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 51–100 of 147

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
DABUGAM	INCBHUJABAL MAJHI	BJDBHAGABAN MAJHI	5,1155.36%	57.6%
DASPALLA	INCHARIHAR KARAN	INDRUDRAMADHAB RAY	3,9984.74%	59.2%
DEOGARH	BJPSUBASH CHANDRA PANIGRAHI	INDNITESH GANGA DEB	8,7849.45%	56.1%
DHAMNAGAR	INDMANAS RANJAN MALLIK	BJPMANMOHAN SAMAL	1,7031.55%	66.2%
DHARAMGARH	BJDBIRA SIPKA	INDBHISMA SUNANI	11,08916.08%	44.9%
DHARAMSALA	BJDKALPATARU DAS	INCKANGALI CHARAN PANDA	5,6835.34%	67.9%
DHENKANAL	BJPKRUSHNA CHANDRA PATRA	INDSUDHIR KUMAR SAMAL	4,0484.70%	55.0%
ERSAMA	BJDDAMODAR ROUT	INCBIJAY KUMAR NAYAK	46,55335.08%	64.0%
GOBINDPUR	BJDPANCHANAN KANUNGO	INCRABINDRA KUMAR MALLICK	1,2351.09%	67.5%
GONDIA	BJDNABIN NANDA	INCSIDHESWARI PRASAD MISHRA	21,69825.07%	56.6%
GOPALPUR	BJDRAMA CHANDRA SETHY	INCTRINATH BEHERA	2,1072.45%	57.2%
GUNUPUR	BJPRAMURTY GAMANGO	INCBHAGIRATHI GOMANGO	29,79136.17%	50.3%
HINDOL	BJDANJALI BEHERA	INCMAHESWAR NAIK	27,14938.55%	47.0%
HINJILI	BJDNAVEEN PATNAIK	INCUDAYANATH NAYAK	26,41730.69%	52.5%
JAGANATHPRASAD	INCSIMANCHALA BEHERA	BJDMADHABA NANDO BEHERA	1,7522.03%	51.8%
JAGATSINGHPUR	BJDBISHNU CHARAN DAS	INCARAKHITA BHOI	34,57233.27%	61.8%
JAJPUR	BJDSURYAMANI JENA	INCAMIYA KANTA MALLICK	17,47518.40%	54.1%
JALESWAR	INCJAYANARAYAN MOHANTY	BJPASWINI PATRA	6090.42%	69.8%
JASHIPUR	BJPBHANU CHARAN NAIK	INDSHAMBHU NATH NAIK	6,4528.78%	60.0%
JATNI	INCSURESH KUMAR ROUTRAY	BJDSARAT PAIKRAY	4,0773.97%	63.2%
JEYPORE	BJDRABI NARAYAN NANDA	INDRAGHUNATH PATNAIK	36,16437.37%	56.4%
JHARSUGUDA	BJDKISHORE KUMAR MOHANTY	INCBIRENDRA CHANDRA PANDEY	43,19345.06%	57.8%
JUNAGARH	BJPHIMANSHU SHEKHAR MEHER	INCBHUPINDER SINGH	7,79010.31%	51.3%
KAKATPUR	BJDSURENDRA NATH NAIK	INCSATYABRATA PATRA	24,84521.17%	65.4%
KAMAKHYANAGAR	BJDBRAHMANANDA BISWAL	CPISIBARAMA SAHOO	27,59032.14%	50.8%
KANTABANJI	INCSANTOSH SINGH SALUJA	INDHAZI MOHAMMED AYUB KHAN	1,6172.07%	56.0%
KARANJIA	INDPADMA CHARAN HAIBURU	BJDRAGHUNATH HEMBRAM	15,64820.87%	59.1%
KAVISURYANAGAR	CPINITYANANDA PRADHAN	BJDLADU KISHORE SWAIN	1,9012.11%	50.5%
KENDRAPARA	BJPBED PRAKASH AGARWALLA	INCBHAGABAT PRASAD MOHANTY	19,07518.82%	67.0%
KEONJHAR	BJPMOHAN CHARAN MAJHI	INCJAGADISH NAIK	22,16325.45%	52.3%
KESINGA	BJPDHANESWAR MAJHI	INCJAGANATH PATTANAIK	8,1809.37%	58.4%
KHALLIKOTE	BJDV.SUGNANA KUMARI DEO	INCTRINATH SAMANTARA	33,57134.23%	57.6%
KHANDAPARA	BJDBIJAYALAXMI PATTNAIK	INCBIBHUTI BHUSAN SINGH MARDARAJ	37,66046.06%	57.6%
KHARIAR	BJDDURJYODHAN MAJHI	INCRAJSHREE DEBI	20,47723.88%	56.5%
KHUNTA	BJPGOLAK NAIK	JMMPRAKASH CHANDRA SOREN	3,6494.05%	63.5%
KHURDA	INDJYOTIRINDRA NATH MITRA	BJDMINATI HARICHANDAN	5,4265.35%	57.3%
KISSANNAGAR	BJDPRATAP JENA	INCBIRA KISHORE PARIDA	17,69518.94%	60.9%
KODALA	BJDRAMA KRUSHNA PATNAIK	INCUDAYANATH PRADHAN	51,47751.19%	56.6%
KODINGA	INCSADAN NAYAK	BJPDOMBURU MAJHI	22,73125.00%	69.8%
KOKSARA	BJDROSHNI SINGH DEO	INCSUNIL CHANDRA NAYAK	8,59511.77%	50.3%
KORAI	JD(S)ASHOK KUMAR DAS	BJPSANCHITA MOHANTY	10,89110.59%	58.9%
KORAPUT	INCTARA PRASAD BAHINIPATI	BJDISWAR CHANDRA PANIGRAHI	14,67017.94%	51.1%
KOTPAD	INCBASUDEV MAJHI	BJPSADAN NAIK	22,98224.88%	60.4%
KUCHINDA	BJPRABINARAYAN NAIK	INCPANU CHANDRA NAYAK	14,08620.35%	49.1%
KULIANA	JMMSUDAM MARNDI	BJPSANANDA MARNDI	22,20223.36%	66.6%
LAIKERA	INCHEMANAND BISWAL	BJPBRUNDABAN MAJHI	21,58223.93%	62.9%
LAKSHMIPUR	BJDBIBHISANA MAJHI	INCGAURA CHANDRA MUDULI	12,55219.55%	44.9%
LOISINGHA	BJPBAL GOPAL MISHRA	JD(U)NARASINGHA MISHRA	25,30027.57%	62.9%
MAHANGA	BJDSARAT KUMAR KAR	INCSK. MATLUB ALI	3,4463.58%	67.3%
MALKANGIRI	BJPARABINDA DHALI	INCNIMAI CHANDRA SARKAR	7,4468.17%	52.8%

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.