1980 Orissa Legislative Assembly election

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Elections to the 8th Odisha Legislative Assembly were held 1980.

Constituencies

The elections were held for 147 constituencies, of which 22 were reserved for Scheduled Castes, 34 for Scheduled Tribes and 91 unreserved.

Contesting parties

There are eight national parties CPI, INC(I), INC(U), BJP, JNP, CPM, Charan Singh JNP(SC) and Raj Narain JNP(JP), Two state parties FBL and RSP, two registered unrecognised parties JKD and SUC and some Independent Politicians took part in this assembly election. Indian National Congress (I) emerged as the winner by winning 118 seats. Janaki Ballabh Patnaik became the Chief Minister and Sarata Deb (ଶରତ ଦେବ) became the Leader of Opposition in the 8th Orissa Assembly.

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 National Congress Flag.svg	Indian National Congress (I)	File:Hand INC.svg	3,037,487	47.78	Template:Increase 16.76	147	118	Template:Increase 92
Template:Party color cell	File:BLD Symbol.jpg	Janata Party (Secular)	File:BLD Symbol.jpg	1,238,745	19.49	(new)	110	13	(new)
Template:Party color cell	-	Indian National Congress (U)	-	446,818	7.03	(new)	98	2	(new)
Template:Party color cell		Communist Party of India		323,411	5.09	Template:Increase 1.52	27	4	Template:Increase 3
Template:Party color cell		Janata Party		262,903	4.14	Template:Decrease 45.03	31	3	Template:Decrease 107
Template:Party color cell	-	Independents	-	755,087	11.88	Template:Decrease 1.38	248	7	Template:Decrease 2
Total				-	100	-	-	147	-
Valid Votes				6,357,005	45.70
Invalid Votes				192,069	-
Total Votes polled / turnout				6,549,074	47.08
Abstentation				7,360,041	-
Total No. of Electors				13,909,115

Elected members

District	AC. No.	Constituency	Member	Party
Mayurbhanj	1	Karanjia (ST)	Raghunath Hembram	Template:Full party name with color
	2	Jashipur (ST)	Sundar Mohan Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	3	Bahalda (ST)	Rama Chandra Hansdah	Template:Full party name with color
	4	Rairangpur (ST)	Sidhalal Murmu	Template:Full party name with color
	5	Bangriposi (ST)	Kangoi Singh	Template:Full party name with color
	6	Kuliana (ST)	Saraswati Hembram	Template:Full party name with color
	7	Baripada	Prasanna Kumar Dash	Template:Full party name with color
	8	Baisinga (ST)	Kuanria Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	9	Khunta (ST)	Ramesh Soren	Template:Full party name with color
	10	Udala (ST)	Rauaneswar Madhei	Template:Full party name with color
Baleshwar	11	Bhograi	Kartikeswar Patra	Template:Full party name with color
	12	Jaleswar	Gadadhar Giri	Template:Full party name with color
	13	Basta	Bhopal Chandra Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	14	Balasore	Arun Dey	Template:Full party name with color
	15	Soro	Pitambar Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	16	Simulia	Parsuram Panigrahi	Template:Full party name with color
	17	Nilgiri	Akshaya Kumar Acharya	Template:Full party name with color
	18	Bhandaripokhari (SC)	Purusottam Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
	19	Bhadrak	Jugal Kishore Pattanaik	Template:Full party name with color
	20	Dhamnagar	Jagannath Rout	Template:Full party name with color
	21	Chandbali (SC)	Netrananda Mallick	Template:Full party name with color
	22	Basudevpur	Jagabandhu Das	Template:Full party name with color
Cuttack	23	Sukinda	Sarat Rout	Template:Full party name with color
	24	Korai	Ashok Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	25	Jajpur (SC)	Niranjan Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	26	Dharamsala	Kangali Panda	Template:Party name with color
	27	Barchana	Sitakanta Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	28	Bari-Derabisi	Srikant Kumar Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	29	Binjharpur (SC)	Naba Kishore Mallik	Template:Full party name with color
	30	Aul	Sarat Deb	Template:Full party name with color
	31	Patamundai (SC)	Biswanath Mallik	Template:Full party name with color
	32	Rajnagar	Nalinikanta Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	33	Kendrapara	Indramani Rout	Template:Full party name with color
	34	Patkura	Biju Pattanaik	Template:Full party name with color
	35	Tirtol	Basant Kumar Biswal	Template:Full party name with color
	36	Ersama	Damodar Rout	Template:Full party name with color
	37	Balikuda	Basudeba Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	38	Jagatsinghpur (SC)	Krushna Chandra Mallik	Template:Full party name with color
	39	Kissannagar	Surendranath Patnaik	Template:Party name with color
	40	Mahanga	Sk. Matlub Ali	Template:Full party name with color
	41	Salepur (SC)	Mayadhar Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
	42	Gobindpur	Antarjyami Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	43	Cuttack Sadar	Dolagobinda Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	44	Cuttack City	Srikant Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	45	Choudwar	Kahnu Charan Lenka	Template:Full party name with color
	46	Banki	Akshaya Kumar Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	47	Athgarh	Rasananda Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color
	48	Baramba	Samir Kumar Routray	Template:Full party name with color
Puri	49	Balipatna (SC)	Basanta Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	50	Bhubaneswar	Rama Krushna Pati	Template:Full party name with color
	51	Jatni	Suresh Kumar Routray	Template:Full party name with color
	52	Pipli	Bipin Das	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	Rabindra Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	56	Puri	Gadadhar Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	57	Brahmagiri	Gangadhar Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	58	Chilka	Debendranath Mansingh	Template:Full party name with color
	59	Khurda	Prasanna Kumar Patsani	Template:Full party name with color
	60	Begunia	Kailash Chandra Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	61	Ranpur	Ramakant Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	62	Nayagarh	Bansidhara Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color
	63	Khandapara	Bibhuti Bhusan Singh Mardraj	Template:Party name with color
	64	Daspalla	Harihar Karan	Template:Full party name with color
Ganjam	65	Jaganathprasad (SC)	Sribaschha Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	66	Bhanjanagar	Somanath Rath	Template:Full party name with color
	67	Suruda	Gantayat Swain	Template:Full party name with color
	68	Aska	Raghaba Parida	Template:Full party name with color
	69	Kabisuryanagar	Radha Govinda Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
	70	Kodala	Kanhu Charan Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	71	Khallikote	Trinath Samantary	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)	Ghanashyam Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	75	Berhampur	Krushna Charan Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	76	Chikati	Chintamani Dyan Samatra	Template:Party name with color
	77	Mohana	Udaya Narayan Dev	Template:Full party name with color
	78	Ramagiri (ST)	Gorsanga Savara	Template:Full party name with color
	79	Parlakhemundi	Bijoy Kumar Jena	Template:Party name with color
Koraput	80	Gunupur (ST)	Bhagirathi Gamango	Template:Full party name with color
	81	Bissam-cuttack (ST)	Dambarudhar Ulaka	Template:Full party name with color
	82	Rayagada (ST)	Ulaka Ramchandra	Template:Full party name with color
	83	Lakshmipur (ST)	Anantaram Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	84	Pottangi (ST)	Chandrama Santa	Template:Full party name with color
	85	Koraput	Nrusinghananda Brahma	Template:Full party name with color
	86	Malkangiri (SC)	Naka Laxmayya	Template:Full party name with color
	87	Chitrakonda (ST)	Gangadhar Madi	Template:Full party name with color
	88	Kotpad (ST)	Basudev Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	89	Jeypore	Raghunath Pattanaik	Template:Full party name with color
	90	Nowrangpur	Habibulla Khan	Template:Full party name with color
	91	Kodinga (ST)	Dombaru Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	92	Dabugam (ST)	Phulamani Santa	Template:Full party name with color
	93	Umarkote (ST)	Parama Pujari	Template:Full party name with color
Kalahandi	94	Nawapara	Bhanu Prakash Joshi	Template:Full party name with color
	95	Khariar	Anup Singh Deo	Template:Party name with color
	96	Dharamgarh (SC)	Gajanan Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	97	Koksara	Manmohan Mathur	Template:Full party name with color
	98	Junagarh	Maheswar Barad	Template:Full party name with color
	99	Bhawanipatna (SC)	Dayanidhi Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	100	Narla (ST)	Tejraj Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	101	Kesinga	Bhupinder Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Phulabani	102	Balliguda (ST)	Sahura Mallik	Template:Full party name with color
	103	Udayagiri (ST)	Nagarjun Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	104	Phulbani (SC)	Chandra Sekhar Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	105	Boudh	Himanshu Sekhar Pandhi	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	Brajamohan Thakur	Template:Full party name with color
	109	Saintala	Ramesh Chandra Singh Bhoi	Template:Full party name with color
	110	Loisingha	Balgopal Mishra	Template:Party name with color
	111	Bolangir	Mahammad Muzafar Hussain Khan	Template:Full party name with color
	112	Sonepur (SC)	Dhaneswar Kumbhar	Template:Full party name with color
	113	Binka	Pradipta Hota	Template:Full party name with color
	114	Birmaharajpur	Hrushikesh Hota	Template:Full party name with color
Dhenkanal	115	Athmallik	Bhajaman Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	116	Angul	Santosh Kumar Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	117	Hindol (SC)	Trinath Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	118	Dhenkanal	Nandini Satpathy	Template:Full party name with color
	119	Gondia	Haldhar Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	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)	Brundaban Behera	Template:Full party name with color
Sambalpur	123	Padampur	Satya Bhusan Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
	124	Melchhamunda	Prakash Chandra Debta	Template:Full party name with color
	125	Bijepur	Rajib Lochan Hota	Template:Full party name with color
	126	Bhatli (SC)	Mohan Nag	Template:Full party name with color
	127	Bargarh	Jadumani Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	128	Sambalpur	Aswini Kumar Guru	Template:Full party name with color
	129	Brajarajnagar	Upendra Dixit	Template:Full party name with color
	130	Jharsuguda	Birendra Pandey	Template:Full party name with color
	131	Laikera (ST)	Hemananda Biswal	Template:Full party name with color
	132	Kuchinda (ST)	Jagateswar Mirdha	Template:Full party name with color
	133	Rairakhol (SC)	Abhimanyu Kumar	Template:Full party name with color
	134	Deogarh	Aswini Kumar Behera	Template:Full party name with color
Sundergarh	135	Sundargarh	Kishore Chandra Patal	Template:Full party name with color
	136	Talsara (ST)	Gajadhar Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	137	Rajgangpur (ST)	Mukharam Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	138	Biramitrapur (ST)	Jumus Bilung	Template:Full party name with color
	139	Rourkela	Gurupada Nanda	Template:Full party name with color
	140	Raghunathpali (ST)	Nelson Soreng	Template:Full party name with color
	141	Bonai (ST)	Basanta Kumar Dandapat	Template:Full party name with color
Keonjhar	142	Champua (ST)	Saharei Oram	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)	Chandrasen 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