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.

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All 147 seats in the Orissa Legislative Assembly
74 seats needed for a majority

Registered

24,188,320

Turnout

59.10%

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Naveen Pattanaik		Hemananda Biswal
Party	BJD	BJP	INC
Alliance	NDA	NDA
Leader's seat	Hinjili		Laikera
Seats before	New	9	80
Seats won	68	38	26
Seat change	New	29	54
Popular vote	29.40%	18.20%	33.78%

CM before election

Hemananda Biswal
INC

Elected CM

Naveen Patnaik
Biju Janata Dal (NDA)

Parties and alliances

National Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	BJD			Naveen Patnaik	84
	BJP			Jual Oram	63

United Progressive Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Indian National Congress			Hemananda Biswal	145

Others

Party		Flag	Symbol	Contesting Seats
	TMC			36
	Communist Party of India			29
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			15
	Janata Dal (Secular)			24
	JMM			21

Results



Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	4,770,654	33.78	–5.30	26	+12
	Biju Janata Dal	4,151,895	29.40	New	68	New
	Bharatiya Janata Party	2,570,074	18.20	+10.32	38	+12
	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	301,729	2.14	+0.20	3	–1
	Communist Party of India	172,398	1.22	–0.49	1	Steady
	Bahujan Samaj Party	162,184	1.15	+0.65	0	0
	Janata Dal (Secular)	118,978	0.84	New	1	New
	Trinamool Congress	110,056	0.78	New	1	New
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	109,256	0.77	+0.11	1	+1
	Janata Dal (United)	48,135	0.34	New	0	New
	Nationalist Congress Party	34,986	0.25	New	0	New
	Samajwadi Party	20,480	0.14	New	0	New
	Shiv Sena	18,794	0.13	New	0	New
	Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh	6,815	0.05	New	0	New
	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation	4,198	0.03	–0.02	0	0
	Samata Party	3,732	0.03	–0.29	0	0
	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	3,051	0.02	–1.34	0	0
	Samajwadi Jan Parishad	2,412	0.02	New	0	New
	Rashtriya Janata Dal	2,078	0.01	New	0	New
	Bira Oriya Party	1,520	0.01	New	0	New
	Proutist Sarva Samaj Samiti	1,341	0.01	–0.05	0	0
	Jharkhand Party	1,209	0.01	–0.03	0	0
	All India Forward Bloc	795	0.01	+0.01	0	0
	Odisha Communist Party	630	0.00	–0.16	0	0
	Ajeya Bharat Party	559	0.00	New	0	New
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	294	0.00	New	0	New
	Independents	1,506,216	10.66	+0.15	8	+2
Total		14,124,469	100.00	–	147	0

Valid votes		14,124,469	98.81
Invalid/blank votes		170,284	1.19
Total votes		14,294,753	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		24,188,320	59.10
Source: Election Commission of India

Elected members

District	AC. No.	Constituency	Member
Mayurbhanj	1	Karanjia (ST)	Padma Charan Haiburu	Independent
	2	Jashipur (ST)	Bhanu Charan Naik	Bharatiya Janata Party
	3	Bahalda (ST)	Laxman Soren	Bharatiya Janata Party
	4	Rairangpur (ST)	Droupadi Murmu	Bharatiya Janata Party
	5	Bangriposi (ST)	Purusottama Naik	Independent
	6	Kuliana (ST)	Sudam Marndi	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
	7	Baripada	Kishore Dash	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
	8	Baisinga (ST)	Kandra Soren	Bharatiya Janata Party
	9	Khunta (ST)	Golak Bihari Naik	Bharatiya Janata Party
	10	Udala (ST)	Bhaskara Madhei	Bharatiya Janata Party
Balasore	11	Bhograi	Kamala Das	Biju Janata Dal
	12	Jaleswar	Jayanarayan Mohanty	Indian National Congress
	13	Basta	Raghunath Mohanty	Biju Janata Dal
	14	Balasore	Jiban Pradip Dash	Bharatiya Janata Party
	15	Soro	Kartik Mohapatra	Indian National Congress
	16	Simulia	Parsuram Panigrahi	Biju Janata Dal
	17	Nilgiri	Pradipta Panda	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Bhadrak	18	Bhandaripokhari (SC)	Ratha Das	Biju Janata Dal
	19	Bhadrak	Biren Palei	Indian National Congress
	20	Dhamnagar	Manas Ranjan Mallik	Independent
	21	Chandbali (SC)	Bishnu Charan Sethi	Bharatiya Janata Party
	22	Basudevpur	Bijayshree Routray	Biju Janata Dal
Jajpur	23	Sukinda	Prafulla Chandra Ghadai	Biju Janata Dal
	24	Korai	Ashok Kumar Das	Janata Dal (Secular)
	25	Jajpur (SC)	Surjyamani Jena	Biju Janata Dal
	26	Dharamsala	Kalpataru Das	Biju Janata Dal
	27	Barchana	Amar Prasad Satpathy	Biju Janata Dal
	28	Bari-Derabisi	Debasis Nayak	Biju Janata Dal
	29	Binjharpur (SC)	Pramila Mallik	Biju Janata Dal
Kendrapara	30	Aul	Pratap Keshari Deb	Biju Janata Dal
	31	Patamundai (SC)	Tapash Kumar Das	Biju Janata Dal
	32	Rajnagar	Nalini Kanta Mohanty	Biju Janata Dal
	33	Kendrapara	Bed Prakash Agarwal	Bharatiya Janata Party
	34	Patkura	Trilochan Behera	All India Trinamool Congress
Jagatsinghpur	35	Tirtol	Debashish Samantaray	Biju Janata Dal
	36	Ersama	Damodar Rout	Biju Janata Dal
	37	Balikuda	Umesh Chandra Swain	Indian National Congress
	38	Jagatsinghpur (SC)	Bishnu Charan Das	Biju Janata Dal
Cuttack	39	Kissannagar	Pratap Jena	Biju Janata Dal
	40	Mahanga	Sarat Kumar Kar	Biju Janata Dal
	41	Salepur (SC)	Kalindi Behera	Biju Janata Dal
	42	Gobindpur	Panchanan Kanungo	Biju Janata Dal
	43	Cuttack Sadar	Nibedita Pradhan	Bharatiya Janata Party
	44	Cuttack City	Samir Dey	Bharatiya Janata Party
	45	Choudwar	Bidhubhusan Praharaj	Independent
	46	Banki	Pravat Tripathy	Biju Janata Dal
	47	Athgarh	Ranendra Pratap Swain	Biju Janata Dal
	48	Baramba	Debi Prasad Mishra	Biju Janata Dal
Khurda	49	Balipatna (SC)	Raghaba Chandra Sethi	Biju Janata Dal
	50	Bhubaneswar	Biswabhusan Harichandan	Bharatiya Janata Party
	51	Jatni	Suresh Kumar Routray	Indian National Congress
Puri	52	Pipli	Pradeep Maharathy	Biju Janata Dal
	53	Nimapara (SC)	Baidhar Malik	Bharatiya Janata Party
	54	Kakatpur	Surendra Nath Naik	Biju Janata Dal
	55	Satyabadi	Prasad Kumar Harichandan	Indian National Congress
	56	Puri	Maheswar Mohanty	Biju Janata Dal
	57	Brahmagiri	Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra	Indian National Congress
Khurda	58	Chilka	Bibhuti Bhusan Harichandan	Bharatiya Janata Party
	59	Khurda	Jyotirindra Nath Mitra	Independent
	60	Begunia	Prashanta Nanda	Bharatiya Janata Party
Nayagarh	61	Ranpur	Ramakanta Mishra	Indian National Congress
	62	Nayagarh	Bhagabat Behera	Biju Janata Dal
	63	Khandapara	Bijayalaxmi Pattnaik	Biju Janata Dal
	64	Daspalla	Hariharan Karan	Indian National Congress
Ganjam	65	Jaganathprasad (SC)	Simanchala Behera	Indian National Congress
	66	Bhanjanagar	Bikram Keshari Arukha	Biju Janata Dal
	67	Suruda	Usha Rani Panda	Indian National Congress
	68	Aska	Debaraj Mohanty	Biju Janata Dal
	69	Kavisuryanagar	Nityananda Pradhan	Communist Party of India
	70	Kodala	Ram Krushna Patnaik	Biju Janata Dal
	71	Khallikote	V. Sugnana Kumari Deo	Biju Janata Dal
	72	Chatrapur	Rama Chandra Panda	Bharatiya Janata Party
	73	Hinjili	Naveen Patnaik	Biju Janata Dal
	74	Gopalpur (SC)	Rama Chandra Sethy	Biju Janata Dal
	75	Berhampur	Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik	Biju Janata Dal
	76	Chikiti	Usha Devi	Biju Janata Dal
Gajapati	77	Mohana	Surjya Narayan Patro	Biju Janata Dal
	78	Ramagiri (ST)	Haladhar Karji	Indian National Congress
	79	Parlakhemundi	Trinath Sahu	Indian National Congress
Rayagada	80	Gunupur (ST)	Rammurthy Gamango	Bharatiya Janata Party
	81	Bissam-cuttack (ST)	Sarangadhar Kadraka	Biju Janata Dal
	82	Rayagada (ST)	Lal Bihari Himirika	Biju Janata Dal
Koraput	83	Lakshmipur (ST)	Bibhisana Majhi	Biju Janata Dal
	84	Pottangi (ST)	Jayaram Pangi	Biju Janata Dal
	85	Koraput	Tara Prasad Bahinipati	Indian National Congress
Malkangiri	86	Malkangiri (SC)	Arabinda Dhali	Bharatiya Janata Party
Malkangiri	87	Chitrakonda (ST)	Mamta Madhi	Indian National Congress
Koraput	88	Kotpad (ST)	Basudev Majhi	Indian National Congress
Koraput	89	Jeypore	Rabi Narayan Nanda	Biju Janata Dal
Nowrangpur	90	Nowrangpur	Habibulla Khan	Indian National Congress
	91	Kodinga (ST)	Sadan Nayak	Indian National Congress
	92	Dabugam (ST)	Bhujabal Majhi	Indian National Congress
	93	Umarkote (ST)	Parama Pujari	Indian National Congress
Nawapara	94	Nawapara	Basanta Kumar Panda	Bharatiya Janata Party
Nawapara	95	Khariar	Duryodhan Majhi	Biju Janata Dal
Kalahandi	96	Dharamgarh (SC)	Bira Sipka	Biju Janata Dal
	97	Koksara	Rosni Singh Deo	Biju Janata Dal
	98	Junagarh	Himansu Sekhar Meher	Bharatiya Janata Party
	99	Bhawanipatna (SC)	Pradipta Kumar Naik	Bharatiya Janata Party
	100	Narla (ST)	Balabhadra Majhi	Biju Janata Dal
	101	Kesinga	Dhaneswar Majhi	Bharatiya Janata Party
Kandhamal	102	Balliguda (ST)	Surendra Kanhar	Bharatiya Janata Party
	103	Udayagiri (ST)	Saluga Pradhan	Biju Janata Dal
	104	Phulbani (SC)	Bishnu Priya Behera	Biju Janata Dal
Boudh	105	Boudh	Pradip Kumar Amat	Independent
Balangir	106	Titilagarh (SC)	Jogendra Behera	Biju Janata Dal
	107	Kantabanji	Santosh Singh Saluja	Indian National Congress
	108	Patnagarh	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo	Bharatiya Janata Party
	109	Saintala	Surendra Singh Bhoi	Indian National Congress
	110	Loisingha	Balgopal Mishra	Bharatiya Janata Party
	111	Bolangir	Ananga Udaya Singh Deo	Biju Janata Dal
Subarnapur	112	Sonepur (SC)	Kunduru Kushal	Biju Janata Dal
	113	Binka	Niranjan Pujari	Biju Janata Dal
	114	Birmaharajpur	Baishnaba Padhan	Biju Janata Dal
Angul	115	Athmallik	Nagendra Kumar Pradhan	Biju Janata Dal
Angul	116	Angul	Adwait Prasad Singh	Biju Janata Dal
Dhenkanal	117	Hindol (SC)	Anjali Behera	Biju Janata Dal
	118	Dhenkanal	Krushna Chandra Patra	Bharatiya Janata Party
	119	Gondia	Nabin Nanda	Biju Janata Dal
Angul	120	Kamakhyanagar	Brahmananda Biswal	Biju Janata Dal
	121	Pallahara	Dharmendra Pradhan	Bharatiya Janata Party
	122	Talcher (SC)	Mahesh Sahoo	Bharatiya Janata Party
Bargarh	123	Padampur	Bijaya Ranjan Singh Bariha	Biju Janata Dal
	124	Melchhamunda	Prakash Chandra Debta	Indian National Congress
	125	Bijepur	Ashok Kumar Panigrahy	Biju Janata Dal
	126	Bhatli (SC)	Bimbadhar Kuanr	Bharatiya Janata Party
	127	Bargarh	Ananda Acharya	Biju Janata Dal
Sambalpur	128	Sambalpur	Jayanarayan Mishra	Bharatiya Janata Party
Jharsuguda	129	Brajarajnagar	Anup Kumar Sai	Indian National Congress
	130	Jharsuguda	Kishore Kumar Mohanty	Biju Janata Dal
	131	Laikera (ST)	Hemananda Biswal	Indian National Congress
Sambalpur	132	Kuchinda (ST)	Rabi Narayan Naik	Bharatiya Janata Party
Sambalpur	133	Rairakhol (SC)	Durjodhan Sohela	Biju Janata Dal
Deogarh	134	Deogarh	Subash Chandra Panigrahi	Bharatiya Janata Party
Sundergarh	135	Sundargarh	Shankarsan Naik	Bharatiya Janata Party
	136	Talsara (ST)	Gajadhar Majhi	Indian National Congress
	137	Rajgangpur (ST)	Mangala Kisan	Biju Janata Dal
	138	Biramitrapur (ST)	George Tirkey	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
	139	Rourkela	Ajit Das	Biju Janata Dal
	140	Raghunathpali (ST)	Shankar Oram	Bharatiya Janata Party
	141	Bonai (ST)	Dayanidhi Kisan	Bharatiya Janata Party
Keonjhar	142	Champua (ST)	Saharai Oram	Independent
	143	Patna	Gourahari Naik	Bharatiya Janata Party
	144	Keonjhar (ST)	Mohan Charan Majhi	Bharatiya Janata Party
	145	Telkoi (ST)	Niladri Nayak	Biju Janata Dal
	146	Ramchandrapur	Badri Narayan Patra	Independent
	147	Anandapur (SC)	Mayadhar Jena	Bharatiya Janata Party

Govt Formation

Biju Janata Dal joined NDA (BJP's side). The BJD won 68 seats, BJP won 38 seats. Seats won by NDA = BJD + BJP = 68 + 38 = 106 (higher than 74 -- the magic number). Whereas Congress, which was in power earlier, won only 26 seats (not enough for forming govt), overthrowing Sri Hemananda Biswal from power. NDA formed govt and Sri Naveen Patnaik became the CM. He appointed many MLAs from both BJP & BJD as ministers.