1974 Odisha Legislative Assembly election
Appearance
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Elections to the sixth Odisha Legislative Assembly were held 1974.[1][2][3]
Constituencies
[edit]The elections were held for 147 seats. A total of 722 candidates contested for these 147 seats.
Political parties
[edit]Three national parties, Communist Party of India, Indian National Congress and Swatantra Party along with the state party Utkal Congress took part in the assembly election. Congress party emerged again as the winner by winning 50% of the seats with a vote share of 37.44%. Nandini Satpathy again become the Chief Minister of the state.[4]
Results
[edit]Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected | No. of votes | % | |||||
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Indian National Congress (Indira) | 135 | 69 | 2152818 | 37.44% | |||||
Utkal Congress | 95 | 35 | 1521064 | 26.45% | |||||
Swatantra Party | 56 | 21 | 694473 | 12.08% | |||||
Communist Party of India | 14 | 7 | 279738 | 4.87% | |||||
Socialist Party | 17 | 2 | 101789 | 1.77% | |||||
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 8 | 3 | 67600 | 1.18% | |||||
Orissa Jana Congress | 42 | 1 | 67169 | 1.17% | |||||
Jharkhand Party | 12 | 1 | 34786 | 0.60% | |||||
Indian National Congress (Organization) | 17 | 0 | 29103 | 0.51% | |||||
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 12 | 0 | 23335 | 0.41% | |||||
All India Jharkhand Party | 8 | 0 | 15360 | 0.27% | |||||
Socialist Unity Centre of India | 4 | 0 | 10214 | 0,18% | |||||
All India Forward Bloc | 2 | 0 | 1080 | 0.02% | |||||
Revolutionary Communist Party of India | 1 | 0 | 478 | 0.01% | |||||
Independents | 299 | 7 | 750818 | 13.06% | |||||
Total: | 722 | 146 | 5749825 |
List of winning candidate
[edit]See also
[edit]- 1974 elections in India
- 1971 Odisha Legislative Assembly election
- 1977 Odisha Legislative Assembly election
References
[edit]- ^ 1974 Odisha Legislative Assembly election
- ^ "Brief History of Odisha Legislative Assembly Since 1937". Archived from the original on 2007-01-09. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
- ^ Story of Orissa CM Binayak Acharya: A political rags-to-riches tale
- ^ "The 'Iron lady' of Odisha politics". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2019-06-28.