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1977 Odisha Legislative Assembly election
1977 Assembly election in Odisha, India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Elections to the seventh Odisha Legislative Assembly were held 1977.[1]
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Quick facts All 147 seats in the Odisha Legislative Assembly 74 seats needed for a majority, First party ...
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Constituencies
The elections were held for 147 seats. A total of 604 candidates contested for these 147 seats.[2]
Political Parties
In 1974, Utkal Congress merged into Bharatiya Lok Dal to form Odisha Janata Party. Odisha Janata Party which also included Indian National Congress (O) – where "O" stood for "Organisation" or "Old" along with Samyukta Socialist Party and the Bharatiya Jana Sangh came together to form Janata Party to oppose Indira Gandhi and the Congress (R).
Three national parties, Communist Party of India, Indian National Congress, and Janata Party took part in the assembly election.
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Results
More information Party, Popular vote ...
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Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
Color | Flag | Name | Symbol | Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− |
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Janata Party | ![]() |
2,527,787 | 49.17 | (new) | 147 | 110 | (new) | |
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Indian National Congress | ![]() |
1,594,505 | 31.02 | ![]() |
146 | 26 | ![]() | |
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Communist Party of India | ![]() |
183,485 | 3.57 | ![]() |
25 | 1 | ![]() | |
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) | ![]() |
45,219 | 0.88 | ![]() |
4 | 1 | ![]() | |
- | Independents | - | 738,545 | 14.37 | ![]() |
264 | 9 | ![]() | |
Total | - | 100 | - | - | 147 | - | |||
Valid Votes | 5,140,549 | 40.67 | |||||||
Invalid Votes | 140,861 | - | |||||||
Total Votes polled / turnout | 5,281,410 | 41.79 | |||||||
Abstentation | 7,357,972 | - | |||||||
Total No. of Electors | 12,639,382 |
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Elected Members
More information District, AC. No. ...
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Government Formation
The Janata Party emerged again as the winner by winning 78% of the seats with a vote share of 49%. Nilamani Routray become the Chief Minister of the state.
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