Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

2004 Odisha Legislative Assembly election

Assembly elections in Odisha, India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remove ads

Elections to the Orissa Legislative Assembly were held in April 2004 to elect members of the 147 constituencies in Orissa, India. The Bhartiya Janata Party and Biju Janata Dal fought election together as NDA. The National Democratic Alliance won the most seats and Naveen Patnaik was re-appointed as the Chief Minister of Orissa.The opposition Congress was headed by former CM Janaki Ballabh Pattnaik, who was unsuccessful.[1][2] The number of constituencies was set as 147 by the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.[3]

Quick facts All 147 seats in the Orissa Legislative Assembly 74 seats needed for a majority, Registered ...
Remove ads

Parties and alliances

  National Democratic Alliance

More information Party, Flag ...

  United Progressive Alliance

More information Party, Flag ...
Remove ads

Result

More information Party, Popular vote ...
Remove ads

Elected Members

More information District, AC. No. ...
Remove ads

Govt Formation

BJD & BJP fought togetherly as NDA. BJD won 61 seats, BJP won 32 seats. NDA seats = BJD + BJP = 61 + 32 = 93. (93>74 -- magic number). NDA formed govt again. CM Naveen Pattanaik appointed several MLAs from both BJP & BJD as ministers.

The opposed alliance was UPA, which consisted of Congress, OGP, Communist. (UPA = 38+2+2 = 42)

See also

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads