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2004 Odisha Legislative Assembly election
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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 ...
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Registered | 25,651,989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parties and alliances
National Democratic Alliance
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Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Biju Janata Dal | ![]() |
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Naveen Patnaik | 84 | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | ![]() |
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Jual Oram | 63 |
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United Progressive Alliance
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Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Indian National Congress | ![]() |
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Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | 133 | |
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | ![]() |
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Shibu Soren | 12 | |
Odisha Gana Parishad | ![]() |
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Bijoy Mohapatra | 4 |
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Result
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Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
Color | Flag | Name | Symbol | Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− |
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Indian National Congress | ![]() |
5,896,713 | 34.82 | ![]() |
133 | 38 | ![]() | |
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Biju Janata Dal | ![]() |
4,632,280 | 27.36 | ![]() |
84 | 61 | ![]() | |
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Bharatiya Janata Party | ![]() |
2,898,105 | 17.11 | ![]() |
63 | 32 | ![]() | |
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Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | ![]() |
301,777 | 1.78 | ![]() |
12 | 4 | ![]() | |
- | Odisha Gana Parishad | - | 217,998 | 1.20 | (new) | 4 | 2 | (new) | |
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Communist Party of India | ![]() |
129,989 | 0.77 | ![]() |
6 | 1 | ![]() | |
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) | ![]() |
93,159 | 0.55 | ![]() |
3 | 1 | ![]() | |
- | Independents | - | 2,065,650 | 12.20 | ![]() |
295 | 8 | ![]() | |
Total | - | 100 | - | - | 147 | - | |||
Valid Votes | 16,933,456 | 66.01 | |||||||
Invalid Votes | 9,461 | - | |||||||
Total Votes polled / turnout | 16,942,917 | 66.05 | |||||||
Abstentation | 8,709,072 | - | |||||||
Total No. of Electors | 25,651,989 |
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Elected Members
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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)
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