2000 Orissa Legislative Assembly election

Elections to the Orissa Legislative Assembly were held in February 2000 to elect members of the 147 constituencies in Orissa, India. The BJP and BJD fought election together as NDA. The National Democratic Alliance won the most seats and Naveen Pattanaik was appointed as the Chief Minister of Orissa. The number of constituencies was set as 147 by the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.

Parties and alliances

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As per prepoll alliance, seats where divided into 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			Hemananda Biswal	145

Others

Party		Flag	Symbol	Contesting Seats
Template:Party color cell	Trinamool Congress			36
Template:Party color cell	Communist Party of India			29
Template:Party color cell	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			15
Template:Party color cell	Janata Dal (Secular)			24
Template:Party color cell	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha			21

Elected members

District	AC. No.	Constituency	Member	Party
Mayurbhanj	1	Karanjia (ST)	Padma Charan Haiburu	Template:Party name with color
	2	Jashipur (ST)	Bhanu Charan Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	3	Bahalda (ST)	Laxman Soren	Template:Full party name with color
	4	Rairangpur (ST)	Droupadi Murmu	Template:Full party name with color
	5	Bangriposi (ST)	Purusottama Naik	Template:Party name with color
	6	Kuliana (ST)	Sudam Marndi	Template:Full party name with color
	7	Baripada	Kishore Dash	Template:Full party name with color
	8	Baisinga (ST)	Kandra Soren	Template:Full party name with color
	9	Khunta (ST)	Golak Bihari Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	10	Udala (ST)	Bhaskara Madhei	Template:Full party name with color
Balasore	11	Bhograi	Kamala Das	Template:Full party name with color
	12	Jaleswar	Jayanarayan Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	13	Basta	Raghunath Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	14	Balasore	Jiban Pradip Dash	Template:Full party name with color
	15	Soro	Kartik Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	16	Simulia	Parsuram Panigrahi	Template:Full party name with color
	17	Nilgiri	Pradipta Panda	Template:Full party name with color
Bhadrak	18	Bhandaripokhari (SC)	Ratha Das	Template:Full party name with color
	19	Bhadrak	Biren Palei	Template:Full party name with color
	20	Dhamnagar	Manas Ranjan Mallik	Template:Party name with color
	21	Chandbali (SC)	Bishnu Charan Sethi	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	Ashok Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	25	Jajpur (SC)	Surjyamani Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	26	Dharamsala	Kalpataru Das	Template:Full party name with color
	27	Barchana	Amar Prasad Satpathy	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)	Tapash Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	32	Rajnagar	Nalini Kanta Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	33	Kendrapara	Bed Prakash Agarwal	Template:Full party name with color
	34	Patkura	Trilochan Behera	Template:Full party name with color
Jagatsinghpur	35	Tirtol	Debashish Samantaray	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	Sarat Kumar Kar	Template:Full party name with color
	41	Salepur (SC)	Kalindi Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	42	Gobindpur	Panchanan Kanungo	Template:Full party name with color
	43	Cuttack Sadar	Nibedita Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	44	Cuttack City	Samir Dey	Template:Full party name with color
	45	Choudwar	Bidhubhusan Praharaj	Template:Party name with color
	46	Banki	Pravat Tripathy	Template:Full party name with color
	47	Athgarh	Ranendra Pratap Swain	Template:Full party name with color
	48	Baramba	Debi Prasad Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
Khurda	49	Balipatna (SC)	Raghaba Chandra Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
	50	Bhubaneswar	Biswabhusan Harichandan	Template:Full party name with color
	51	Jatni	Suresh Kumar Routray	Template:Full party name with color
Puri	52	Pipli	Pradeep Maharathy	Template:Full party name with color
	53	Nimapara (SC)	Baidhar Malik	Template:Full party name with color
	54	Kakatpur	Surendra Nath Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	55	Satyabadi	Prasad Kumar Harichandan	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:Party name with color
	60	Begunia	Prashanta Nanda	Template:Full party name with color
Nayagarh	61	Ranpur	Ramakanta Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	62	Nayagarh	Bhagabat Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	63	Khandapara	Bijayalaxmi Pattnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	64	Daspalla	Hariharan Karan	Template:Full party name with color
Ganjam	65	Jaganathprasad (SC)	Simanchala Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	66	Bhanjanagar	Bikram Keshari Arukha	Template:Full party name with color
	67	Suruda	Usha Rani Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	68	Aska	Debaraj Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	69	Kavisuryanagar	Nityananda Pradhan	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	Rama Chandra Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	73	Hinjili	Naveen Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	74	Gopalpur (SC)	Rama Chandra Sethy	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)	Haladhar Karji	Template:Full party name with color
	79	Parlakhemundi	Trinath Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
Rayagada	80	Gunupur (ST)	Rammurthy Gamango	Template:Full party name with color
	81	Bissam-cuttack (ST)	Sarangadhar Kadraka	Template:Full party name with color
	82	Rayagada (ST)	Lal Bihari Himirika	Template:Full party name with color
Koraput	83	Lakshmipur (ST)	Bibhisana 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)	Arabinda Dhali	Template:Full party name with color
	87	Chitrakonda (ST)	Mamta Madhi	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)	Bhujabal Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	93	Umarkote (ST)	Parama Pujari	Template:Full party name with color
Nawapara	94	Nawapara	Basanta Kumar Panda	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	Rosni 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)	Surendra Kanhar	Template:Full party name with color
	103	Udayagiri (ST)	Saluga Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	104	Phulbani (SC)	Bishnu Priya Behera	Template:Full party name with color
Boudh	105	Boudh	Pradip Kumar Amat	Template:Party name with color
Balangir	106	Titilagarh (SC)	Jogendra Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	107	Kantabanji	Santosh Singh Saluja	Template:Full party name with color
	108	Patnagarh	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	109	Saintala	Surendra Singh Bhoi	Template:Full party name with color
	110	Loisingha	Balgopal Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	111	Bolangir	Ananga Udaya Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
Subarnapur	112	Sonepur (SC)	Kunduru Kushal	Template:Full party name with color
	113	Binka	Niranjan Pujari	Template:Full party name with color
	114	Birmaharajpur	Baishnaba Padhan	Template:Full party name with color
Angul	115	Athmallik	Nagendra Kumar Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	116	Angul	Adwait Prasad Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Dhenkanal	117	Hindol (SC)	Anjali Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	118	Dhenkanal	Krushna Chandra Patra	Template:Full party name with color
	119	Gondia	Nabin Nanda	Template:Full party name with color
Angul	120	Kamakhyanagar	Brahmananda Biswal	Template:Full party name with color
	121	Pallahara	Dharmendra Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	122	Talcher (SC)	Mahesh Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color
Bargarh	123	Padampur	Bijaya Ranjan Singh Bariha	Template:Full party name with color
	124	Melchhamunda	Prakash Chandra Debta	Template:Full party name with color
	125	Bijepur	Ashok Kumar Panigrahy	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)	Hemananda Biswal	Template:Full party name with color
Sambalpur	132	Kuchinda (ST)	Rabi Narayan Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	133	Rairakhol (SC)	Durjodhan Sohela	Template:Full party name with color
Deogarh	134	Deogarh	Subash Chandra Panigrahi	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)	Mangala Kisan	Template:Full party name with color
	138	Biramitrapur (ST)	George Tirkey	Template:Full party name with color
	139	Rourkela	Ajit Das	Template:Full party name with color
	140	Raghunathpali (ST)	Shankar Oram	Template:Full party name with color
	141	Bonai (ST)	Dayanidhi Kisan	Template:Full party name with color
Keonjhar	142	Champua (ST)	Saharai Oram	Template: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	Badri Narayan Patra	Template:Party name with color
	147	Anandapur (SC)	Mayadhar Jena	Template:Full party name with color

Analysis & Govt Formation

Due to poor handling of 1999 Odisha cyclone and rise in corruption & criminal cases etc. led to rise of unpopularity of Congress, which eventually led to their dismissal performance in 2000 election.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik along with 14 Cabinet Ministers, 6 Minister of State with Independent Charges and 4 Minister of State were administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor M. M. Rajendran at the Raj Bhavan, Bhubaneswar on 5 March 2000. The BJD had the larger share of representation in the ministry with 16 ministers including the Chief Minister while the BJP had 9.

See also

• List of constituencies of the Odisha Legislative Assembly
• 2000 elections in India