Elections to the Ninth

Odisha Legislative Assembly The Odisha Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Odisha state in India. The seat of the Legislative Assembly is at Bhubaneswar, the capital of the state. The Legislative Assembly comprises 147 Members of Legislative Ass ...

were held in 1985.

Constituencies

The elections were held for 145 instead of 147 constituencies as a result of some candidates death contesting in Kakatpur and Keonjhar constituency. Out of 147 seats, 22 were reserved for Scheduled Castes, 33 for Scheduled Tribes and 92 for unreserved seats.

Contesting parties

There are seven national parties

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, JNP,

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, ICS and LKD, One state party

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three registered unrecognised party JKD, JMM and SUC and some

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took part in this assembly election. Indian National Congress emerged as the winner by winning 117 seats. Janaki Ballabh Patnaik become the

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of Odisha and was replaced by Hemananda Biswal for the last few months of this assembly tenure.

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become the Leader of Opposition in the 9th Orissa Assembly.

Results

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Elected members

References

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