Elections to the sixth Orissa Legislative Assembly were held 1974.[1][2][3]
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Constituencies
editThe elections were held for 147 seats. A total of 722 candidates contested for these 147 seats.
Political parties
editThree 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
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| Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
| Color | Flag | Name | Symbol | Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− |
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Indian National Congress (R) | |
2,152,818 | 37.44% |  9.26 |
135 | 69 | 18 | |
| Utkal Congress | 1,521,064 | 26.45% | 2.46 |
95 | 35 | 2 | |||
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Swatantra Party |  |
694,473 | 12.08% |  5.36 |
56 | 21 | 15 | |
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Communist Party of India |  |
279,738 | 4.87% | 0.08 |
14 | 7 | 3 | |
| Samyukta Socialist Party |  |
101,789 | 1.77% | 0.56 |
17 | 2 | 2 | ||
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) |  |
67,600 | 1.18% | 0.02 |
8 | 3 | 1 | |
| Orissa Jana Congress | 67,169 | 1.17% | 3.99 |
42 | 1 |  | |||
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Jharkhand Party | |
34,786 | 0.60% | 1.04 |
12 | 1 | 3 | |
| - | Independents | - | 750,818 | 13.06% | 5.51 |
299 | 7 | 3 | |
| Total | - | - | - | - | 146 | - | |||
| Valid Votes | 5,749,825 | 48.76 | |||||||
| Invalid Votes | 346,895 | - | |||||||
| Total Votes polled / turnout | 6,096,720 | 51.70 | |||||||
| Abstentation | 5,694,717 | - | |||||||
| Total No. of Electors | 11,791,437 | ||||||||
Elected Members
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ↑ 1974 Orissa Legislative Assembly election
- ↑ "Brief History of Orissa 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 Orissa politics". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
- ↑ "1974 Orissa Legislative Assembly Election". Election Commission of India.
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