Elections to the sixth

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were held 1974.

Constituencies

The elections were held for 147 seats. A total of 722 candidates contested for these 147 seats.

Political parties

Three national parties,

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and Swatantra Party along with the state party Utkal Congress took part in the assembly election. Congress party emerged again as the winner by winning 50% of the seats with a vote share of 37.44%. Nandini Satpathy again become the

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of the state.

Results

List of winning candidate

References

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1970s in Orissa

Constituencies

Political parties

Results

List of winning candidate

See also

References