Odisha assembly election, Feb 2000

147 assembly constituencies in Odisha, 58.39% turnout.

Seats

147

Candidates

868

59 women, 13 elected

Turnout

58.39%

1.41 cr of 2.42 cr

Leading party

BJD

68 of 147 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in Odisha

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
BJD Biju Janata Dal	68	+68	84	41,51,895	29.40%	—
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	38	+29	63	25,70,074	18.20%	+10.32
INC Indian National Congress	26	-54	145	47,70,654	33.78%	-5.30
IND Independent	8	+2	236	15,06,216	10.66%	+0.16
JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	3	-1	21	3,01,729	2.14%	+0.19
CPI Communist Party of India	1	0	29	1,72,398	1.22%	-0.49
JD(S)JD(S)	1	+1	24	1,18,978	0.84%	—
AITC All India Trinamool Congress	1	+1	36	1,10,056	0.78%	—
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1	+1	15	1,09,256	0.77%	+0.11
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0	105	1,62,184	1.15%	+0.65
JD(U)JD(U)	0	0	8	48,135	0.34%	—
NCP Nationalist Congress Party	0	0	31	34,986	0.25%	—
SP Samajwadi Party	0	0	14	20,480	0.14%	—
SHS Shiv Sena	0	0	16	18,794	0.13%	—
BBM BBM	0	0	8	6,815	0.05%	—
CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L)	0	0	6	4,198	0.03%	-0.02
SAP SAP	0	0	4	3,732	0.03%	-0.30
SJPR SJPR	0	0	4	3,051	0.02%	-1.34
SWJP SWJP	0	0	1	2,412	0.02%	—
RJD Rashtriya Janata Dal	0	0	4	2,078	0.01%	—
BOP BOP	0	0	3	1,520	0.01%	—
PSSS PSSS	0	0	3	1,341	0.01%	-0.05
JKP JKP	0	0	4	1,209	0.01%	-0.03
FBL All India Forward Bloc	0	0	1	795	0.01%	0.00
OCP OCP	0	0	1	630	0.00%	-0.16
AJBP AJBP	0	0	1	559	0.00%	—
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	0	0	1	294	0.00%	—

BJD68 (46%)
BJP38 (26%)
INC26 (18%)
IND8 (5%)
JMM3 (2%)
CPI1 (1%)
Others3 (2%)

BJD68
BJP38
INC26
IND8
JMM3
CPI1
Others3

BJD68
BJP38
INC26
IND8
JMM3
CPI1
JD(S)1
AITC1
Others1

Constituency performance

From the 147 results in Odisha

Closest contest

JALESWAR

won by 609 (0.42%)

Biggest victory

BARAMBA

won by 67,599 (69.50%)

Highest turnout

RAJNAGAR

74.27%

Lowest turnout

ROURKELA

40.66%

Seat change

Against Odisha's previous Vidhan Sabha election (1995), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained29 (20%)
Changed hands118 (80%)

29 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 118 changed hands.

India’s constituencies have not been redrawn since the 2008 delimitation, so this compares the same seat boundary both times.

Vote share & turnout trend

Odisha, every Vidhan Sabha election on record

VOTE SHARE

TURNOUT

Assembly seat results

All 147 seats, alphabetical · showing 1–50 of 147

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
ANANDAPUR	BJPSRI MAYADHAR JENA	INCSRI JAYADEV JENA	4,7944.30%	69.1%
ANGUL	BJDADWAIT PRASAD SINGH	INCRAMESH JENA	45,20641.09%	55.3%
ASKA	BJDDEBARAJ MOHANTY	INCUMA CHARAN BISOYI	12,81417.10%	49.7%
ATHGARH	BJDRANENDRA PRATAP SWAIN	INCJANAKI BALLAV PATNAIK	40,42533.11%	73.8%
ATHMALLIK	BJDNAGENDRA KUMAR PRADHAN	INCAMARNATH PRADHAN	24,62925.01%	67.3%
AUL	BJDPRATAP KESHARI DEB	INCDOLAGOVINDA NAYAK	25,32524.30%	60.6%
BAHALDA	BJPLAXMAN SOREN	INCSAIBA SUSHIL KUMAR HANSDAH	2,0602.87%	58.4%
BAISINGA	BJPKANDRA SOREN	INCKUANRIA MAJHI	8,93810.15%	62.3%
BALASORE	BJPJIBAN PRADIP DASH	INDARUN DEY	13,63810.49%	59.7%
BALIKUDA	INCUMESH CHANDRA SWAIN	BJDRAGHUNANDAN DAS	1,6191.52%	63.9%
BALIPATNA	BJDRAGHAB CHANDRA SETHI	INCBENUDHAR BHOI	10,92712.12%	64.4%
BALLIGUDA	BJPSURENDRA KANHAR	INCSAHURA MALLIK	1,0071.14%	55.1%
BANGRIPOSI	INDPURUSOTTAM NAIK	JMMAJEN MURMU	2,0252.40%	62.3%
BANKI	BJDPRAVAT TRIPATHY	INCDEBASIS PATNAIK	19,69119.87%	64.3%
BARAMBA	BJDDEBI MISHRA	INCLAXMI DEVI	67,59969.50%	60.1%
BARCHANA	BJDAMAR PRASAD SATPATHY	INCSITAKANTA MOHAPATRA	4,7553.83%	70.7%
BARGARH	BJDANANDA ACHARYA	INCNABIN KUMAR PADHAN	35,04633.72%	52.4%
BARI-DERABISI	BJDDEBASIS NAYAK	INCKULAMANI ROUT	15,03815.79%	61.3%
BARIPADA	JMMKISHORE DASH	BJPBIMAL LOCHAN DAS	10,3549.09%	65.2%
BASTA	BJDRAGHUNATH MOHANTY	INCDEBIPRASANNA CHAND	17,58015.29%	69.3%
BASUDEVPUR	BJDBIJAYSHREE ROUTRAY	INCMEENAKSHEE NAYAK	13,14912.02%	63.2%
BEGUNIA	BJPPRASHANTA NANDA	INCKAILASH CHANDRA MOHAPATRA	2,1542.00%	59.6%
BERHAMPUR	BJDDR. RAMESH CHANDRA CHYAU PATNAIK	INDCHANDRA SEKHAR SAHU (GOSANINUAGAM)	19,86119.60%	45.7%
BHADRAK	INCBIREN PALEI	BJDPRAFULLA SAMAL	5320.48%	63.2%
BHANDARIPOKHARI	BJDRATHA DAS	INCKUMAR SREE CHIRANJIBI	19,65219.23%	66.9%
BHANJANAGAR	BJDBIKRAM KESHARI ARUKHA	INCB. DANDPANI PATRO	8,5079.37%	58.1%
BHATLI	BJPBIMBADHAR KUANR	INCMOHAN NAG	29,61730.38%	64.6%
BHAWANIPATNA	BJPPRADIPTA KUMAR NAIK	INCDUSMANTA NAIK	15,06020.00%	44.4%
BHOGRAI	BJDDR. KAMALA DAS	INCKARTIKESWAR PATRA	1,0550.87%	64.5%
BHUBANESWAR	BJPBISWABHUSAN HARICHANDAN	INCDR. JAGANNATH MOHAPATRA	94,55563.73%	41.4%
BIJEPUR	BJDASHOK KUMAR PANIGRAHY	INCRIPU NATH SETH	13,09612.34%	64.9%
BINJHARPUR	BJDPRAMILA MALLIK	INCANADI CHARAN DAS	23,50426.61%	55.0%
BINKA	BJDNIRANJAN PUJARI	INDNABAKRUSHNA DANTA	10,50010.62%	57.4%
BIRAMITRAPUR	JMMGEORGE TIRKEY	BJPSUKDEV PRADHAN	12,88416.53%	57.3%
BIRMAHARAJPUR	BJDBAISHNABA PADHAN	INDSANJEEB KUMAR SAHOO	7,0427.86%	61.6%
BISSAM-CUTTACK	BJDSARANGADHAR KADRAKA	INCDAMBARUDHAR ULAKA	3,4264.08%	56.4%
BOLANGIR	BJDANANG UDAYA SINGH DEO	INCMOHAMMED MUZAFAR HUSSAIN KHAN	13,69214.82%	52.3%
BONAI	BJPDAYANIDHI KISAN	INCJANARDAN DEHURY	12,90717.25%	55.9%
BOUDH	INDPRADIP KUMAR AMAT	INCSUJIT KUMAR PADHI	8750.95%	61.0%
BRAHMAGIRI	INCLALATENDU BIDYADHAR MOHAPATRA	BJDAJAYA JENA	23,54220.38%	68.3%
BRAJARAJNAGAR	INCANUP KUMAR SAI	BJPSURESH PUJARI	10,02211.37%	51.5%
CHAMPUA	INDSAHARAI ORAM	INCMADHABA SARDAR	5,2366.31%	51.6%
CHANDBALI	BJPBISHNU CHARAN SETHI	INCNETRANANDA MALLICK	8,5977.44%	64.4%
CHATRAPUR	BJPRAMA CHANDRA PANDA	INDNAGIREDLLA NARAYAN	5,6565.55%	58.8%
CHIKATI	BJDUSHA DEVI	INCCHINTAMANI DYAN SAMANTARA	12,60512.44%	63.0%
CHILKA	BJPDR. BIBHUTI BHUSAN HARICHANDAN	INCDEBENDRANATH MANSINGH	19,01816.40%	63.0%
CHITRAKONDA	INCMAMTA MADHI	INDPRAHLAD DORA	18,12527.79%	43.6%
CHOUDWAR	INDBIDHUBHUSAN PRAHARAJ	BJDRAJKISHORE RAM	7970.90%	58.0%
CUTTACK CITY	BJPSAMIR DEY	INCSYED MUSTAFIZ AHMED	33,77533.06%	43.0%
CUTTACK SADAR	BJPNIBEDITA PRADHAN	INDPRAVAT RANJAN BISWAL	2,1621.87%	56.9%

Vote share and swing on this page are the party’s share of valid votes in Odisha alone — a different number from its national or all-state figures, and never mixed with them.

Frequently asked

Straight answers to the questions this result page exists to answer.

Who won the Odisha assembly election, Feb 2000?

Biju Janata Dal won 68 of 147 seats in Odisha, short of a majority on its own.

What was the voter turnout in the Odisha assembly election, Feb 2000?

Turnout was 58.39% — 1.41 cr of 2.42 cr registered electors voted.

How many assembly seats does Odisha have?

Odisha has 147 assembly seats.