# 2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election

The 2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election took place in April 2009, concurrently with the general election. The elections were held in the state in two phases. The results were declared on 16 May. Despite having recently separated from the Bharatiya Janata Party after an eleven-year partnership, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) retained power in the Odisha State Assembly with a more convincing majority. Party chief Naveen Patnaik was formally re-elected as the BJD Legislature party leader on 19 May, thus paving the way for his third consecutive term as the Chief Minister of Odisha.

## Previous Assembly

In the 2004 Orissa Assembly election, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had swept the state with the BJD winning 61 seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning 32 seats, giving the alliance comfortable majority in the 147-member house. This was the second consecutive term for the BJD-BJP combine after they first formed the government in 2000. The Naveen Patnaik government had been sworn in at the Bhubaneswar Raj Bhavan by Odisha Governor M. M. Rajendran in May 2004.

## Background

With the tenure of the Orissa Assembly scheduled to expire on 29 June 2009, the Election Commission of India announced on 2 March that year that the elections to the Assembly would be held alongside the general election. The election in each Assembly constituency (AC) was held in the same phase as the election to the corresponding Parliamentary constituency that the AC fell under.
Seat-sharing discussions got underway between allies, after eleven years of partnership and nearly two full terms as the Orissa state government, the BJD snapped ties with the BJP in March 2009, blaming the latter for the 2008 violence against Christians. Thereafter, the BJP withdrew support to Government and Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare asked Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to prove his majority in the Orissa Assembly. Naveen Patnaik then won a controversial trust vote on 11 March 2009, after the opposition Congress and BJP legislators walked out of the Assembly in protest in the manner the vote was being conducted.
The BJD then declared that they support neither Congress nor BJP. Though they decided to contest the 2009 elections in partnership with the Left Front and Nationalist Congress Party, the BJD did not officially join the Third Front.

### Schedule of election

| Poll Event | Phase 1 | Phase 2 |
| Announcement & Issue of Press Note | Monday, 02 Mar 2009 | Monday, 02 Mar 2009 |
| Issue of Notification | Monday, 23 Mar 2009 | Saturday, 28 Mar 2009 |
| Last Date for filing Nominations | Monday, 30 Mar 2009 | Saturday, 04 Apr 2009 |
| Scrutiny of Nominations | Tuesday, 31 Mar 2009 | Monday, 06 Apr 2009 |
| Last date for withdrawal of Candidature | Thursday, 02 Apr 2009 | Wednesday, 08 Apr 2009 |
| Date of Poll | Thursday, 16 Apr 2009 | Thursday, 23 Apr 2009 |
| Counting of Votes on | Saturday, 16 May 2009 | Saturday, 16 May 2009 |
| Date of election being completed | Thursday, 28 May 2009 | Thursday, 28 May 2009 |
| Constituencies Polling on this day | 70 | 77 |
| Source: Election Commission of India |||

## Results
### Government formation

Despite fighting against both BJP & Congress, the BJD emerged victorious with more than two-thirds majority in the 147 member Legislative Assembly. Naveen Patnaik was sworn in for his third consecutive term by Governor M.C. Bhandare on 2009-05-21 at the Bhubaneswar Raj Bhavan.

### Number of seats

Source: Election Commission of India :
| Party | Seats won | Seats change | Popular vote | Vote share | Swing |
| Biju Janata Dal | 103 | +42 | 6,903,641 | 38.86% | +11.50% |
| Indian National Congress | 27 | -11 | 5,169,559 | 29.10% | -5.72% |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 6 | -26 | 2,674,067 | 15.05% | -2.06% |
| Independent | 6 | -2 | 1,536,745 | 8.65% | -3.55% |
| Nationalist Congress Party | 4 | +4 | 237,528 | 1.34% | +1.34% |
| Communist Party of India | 1 | +0 | 89,852 | 0.51% | -0.26% |

### Number of candidates

| Party Type | Code | Party Name | Number of candidates | Total |
| National Parties | BJP | Bharatiya Janata Party | 145 | 423 |
| National Parties | BSP | Bahujan Samaj Party | 114 | 423 |
| National Parties | CPI | Communist Party of India | 5 | 423 |
| National Parties | CPM | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 4 | 423 |
| National Parties | INC | Indian National Congress | 147 | 423 |
| National Parties | NCP | Nationalist Congress Party | 8 | 423 |
| State Parties | BJD | Biju Janata Dal | 129 | 161 |
| State Parties | JMM | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 32 | 161 |
| State Parties - Other States | AITC | All India Trinamool Congress | 5 | 86 |
| State Parties - Other States | JD(U) | Janata Dal (United) | 10 | 86 |
| State Parties - Other States | LJP | Lok Jan Shakti Party | 8 | 86 |
| State Parties - Other States | RSP | Revolutionary Socialist Party | 18 | 86 |
| State Parties - Other States | SP | Samajwadi Party | 45 | 86 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | AJSU | All Jharkhand Students Union | 4 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | BJSH | Bharatiya Jan Shakti | 3 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | BOP | Bira Oriya Party | 1 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | CPI(ML)(L) | Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation | 17 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | IJP | Indian Justice Party | 5 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | JDP | Jharkhand Disom Party | 6 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | JHKP | Jana Hitkari Party | 7 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | JKP | Jharkhand Party | 1 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | KOKD | Kosal Kranti Dal | 18 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | KS | Kalinga Sena | 36 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | LSP | Lok Satta Party | 1 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | OCP | Orissa Communist Party | 2 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | OMM | Orissa Mukti Morcha | 8 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | RPD | Rashtriya Parivartan Dal | 16 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | RPI | Republican Party of India | 5 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | RPI(A) | Republican Party of India (Athavale) | 13 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | RWS | Rashtrawadi Sena | 4 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | SAMO | Samurdha Odisha | 99 | 247 |
| Unrecognised or Unregistered Parties | SWJP | Samajwadi Jan Parishad | 1 | 247 |
| Independents | n/a | Independents | 371 | 371 |
| Total: | Total: | Total: | Total: | 1288 |
| Source: Election Commission of India |||||

## Elected members

| S.No | Constituency | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) | Member | Party |
| 1 | Padampur | None | Bijaya Ranjan Singh Bariha | Biju Janata Dal |
| 2 | Bijepur | None | Subal Sahu | Indian National Congress |
| 3 | Bargarh | None | Sadhu Nepak | Indian National Congress |
| 4 | Attabira | SC | Nihar Ranjan Mahananda | Indian National Congress |
| 5 | Bhatli | None | Susanta Singh | Biju Janata Dal |
| 6 | Brajarajnagar | None | Anup Kumar Sai | Indian National Congress |
| 7 | Jharsuguda | None | Naba Kishore Das | Indian National Congress |
| 8 | Talsara | ST | Dr. Prafulla Majhi | Indian National Congress |
| 9 | Sundargarh | ST | Jogesh Kumar Singh | Indian National Congress |
| 10 | Biramitrapur | ST | George Tirkey | Independent |
| 11 | Raghunathpali | SC | Subrat Tarai | Biju Janata Dal |
| 12 | Rourkela | None | Sarada Prasad Nayak | Biju Janata Dal |
| 13 | Rajgangapur | ST | Gregory Minz | Indian National Congress |
| 14 | Bonai | ST | Bhimsen Choudhury | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 15 | Kuchinda | ST | Rajendra Kumar Chhatria | Indian National Congress |
| 16 | Rengali | SC | Duryodhan Gardia | Indian National Congress |
| 17 | Sambalpur | None | Jayanarayan Mishra | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 18 | Rairakhol | None | Prasanna Acharya | Biju Janata Dal |
| 19 | Deogarh | None | Sanjeeb Kumar Pradhan | Biju Janata Dal |
| 20 | Telkoi | ST | Premananda Nayak | Biju Janata Dal |
| 21 | Ghasipura | None | Badrinarayan Patra | Biju Janata Dal |
| 22 | Anandapur | SC | Bhagirathi Sethy | Biju Janata Dal |
| 23 | Patna | ST | Hrusikesh Naik | Biju Janata Dal |
| 24 | Keonjhar | ST | Subarna Naik | Biju Janata Dal |
| 25 | Champua | None | Jitu Patnaik | Independent |
| 26 | Jashipur | ST | Kamala Kanta Nayak | Biju Janata Dal |
| 27 | Saraskana | ST | Rama Chandra Hansdah | Nationalist Congress Party |
| 28 | Rairangpur | ST | Shyam Charan Hansdah | Indian National Congress |
| 29 | Bangriposi | ST | Sarojini Hembram | Biju Janata Dal |
| 30 | Karanjia | ST | Bijay Kumar Naik | Biju Janata Dal |
| 31 | Udala | ST | Shrinath Soren | Biju Janata Dal |
| 32 | Badasahi | SC | Manoranjan Sethi | Biju Janata Dal |
| 33 | Baripada | ST | Sananda Marandi | Biju Janata Dal |
| 34 | Morada | None | Praveen Chandra Bhanjdeo | Biju Janata Dal |
| 35 | Jaleswar | None | Debi Prasanna Chand | Indian National Congress |
| 36 | Bhograi | None | Ananta Das | Biju Janata Dal |
| 37 | Basta | None | Raghunath Mohanty | Biju Janata Dal |
| 38 | Balasore | None | Jiban Pradip Dash | Biju Janata Dal |
| 39 | Remuna | SC | Sudarshan Jena | Biju Janata Dal |
| 40 | Nilgiri | None | Pratap Chandra Sarangi | Independent |
| 41 | Soro | SC | Surendra Prasad Pramanik | Indian National Congress |
| 42 | Simulia | None | Parsuram Panigrahi | Biju Janata Dal |
| 43 | Bhandaripokhari | None | Prafulla Samal | Biju Janata Dal |
| 44 | Bhadrak | None | Jugal Kishore Pattnaik | Biju Janata Dal |
| 45 | Basudevpur | None | Bijayshree Routray | Biju Janata Dal |
| 46 | Dhamnagar | SC | Rajendra Kumar Das | Biju Janata Dal |
| 47 | Chandabali | None | Bijaya Nayak | Biju Janata Dal |
| 48 | Binjharpur | SC | Pramila Mallik | Biju Janata Dal |
| 49 | Bari | None | Debasis Nayak | Biju Janata Dal |
| 50 | Barchana | None | Amar Prasad Satpathy | Nationalist Congress Party |
| 51 | Dharmasala | None | Kalpataru Das | Biju Janata Dal |
| 52 | Jajpur | None | Pranab Prakash Das | Biju Janata Dal |
| 53 | Korei | None | Pritiranjan Gharai | Biju Janata Dal |
| 54 | Sukinda | None | Prafulla Chandra Ghadai | Biju Janata Dal |
| 55 | Dhenkanal | None | Nabin Nanda | Nationalist Congress Party |
| 56 | Hindol | SC | Anjali Behera | Biju Janata Dal |
| 57 | Kamakhyanagar | None | Prafulla Kumar Mallik | Biju Janata Dal |
| 58 | Parjanga | None | Dr. Nrusingha Sahu | Biju Janata Dal |
| 59 | Pallahara | None | Rabi Narayan Pani | Biju Janata Dal |
| 60 | Talcher | None | Braja Kishore Pradhan | Independent |
| 61 | Angul | None | Rajani Kant Singh | Biju Janata Dal |
| 62 | Chhendipada | SC | Khageswar Behera | Biju Janata Dal |
| 63 | Athamallik | None | Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo | Biju Janata Dal |
| 64 | Birmaharajpur | SC | Padmanabh Behera | Biju Janata Dal |
| 65 | Sonepur | None | Niranjan Pujari | Biju Janata Dal |
| 66 | Loisingha | SC | Ramakanta Seth | Biju Janata Dal |
| 67 | Patnagarh | None | Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 68 | Bolangir | None | Anang Uday Singh Deo | Biju Janata Dal |
| 69 | Titlagarh | None | Surendra Singh Bhoi | Indian National Congress |
| 70 | Kantabanji | None | Santosh Singh Saluja | Indian National Congress |
| 71 | Nuapada | None | Rajendra Dholakia | Biju Janata Dal |
| 72 | Khariar | None | Hitesh Kumar Bagartti | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 73 | Umarkote | ST | Jagabandhu Majhi | Biju Janata Dal |
| 74 | Jharigam | ST | Ramesh Chandra Majhi | Biju Janata Dal |
| 75 | Nabarangpur | ST | Manohar Randhari | Biju Janata Dal |
| 76 | Dabugam | ST | Bhujabal Majhi | Indian National Congress |
| 77 | Lanjigarh | ST | Shibaji Majhi | Indian National Congress |
| 78 | Junagarh | None | Gobardhan Dash | Indian National Congress |
| 79 | Dharmgarh | None | Puspendra Singh Deo | Biju Janata Dal |
| 80 | Bhawanipatna | SC | Dusmanta Naik | Indian National Congress |
| 81 | Narla | None | Bhupinder Singh | Indian National Congress |
| 82 | Baliguda | ST | Karendra Majhi | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 83 | G. Udayagiri | ST | Manoj Kumar Pradhan | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 84 | Phulbani | ST | Debendra Kanhar | Biju Janata Dal |
| 85 | Kantamal | None | Bhagban Kanhor | Biju Janata Dal |
| 86 | Boudh | None | Pradip Kumar Amat | Biju Janata Dal |
| 87 | Baramba | None | Debiprasad Mishra | Biju Janata Dal |
| 88 | Banki | None | Pravata Kumar Tripathy | Biju Janata Dal |
| 89 | Athagarh | None | Ramesh Rout | Independent |
| 90 | Barabati-cuttack | None | Debashish Samantaray | Biju Janata Dal |
| 91 | Choudwar-cuttack | None | Pravat Ranjan Biswal | Biju Janata Dal |
| 92 | Niali | SC | Pramod Kumar Mallick | Biju Janata Dal |
| 93 | Cuttack Sadar | SC | Kalindi Behera | Biju Janata Dal |
| 94 | Salipur | None | Chandra Sarathi Behera | Biju Janata Dal |
| 95 | Mahanga | None | Pratap Jena | Biju Janata Dal |
| 96 | Patkura | None | Bed Prakash Agrawalla | Biju Janata Dal |
| 97 | Kendrapara | SC | Sipra Mallick | Biju Janata Dal |
| 98 | Aul | None | Pratap Keshari Deb | Biju Janata Dal |
| 99 | Rajanagar | None | Alekh Kumar Jena | Biju Janata Dal |
| 100 | Mahakalapada | None | Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak | Biju Janata Dal |
| 101 | Paradeep | None | Damodara Rout | Biju Janata Dal |
| 102 | Tirtol | SC | Rabindra Nath Bhoi | Biju Janata Dal |
| 103 | Balikuda-ersama | None | Prasanta Kumar Muduli | Biju Janata Dal |
| 104 | Jagatsinghpur | None | Bishnu Charan Das | Biju Janata Dal |
| 105 | Kakatpur | SC | Rabi Mallick | Biju Janata Dal |
| 106 | Nimapara | None | Samir Ranjan Dash | Biju Janata Dal |
| 107 | Puri | None | Maheswar Mohanty | Biju Janata Dal |
| 108 | Bramhagiri | None | Sanjay Kumar Das Burma | Biju Janata Dal |
| 109 | Satyabadi | None | Prasad Kumar Harichandan | Indian National Congress |
| 110 | Pipili | None | Pradeep Maharathy | Biju Janata Dal |
| 111 | Jayadev | SC | Arabinda Dhali | Biju Janata Dal |
| 112 | Bhubaneswar Central | None | (madhya) Bijaya Kumar Mohanty | Biju Janata Dal |
| 113 | Bhubaneswar North | None | (uttar) Bhagirathi Badajena | Biju Janata Dal |
| 114 | Ekamra-bhubaneswar | None | Ashok Chandra Panda | Biju Janata Dal |
| 115 | Jatani | None | Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray | Biju Janata Dal |
| 116 | Begunia | None | Prashanta Nanda | Nationalist Congress Party |
| 117 | Khurda | None | Rajendra Ku. Sahoo | Independent |
| 118 | Chilika | None | Raghunath Sahu | Biju Janata Dal |
| 119 | Ranpur | None | Satyanarayan Pradhan | Biju Janata Dal |
| 120 | Khandapada | None | Siddharth Sekhar Singh | Biju Janata Dal |
| 121 | Daspalla | SC | Kashinath Mallik | Biju Janata Dal |
| 122 | Nayagarh | None | Arun Kumar Sahoo | Biju Janata Dal |
| 123 | Bhanjanagar | None | Bikram Keshari Arukha | Biju Janata Dal |
| 124 | Polasara | None | Niranjan Pradhan | Biju Janata Dal |
| 125 | Kabisuryangar | None | V. Sugnana Kumari Deo | Biju Janata Dal |
| 126 | Khalikote | SC | Purna Chandra Sethy | Biju Janata Dal |
| 127 | Chhatrapur | SC | Adikanda Sethi | Communist Party of India |
| 128 | Aska | None | Debaraj Mohanty | Biju Janata Dal |
| 129 | Surada | None | Purna Chandra Swain | Biju Janata Dal |
| 130 | Sanakhemundi | None | Ramesh Chandra Jena | Indian National Congress |
| 131 | Hinjili | None | Naveen Patnaik | Biju Janata Dal |
| 132 | Gopalpur | None | Dr.pradeep Kumar Panigrahy | Biju Janata Dal |
| 133 | Berhampur | None | Dr.ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik | Biju Janata Dal |
| 134 | Digapahandi | None | Surya Narayana Patro | Biju Janata Dal |
| 135 | Chikiti | None | Usha Devi | Biju Janata Dal |
| 136 | Mohana | ST | Chakradhara Paik | Indian National Congress |
| 137 | Paralakhemundi | None | K.narayana Rao | Biju Janata Dal |
| 138 | Gunupur | ST | Ramamurty Mutika | Biju Janata Dal |
| 139 | Bissam Cuttack | ST | Damburudhara Ulaka | Indian National Congress |
| 140 | Rayagada | ST | Lal Bihari Himirika | Biju Janata Dal |
| 141 | Laxmipur | ST | Jhina Hikaka | Biju Janata Dal |
| 142 | Kotpad | ST | Basudev Majhi | Indian National Congress |
| 143 | Jeypore | None | Rabi Narayan Nanda | Biju Janata Dal |
| 144 | Koraput | SC | Raghuram Padal | Biju Janata Dal |
| 145 | Pottangi | ST | Rama Chandra Kadam | Indian National Congress |
| 146 | Malkangiri | ST | Mukunda Sodi | Biju Janata Dal |
| 147 | Chitrakonda | ST | Mamta Madhi | Indian National Congress |