanna Kumar Dash	Template:Full party name with color
	8	Baisinga (ST)	Ram Chandar Kisku	Template:Full party name with color
	9	Khunta (ST)	Ramesh Soren	Template:Full party name with color
	10	Udala (ST)	Birabhadra Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Baleshwar	11	Bhograi	Sushant Chand	Template:Full party name with color
	12	Jaleswar	Gadadhar Giri	Template:Full party name with color
	13	Basta	Maheshwar Baug	Template:Full party name with color
	14	Balasore	Kartik Chandar Rout	Template:Full party name with color
	15	Soro	Haraprasad Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	16	Simulia	Gopinath Das	Template:Full party name with color
	17	Nilgiri	Rajendra Chandra Mardaraj	Template:Full party name with color
	18	Bhandaripokhari (SC)	Kapila Charan Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
	19	Bhadrak	Ratnakar Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	20	Dhamnagar	Hrudananda Mallick	Template:Full party name with color
	21	Chandbali (SC)	Gangadhar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	22	Basudevpur	Nilamani Routray	Template:Full party name with color
Cuttack	23	Sukinda	Ananda Manjari Devi	Template:Full party name with color
	24	Korai	Ashok Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	25	Jajpur (SC)	Jaganath Malik	Template:Full party name with color
	26	Dharamsala	Rabi Das	Template:Full party name with color
	27	Barchana	Managobinda Samal	Template:Full party name with color
	28	Bari-Derabisi	Srikant Kumar Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	29	Binjharpur (SC)	Santanu Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	30	Aul	Sarat Kumar Deb	Template:Full party name with color
	31	Patamundai (SC)	Tapas Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	32	Rajnagar	Nalinikanta Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	33	Kendrapara	Bed Prakash Agrawal	Template:Full party name with color
	34	Patkura	Prahallad Mallick	Template:Full party name with color
	35	Tirtol	Pratap Chandra Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	36	Ersama	Damodar Rout	Template:Full party name with color
	37	Balikuda	Umesh Swain	Template:Full party name with color
	38	Jagatsinghpur (SC)	Kanduri Charan Mallik	Template:Full party name with color
	39	Kissannagar	Batakrishna Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	40	Mahanga	Pradipta Kishore Das	Template:Full party name with color
	41	Salepur (SC)	Kalindi Charan Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	42	Gobindpur	Panchanan Kanungo	Template:Full party name with color
	43	Cuttack Sadar	Sangram Keshari Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	44	Cuttack City	Biswanath Pandit	Template:Full party name with color
	45	Choudwar	Rajkishore Ram	Template:Full party name with color
	46	Banki	Jogesh Chandra Rout	Template:Full party name with color
	47	Athgarh	Rasmanjari Devi	Template:Full party name with color
	48	Baramba	Trilochan Singh Deo	Template:Party name with color
Puri	49	Balipatna (SC)	Gopinath Bhoi	Template:Full party name with color
	50	Bhubaneswar	Satyapriya Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	51	Jatni	Suresh Kumar Routray	Template:Full party name with color
	52	Pipli	Kiran Lekha Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	53	Nimapara (SC)	Govinda Chandra Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
	54	Kakatpur	Surendra Nath Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	55	Satyabadi	Chandra Madhab Misra	Template:Full party name with color
	56	Puri	Braja Kishore Tripathy	Template:Full party name with color
	57	Brahmagiri	Ajay Kumar Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	58	Chilka	Biswabhusan Harichandan	Template:Full party name with color
	59	Khurda	Sudarsan Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	60	Begunia	Chintamani Panigrahi	Template:Full party name with color
	61	Ranpur	Ramesh Chandra Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	62	Nayagarh	Bhagabat Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	63	Khandapara	Satyasundar Mishra	Template:Party name with color
	64	Daspalla	Harihar Karan	Template:Full party name with color
Ganjam	65	Jaganathprasad (SC)	Udayanath Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	66	Bhanjanagar	Jami Subba Rao Prusty	Template:Full party name with color
	67	Suruda	Ananta Narayan Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	68	Aska	Harihar Swain	Template:Full party name with color
	69	Kabisuryanagar	Tarini Patnaik	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	Biswanath Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
	73	Hinjili	Brundaban Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	74	Gopalpur (SC)	Ghansyam Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	75	Berhampur	Ratna Manjari Devi	Template:Party name with color
	76	Chikiti	Jagannath Pati	Template:Full party name with color
	77	Mohana	Udaya Narayan Devi	Template:Party name with color
	78	Ramagiri (ST)	Gorosang Savara	Template:Full party name with color
	79	Parlakhemundi	Bijaya Kumar Jena	Template:Party name with color
Koraput	80	Gunupur (ST)	Bhagirathi Gomango	Template:Full party name with color
	81	Bissam-cuttack (ST)	Dambarudhar Ulaka	Template:Full party name with color
	82	Rayagada (ST)	Ulaka Ramachandra	Template:Full party name with color
	83	Lakshmipur (ST)	Akhili Saunta	Template:Full party name with color
	84	Pottangi (ST)	Jayaram Pangi	Template:Full party name with color
	85	Koraput	Harish Chandra Buxipatra	Template:Full party name with color
	86	Malkangiri (SC)	Naka Kannaya	Template:Full party name with color
	87	Chitrakonda (ST)	Prahalad Dora	Template:Full party name with color
	88	Kotpad (ST)	Basudev Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	89	Jeypore	Raghunath Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	90	Nowrangpur	Habibulla Khan	Template:Full party name with color
	91	Kodinga (ST)	Domburu Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	92	Dabugam (ST)	Shyamoghono Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	93	Umarkote (ST)	Rabisingh Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
Kalahandi	94	Nawapara	Ghasiram Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	95	Khariar	Kapil Narayan Tiwari	Template:Party name with color
	96	Dharamgarh (SC)	Gajanan Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	97	Koksara	Rasa Behari Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	98	Junagarh	Maheshwar Barad	Template:Full party name with color
	99	Bhawanipatna (SC)	Dayanidhi Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	100	Narla (ST)	Tejraj Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	101	Kesinga	Nagendranath Choudhury	Template:Full party name with color
Phulabani	102	Balliguda (ST)	Sadananda Konhor	Template:Party name with color
	103	Udayagiri (ST)	Ranjit Kumar Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	104	Phulbani (SC)	Prahallad Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	105	Boudh	Natabar Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
Balangir	106	Titilagarh (SC)	Lalit Mohan Gandhi	Template:Full party name with color
	107	Kantabanji	Prasanna Kumar Pal	Template:Full party name with color
	108	Patnagarh	Bibekananda Meher	Template:Full party name with color
	109	Saintala	Subash Chandra Bag	Template:Full party name with color
	110	Loisingha	Ram Prasad Misra	Template:Full party name with color
	111	Bolangir	Muralidhar Guru	Template:Full party name with color
	112	Sonepur (SC)	Debaraj Seth	Template:Full party name with color
	113	Binka	Parakhita Karana	Template:Party name with color
	114	Birmaharajpur	Surendra Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
Dhenkanal	115	Athmallik	Balakrushna Pattanayak	Template:Full party name with color
	116	Angul	Adwait Prasad Singh	Template:Full party name with color
	117	Hindol (SC)	Trinath Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	118	Dhenkanal	Nandini Satpathy	Template:Full party name with color
	119	Gondia	Haldnar Misra	Template:Full party name with color
	120	Kamakhyanagar	Prasanna Kumar Pattnayak	Template:Full party name with color
	121	Pallahara	Dharanidhar Pradhan	Template:Party name with color
	122	Talcher (SC)	Brundaban Behera	Template:Full party name with color
Sambalpur	123	Padampur	Bir Bikramaditya Singh Bariha	Template:Full party name with color
	124	Melchhamunda	Birendra Kumar Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color
	125	Bijepur	Nityananda Gartia	Template:Full party name with color
	126	Bhatli (SC)	Bimbadhar Kuanr	Template:Full party name with color
	127	Bargarh	Nabin Kumar Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	128	Sambalpur	Jhasketan Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color
	129	Brajarajnagar	Upendra Diksit	Template:Full party name with color
	130	Jharsuguda	Sairindra Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	131	Laikera (ST)	Rameshwar Singh Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	132	Kuchinda (ST)	Jagateswar Mirdha	Template:Full party name with color
	133	Rairakhol (SC)	Basanta Kumar Mahananda	Template:Full party name with color
	134	Deogarh	Bhanu Ganga Tribhuban Deb	Template:Full party name with color
Sundergarh	135	Sundargarh	Kishore Chandra Patel	Template:Full party name with color
	136	Talsara (ST)	Ignace Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	137	Rajgangpur (ST)	Brajamohan Kishan	Template:Full party name with color
	138	Biramitrapur (ST)	Prem Chand Bhagat	Template:Full party name with color
	139	Rourkela	Braja Kishore Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	140	Raghunathpali (ST)	Rabi Dehuri	Template:Full party name with color
	141	Bonai (ST)	Hemanta Kumar Singh Dandpat	Template:Full party name with color
Keonjhar	142	Champua (ST)	Saharai Oram	Template:Full party name with color
	143	Patna	Maheswar Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	144	Keonjhar (ST)	Kumar Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	145	Telkoi (ST)	Niladri Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	146	Ramchandrapur	Khirod Prasad Swain	Template:Full party name with color
	147	Anandapur (SC)	Makar Sethi	Template:Full party name with color

Government Formation

The Janata Party emerged again as the winner by winning 78% of the seats with a vote share of 49%. Nilamani Routray become the Chief Minister of the state.

See also

• 1977 elections in India
• 1974 Orissa Legislative Assembly election
• 1980 Orissa Legislative Assembly election