2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election

The 2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election took place in April 2009, concurrently with the general election. The elections were held in the state in two phases. The results were declared on 16 May. Despite having recently separated from the Bharatiya Janata Party after an eleven-year partnership, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) retained power in the Odisha State Assembly with a more convincing majority. Party chief Naveen Patnaik was formally re-elected as the BJD Legislature party leader on 19 May,[2] thus paving the way for his third consecutive term as the Chief Minister of Odisha.

2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election
16, 23 April 2009
All 147 Assembly Constituencies
74 seats needed for a majority
Turnout65.35%[1]
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Naveen Patnaik Bhupinder Singh
Party BJD INC
Alliance TF UPA
Leader since 1996
Leader's seat Hinjili Narla
Last election 2004 2004
Seats before 61 38
Seats won 103 27
Seat change Increase 42 Decrease 11
Popular vote 6,903,641 5,169,559
Percentage 38.86% 29.10%
Swing Increase 11.50% Decrease 5.72%
Odisha District Map
Chief Minister before election

Naveen Patnaik
BJD

 Elected Chief Minister

Naveen Patnaik
BJD

Previous Assembly

In the 2004 Orissa Assembly election, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had swept the state with the BJD winning 61 seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning 32 seats, giving the alliance comfortable majority in the 147-member house. This was the second consecutive term for the BJD-BJP combine after they first formed the government in 2000.[3] The Naveen Patnaik government had been sworn in at the Bhubaneswar Raj Bhavan by Odisha Governor M. M. Rajendran in May 2004.[4]

Background

With the tenure of the Orissa Assembly scheduled to expire on 29 June 2009, the Election Commission of India announced[5] on 2 March that year that the elections to the Assembly would be held alongside the general election. The election in each Assembly constituency (AC) was held in the same phase as the election to the corresponding Parliamentary constituency that the AC fell under.

Seat-sharing discussions got underway between allies, after eleven years of partnership and nearly two full terms as the Orissa state government, the BJD snapped ties with the BJP in March 2009, blaming the latter for the 2008 violence against Christians.[6] Thereafter, the BJP withdrew support to Government and Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare asked Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to prove his majority in the Orissa Assembly.[7] Naveen Patnaik then won a controversial trust vote on 11 May 2009, after the opposition Congress and BJP legislators walked out of the Assembly in protest in the manner the vote was being conducted.[8]

The BJD then declared that they support neither Congress nor BJP.[9] Though they decided to contest the 2009 elections in partnership with the Left Front and Nationalist Congress Party, the BJD did not officially join the Third Front.[10]

Schedule of election
Poll Event Phase 1 Phase 2
Announcement & Issue of Press Note Monday, 02 Mar 2009
Issue of Notification Monday, 23 Mar 2009 Saturday, 28 Mar 2009
Last Date for filing Nominations Monday, 30 Mar 2009 Saturday, 04 Apr 2009
Scrutiny of Nominations Tuesday, 31 Mar 2009 Monday, 06 Apr 2009
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature Thursday, 02 Apr 2009 Wednesday, 08 Apr 2009
Date of Poll Thursday, 16 Apr 2009 Thursday, 23 Apr 2009
Counting of Votes on Saturday, 16 May 2009
Date of election being completed Thursday, 28 May 2009
Constituencies Polling on this day 70 77
Source: Election Commission of India[5]
Location of Orissa in India

Results

Government formation

Despite fighting against both BJP & Congress, the BJD emerged victorious with more than two-thirds majority in the 147 member Legislative Assembly. Naveen Patnaik was sworn in for his third consecutive term by Governor M.C. Bhandare on 2009-05-21 at the Bhubaneswar Raj Bhavan.[11]

Number of seats
Party Flag Seats won Seats change Popular vote Vote share Swing
Biju Janata Dal 103 +42 6,903,641 38.86% +11.50%
Indian National Congress 27 -11 5,169,559 29.10% -5.72%
Bharatiya Janata Party 6 -26 2,674,067 15.05% -2.06%
Independent 6 -2 1,536,745 8.65% -3.55%
Nationalist Congress Party 4 +4 237,528 1.34% +1.34%
Communist Party of India 1 +0 89,852 0.51% -0.26%
Source: Election Commission of India [12][13]

Number of candidates
Party Type Code Party Name Number of
candidates		 Total
National Parties BJP Bharatiya Janata Party 145 423
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party 114
CPI Communist Party of India 5
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4
INC Indian National Congress 147
NCP Nationalist Congress Party 8
State Parties BJD Biju Janata Dal 129 161
JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 32
State Parties -
Other States		 AITC All India Trinamool Congress 5 86
JD(U) Janata Dal (United) 10
LJP Lok Jan Shakti Party 8
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party 18
SP Samajwadi Party 45
Unrecognised or
Unregistered Parties		 AJSU All Jharkhand Students Union 4 247
BJSH Bharatiya Jan Shakti 3
BOP Bira Oriya Party 1
CPI(ML)(L) Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation 17
IJP Indian Justice Party 5
JDP Jharkhand Disom Party 6
JHKP Jana Hitkari Party 7
JKP Jharkhand Party 1
KOKD Kosal Kranti Dal 18
KS Kalinga Sena 36
LSP Lok Satta Party 1
OCP Orissa Communist Party 2
OMM Orissa Mukti Morcha 8
RPD Rashtriya Parivartan Dal 16
RPI Republican Party of India 5
RPI(A) Republican Party of India (Athavale) 13
RWS Rashtrawadi Sena 4
SAMO Samurdha Odisha 99
SWJP Samajwadi Jan Parishad 1
Independents n/a Independents 371 371
Total: 1288
Source: Election Commission of India[1]

Elected members
Constituency Reserved for
(SC/ST/None)		 Member Party
PadampurNoneBijaya Ranjan Singh Bariha Biju Janata Dal
BijepurNoneSubal Sahu Indian National Congress
BargarhNoneSadhu Nepak Indian National Congress
AttabiraSCNihar Ranjan Mahananda Indian National Congress
BhatliNoneSusanta Singh Biju Janata Dal
BrajarajnagarNoneAnup Kumar Sai Indian National Congress
JharsugudaNoneNaba Kishore Das Indian National Congress
TalsaraSTDr. Prafulla Majhi Indian National Congress
SundargarhSTJogesh Kumar Singh Indian National Congress
BiramitrapurSTGeorge Tirkey Independent
RaghunathpaliSCSubrat Tarai Biju Janata Dal
RourkelaNoneSarada Prasad Nayak Biju Janata Dal
RajgangapurSTGregory Minz Indian National Congress
BonaiSTBhimsen Choudhury Bharatiya Janata Party
KuchindaSTRajendra Kumar Chhatria Indian National Congress
RengaliSCDuryodhan Gardia Indian National Congress
SambalpurNoneJayanarayan Mishra Bharatiya Janata Party
RairakholNonePrasanna Acharya Biju Janata Dal
DeogarhNoneSanjeeb Kumar Pradhan Biju Janata Dal
TelkoiSTPremananda Nayak Biju Janata Dal
GhasipuraNoneBadrinarayan Patra Biju Janata Dal
AnandapurSCBhagirathi Sethy Biju Janata Dal
PatnaSTHrusikesh Naik Biju Janata Dal
KeonjharSTSubarna Naik Biju Janata Dal
ChampuaNoneJitu Patnaik Independent
JashipurSTKamala Kanta Nayak Biju Janata Dal
SaraskanaSTRama Chandra Hansdah Nationalist Congress Party
RairangpurSTShyam Charan Hansdah Indian National Congress
BangriposiSTSarojini Hembram Biju Janata Dal
KaranjiaSTBijay Kumar Naik Biju Janata Dal
UdalaSTShrinath Soren Biju Janata Dal
BadasahiSCManoranjan Sethi Biju Janata Dal
BaripadaSTSananda Marandi Biju Janata Dal
MoradaNonePraveen Chandra Bhanjdeo Biju Janata Dal
JaleswarNoneDebi Prasanna Chand Indian National Congress
BhograiNoneAnanta Das Biju Janata Dal
BastaNoneRaghunath Mohanty Biju Janata Dal
BalasoreNoneJiban Pradip Dash Biju Janata Dal
RemunaSCSudarshan Jena Biju Janata Dal
NilgiriNonePratap Chandra Sarangi Independent
SoroSCSurendra Prasad Pramanik Indian National Congress
SimuliaNoneParsuram Panigrahi Biju Janata Dal
BhandaripokhariNonePrafulla Samal Biju Janata Dal
BhadrakNoneJugal Kishore Pattnaik Biju Janata Dal
BasudevpurNoneBijayshree Routray Biju Janata Dal
DhamnagarSCRajendra Kumar Das Biju Janata Dal
ChandabaliNoneBijaya Nayak Biju Janata Dal
BinjharpurSCPramila Mallik Biju Janata Dal
BariNoneDebasis Nayak Biju Janata Dal
BarchanaNoneAmar Prasad Satpathy Nationalist Congress Party
DharmasalaNoneKalpataru Das Biju Janata Dal
JajpurNonePranab Prakash Das Biju Janata Dal
KoreiNonePritiranjan Gharai Biju Janata Dal
SukindaNonePrafulla Chandra Ghadai Biju Janata Dal
DhenkanalNoneNabin Nanda Nationalist Congress Party
HindolSCAnjali Behera Biju Janata Dal
KamakhyanagarNonePrafulla Kumar Mallik Biju Janata Dal
ParjangaNoneDr. Nrusingha Sahu Biju Janata Dal
PallaharaNoneRabi Narayan Pani Biju Janata Dal
TalcherNoneBraja Kishore Pradhan Independent
AngulNoneRajani Kant Singh Biju Janata Dal
ChhendipadaSCKhageswar Behera Biju Janata Dal
AthamallikNoneSanjeeb Kumar Sahoo Biju Janata Dal
BirmaharajpurSCPadmanabh Behera Biju Janata Dal
SonepurNoneNiranjan Pujari Biju Janata Dal
LoisinghaSCRamakanta Seth Biju Janata Dal
PatnagarhNoneKanak Vardhan Singh Deo Bharatiya Janata Party
BolangirNoneAnang Uday Singh Deo Biju Janata Dal
TitlagarhNoneSurendra Singh Bhoi Indian National Congress
KantabanjiNoneSantosh Singh Saluja Indian National Congress
NuapadaNoneRajendra Dholakia Biju Janata Dal
KhariarNoneHitesh Kumar Bagartti Bharatiya Janata Party
UmarkoteSTJagabandhu Majhi Biju Janata Dal
JharigamSTRamesh Chandra Majhi Biju Janata Dal
NabarangpurSTManohar Randhari Biju Janata Dal
DabugamSTBhujabal Majhi Indian National Congress
LanjigarhSTShibaji Majhi Indian National Congress
JunagarhNoneGobardhan Dash Indian National Congress
DharmgarhNonePuspendra Singh Deo Biju Janata Dal
BhawanipatnaSCDusmanta Naik Indian National Congress
NarlaNoneBhupinder Singh Indian National Congress
BaligudaSTKarendra Majhi Bharatiya Janata Party
G. UdayagiriSTManoj Kumar Pradhan Bharatiya Janata Party
PhulbaniSTDebendra Kanhar Biju Janata Dal
KantamalNoneBhagban Kanhor Biju Janata Dal
BoudhNonePradip Kumar Amat Biju Janata Dal
BarambaNoneDebiprasad Mishra Biju Janata Dal
BankiNonePravata Kumar Tripathy Biju Janata Dal
AthagarhNoneRamesh Rout Independent
Barabati-cuttackNoneDebashish Samantaray Biju Janata Dal
Choudwar-cuttackNonePravat Ranjan Biswal Biju Janata Dal
NialiSCPramod Kumar Mallick Biju Janata Dal
Cuttack SadarSCKalindi Behera Biju Janata Dal
SalipurNoneChandra Sarathi Behera Biju Janata Dal
MahangaNonePratap Jena Biju Janata Dal
PatkuraNoneBed Prakash Agrawalla Biju Janata Dal
KendraparaSCSipra Mallick Biju Janata Dal
AulNonePratap Keshari Deb Biju Janata Dal
RajanagarNoneAlekh Kumar Jena Biju Janata Dal
MahakalapadaNoneAtanu Sabyasachi Nayak Biju Janata Dal
ParadeepNoneDamodara Rout Biju Janata Dal
TirtolSCRabindra Nath Bhoi Biju Janata Dal
Balikuda-ersamaNonePrasanta Kumar Muduli Biju Janata Dal
JagatsinghpurNoneBishnu Charan Das Biju Janata Dal
KakatpurSCRabi Mallick Biju Janata Dal
NimaparaNoneSamir Ranjan Dash Biju Janata Dal
PuriNoneMaheswar Mohanty Biju Janata Dal
BramhagiriNoneSanjay Kumar Das Burma Biju Janata Dal
SatyabadiNonePrasad Kumar Harichandan Indian National Congress
PipiliNonePradeep Maharathy Biju Janata Dal
JayadevSCArabinda Dhali Biju Janata Dal
Bhubaneswar CentralNone(madhya) Bijaya Kumar Mohanty Biju Janata Dal
Bhubaneswar NorthNone(uttar) Bhagirathi Badajena Biju Janata Dal
Ekamra-bhubaneswarNoneAshok Chandra Panda Biju Janata Dal
JataniNoneBibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray Biju Janata Dal
BeguniaNonePrashanta Nanda Nationalist Congress Party
KhurdaNoneRajendra Ku. Sahoo Independent
ChilikaNoneRaghunath Sahu Biju Janata Dal
RanpurNoneSatyanarayan Pradhan Biju Janata Dal
KhandapadaNoneSiddharth Sekhar Singh Biju Janata Dal
DaspallaSCKashinath Mallik Biju Janata Dal
NayagarhNoneArun Kumar Sahu Biju Janata Dal
BhanjanagarNoneBikram Keshari Arukha Biju Janata Dal
PolasaraNoneNiranjan Pradhan Biju Janata Dal
KabisuryangarNoneV. Sugnana Kumari Deo Biju Janata Dal
KhalikoteSCPurna Chandra Sethy Biju Janata Dal
ChhatrapurSCAdikanda Sethi Communist Party of India
AskaNoneDebaraj Mohanty Biju Janata Dal
SuradaNonePurna Chandra Swain Biju Janata Dal
SanakhemundiNoneRamesh Chandra Jena Indian National Congress
HinjiliNoneNaveen Patnaik Biju Janata Dal
GopalpurNoneDr.pradeep Kumar Panigrahy Biju Janata Dal
BerhampurNoneDr.ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik Biju Janata Dal
DigapahandiNoneSurya Narayana Patro Biju Janata Dal
ChikitiNoneUsha Devi Biju Janata Dal
MohanaSTChakradhara Paik Indian National Congress
ParalakhemundiNoneK.narayana Rao Biju Janata Dal
GunupurSTRamamurty Mutika Biju Janata Dal
Bissam CuttackSTDamburudhara Ulaka Indian National Congress
RayagadaSTLal Bihari Himirika Biju Janata Dal
LaxmipurSTJhina Hikaka Biju Janata Dal
KotpadSTBasudev Majhi Indian National Congress
JeyporeNoneRabi Narayan Nanda Biju Janata Dal
KoraputSCRaghuram Padal Biju Janata Dal
PottangiSTRama Chandra Kadam Indian National Congress
MalkangiriSTMukunda Sodi Biju Janata Dal
ChitrakondaSTMamta Madhi Indian National Congress

See also

References
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