| Election Name: | 2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election |
| Country: | India |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2004 Odisha Legislative Assembly election |
| Previous Year: | 2004 |
| Next Election: | 2014 Odisha Legislative Assembly election |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
| Election Date: | 16, 23 April 2009 |
| Seats For Election: | All 147 Assembly Constituencies |
| Turnout: | 65.35%[1] |
| Leader1: | Naveen Patnaik |
| Leader Since1: | 1996 |
| Party1: | Biju Janata Dal |
| Alliance1: | United National Progressive Alliance |
| Leaders Seat1: | Hinjili |
| Last Election1: | 2004 |
| Seats Before1: | 61 |
| Seats Needed1: | 74 |
| Seats1: | 103 |
| Seat Change1: | 42 |
| Popular Vote1: | 6,903,641 |
| Percentage1: | 38.86% |
| Swing1: | 11.50% |
| Leader2: | Bhupinder Singh |
| Party2: | Indian National Congress |
| Alliance2: | United Progressive Alliance |
| Leaders Seat2: | Narla |
| Last Election2: | 2004 |
| Seats Before2: | 38 |
| Seats Needed2: | 74 |
| Seats2: | 27 |
| Seat Change2: | 11 |
| Popular Vote2: | 5,169,559 |
| Percentage2: | 29.10% |
| Swing2: | 5.72% |
| Image3: | Lotus flower symbol.svg |
| Party3: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Alliance3: | National Democratic Alliance |
| Last Election3: | 2004 |
| Seats Before3: | 32 |
| Seats Needed3: | 74 |
| Seats3: | 6 |
| Seat Change3: | 26 |
| Popular Vote3: | 2,674,067 |
| Percentage3: | 15.05% |
| Swing3: | 1.61% |
| Map Size: | 200px |
| Chief Minister | |
| Before Election: | Naveen Patnaik |
| Before Party: | Biju Janata Dal |
| After Election: | Naveen Patnaik |
| After Party: | Biju Janata Dal |
| Majority Seats: | 74 |
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,[2] thus paving the way for his third consecutive term as the Chief Minister of Odisha.
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.[3] The Naveen Patnaik government had been sworn in at the Bhubaneswar Raj Bhavan by Odisha Governor M. M. Rajendran in May 2004.[4]
With the tenure of the Orissa Assembly scheduled to expire on 29 June 2009, the Election Commission of India announced[5] 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.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8]
The BJD then declared that they support neither Congress nor BJP.[9] 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.[10]
| Poll Event | Phase 1 | Phase 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Announcement & Issue of Press Note | 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 | |
| Date of election being completed | Thursday, 28 May 2009 | |
| Constituencies Polling on this day | 70 | 77 |
| Source: Election Commission of India |
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.[11]
| Party | Flag | 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% | ||||
| + Source: Election Commission of India [12] [13] | |||||||||
| Constituency | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Padampur | None | Bijaya Ranjan Singh Bariha | ||
| Bijepur | None | Subal Sahu | ||
| Bargarh | None | Sadhu Nepak | ||
| Attabira | SC | Nihar Ranjan Mahananda | ||
| Bhatli | None | Susanta Singh | ||
| Brajarajnagar | None | Anup Kumar Sai | ||
| Jharsuguda | None | Naba Kishore Das | ||
| Talsara | ST | Dr. Prafulla Majhi | ||
| Sundargarh | ST | Jogesh Kumar Singh | ||
| Biramitrapur | ST | George Tirkey | ||
| Raghunathpali | SC | Subrat Tarai | ||
| Rourkela | None | Sarada Prasad Nayak | ||
| Rajgangapur | ST | Gregory Minz | ||
| Bonai | ST | Bhimsen Choudhury | ||
| Kuchinda | ST | Rajendra Kumar Chhatria | ||
| Rengali | SC | Duryodhan Gardia | ||
| Sambalpur | None | Jayanarayan Mishra | ||
| Rairakhol | None | Prasanna Acharya | ||
| Deogarh | None | Sanjeeb Kumar Pradhan | ||
| Telkoi | ST | Premananda Nayak | ||
| Ghasipura | None | Badrinarayan Patra | ||
| Anandapur | SC | Bhagirathi Sethy | ||
| Patna | ST | Hrusikesh Naik | ||
| Keonjhar | ST | Subarna Naik | ||
| Champua | None | Jitu Patnaik | ||
| Jashipur | ST | Kamala Kanta Nayak | ||
| Saraskana | ST | Rama Chandra Hansdah | ||
| Rairangpur | ST | Shyam Charan Hansdah | ||
| Bangriposi | ST | Sarojini Hembram | ||
| Karanjia | ST | Bijay Kumar Naik | ||
| Udala | ST | Shrinath Soren | ||
| Badasahi | SC | Manoranjan Sethi | ||
| Baripada | ST | Sananda Marandi | ||
| Morada | None | Praveen Chandra Bhanjdeo | ||
| Jaleswar | None | Debi Prasanna Chand | ||
| Bhograi | None | Ananta Das | ||
| Basta | None | Raghunath Mohanty | ||
| Balasore | None | Jiban Pradip Dash | ||
| Remuna | SC | Sudarshan Jena | ||
| Nilgiri | None | Pratap Chandra Sarangi | ||
| Soro | SC | Surendra Prasad Pramanik | ||
| Simulia | None | Parsuram Panigrahi | ||
| Bhandaripokhari | None | Prafulla Samal | ||
| Bhadrak | None | Jugal Kishore Pattnaik | ||
| Basudevpur | None | Bijayshree Routray | ||
| Dhamnagar | SC | Rajendra Kumar Das | ||
| Chandabali | None | Bijaya Nayak | ||
| Binjharpur | SC | Pramila Mallik | ||
| Bari | None | Debasis Nayak | ||
| Barchana | None | Amar Prasad Satpathy | ||
| Dharmasala | None | Kalpataru Das | ||
| Jajpur | None | Pranab Prakash Das | ||
| Korei | None | Pritiranjan Gharai | ||
| Sukinda | None | Prafulla Chandra Ghadai | ||
| Dhenkanal | None | Nabin Nanda | ||
| Hindol | SC | Anjali Behera | ||
| Kamakhyanagar | None | Prafulla Kumar Mallik | ||
| Parjanga | None | Dr. Nrusingha Sahu | ||
| Pallahara | None | Rabi Narayan Pani | ||
| Talcher | None | Braja Kishore Pradhan | ||
| Angul | None | Rajani Kant Singh | ||
| Chhendipada | SC | Khageswar Behera | ||
| Athamallik | None | Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo | ||
| Birmaharajpur | SC | Padmanabh Behera | ||
| Sonepur | None | Niranjan Pujari | ||
| Loisingha | SC | Ramakanta Seth | ||
| Patnagarh | None | Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo | ||
| Bolangir | None | Anang Uday Singh Deo | ||
| Titlagarh | None | Surendra Singh Bhoi | ||
| Kantabanji | None | Santosh Singh Saluja | ||
| Nuapada | None | Rajendra Dholakia | ||
| Khariar | None | Hitesh Kumar Bagartti | ||
| Umarkote | ST | Jagabandhu Majhi | ||
| Jharigam | ST | Ramesh Chandra Majhi | ||
| Nabarangpur | ST | Manohar Randhari | ||
| Dabugam | ST | Bhujabal Majhi | ||
| Lanjigarh | ST | Shibaji Majhi | ||
| Junagarh | None | Gobardhan Dash | ||
| Dharmgarh | None | Puspendra Singh Deo | ||
| Bhawanipatna | SC | Dusmanta Naik | ||
| Narla | None | Bhupinder Singh | ||
| Baliguda | ST | Karendra Majhi | ||
| G. Udayagiri | ST | Manoj Kumar Pradhan | ||
| Phulbani | ST | Debendra Kanhar | ||
| Kantamal | None | Bhagban Kanhor | ||
| Boudh | None | Pradip Kumar Amat | ||
| Baramba | None | Debiprasad Mishra | ||
| Banki | None | Pravata Kumar Tripathy | ||
| Athagarh | None | Ramesh Rout | ||
| Barabati-cuttack | None | Debashish Samantaray | ||
| Choudwar-cuttack | None | Pravat Ranjan Biswal | ||
| Niali | SC | Pramod Kumar Mallick | ||
| Cuttack Sadar | SC | Kalindi Behera | ||
| Salipur | None | Chandra Sarathi Behera | ||
| Mahanga | None | Pratap Jena | ||
| Patkura | None | Bed Prakash Agrawalla | ||
| Kendrapara | SC | Sipra Mallick | ||
| Aul | None | Pratap Keshari Deb | ||
| Rajanagar | None | Alekh Kumar Jena | ||
| Mahakalapada | None | Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak | ||
| Paradeep | None | Damodara Rout | ||
| Tirtol | SC | Rabindra Nath Bhoi | ||
| Balikuda-ersama | None | Prasanta Kumar Muduli | ||
| Jagatsinghpur | None | Bishnu Charan Das | ||
| Kakatpur | SC | Rabi Mallick | ||
| Nimapara | None | Samir Ranjan Dash | ||
| Puri | None | Maheswar Mohanty | ||
| Bramhagiri | None | Sanjay Kumar Das Burma | ||
| Satyabadi | None | Prasad Kumar Harichandan | ||
| Pipili | None | Pradeep Maharathy | ||
| Jayadev | SC | Arabinda Dhali | ||
| Bhubaneswar Central | None | (madhya) Bijaya Kumar Mohanty | ||
| Bhubaneswar North | None | (uttar) Bhagirathi Badajena | ||
| Ekamra-bhubaneswar | None | Ashok Chandra Panda | ||
| Jatani | None | Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray | ||
| Begunia | None | Prashanta Nanda | ||
| Khurda | None | Rajendra Ku. Sahoo | ||
| Chilika | None | Raghunath Sahu | ||
| Ranpur | None | Satyanarayan Pradhan | ||
| Khandapada | None | Siddharth Sekhar Singh | ||
| Daspalla | SC | Kashinath Mallik | ||
| Nayagarh | None | Arun Kumar Sahu | ||
| Bhanjanagar | None | Bikram Keshari Arukha | ||
| Polasara | None | Niranjan Pradhan | ||
| Kabisuryangar | None | V. Sugnana Kumari Deo | ||
| Khalikote | SC | Purna Chandra Sethy | ||
| Chhatrapur | SC | Adikanda Sethi | ||
| Aska | None | Debaraj Mohanty | ||
| Surada | None | Purna Chandra Swain | ||
| Sanakhemundi | None | Ramesh Chandra Jena | ||
| Hinjili | None | Naveen Patnaik | ||
| Gopalpur | None | Dr.pradeep Kumar Panigrahy | ||
| Berhampur | None | Dr.ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik | ||
| Digapahandi | None | Surya Narayana Patro | ||
| Chikiti | None | Usha Devi | ||
| Mohana | ST | Chakradhara Paik | ||
| Paralakhemundi | None | K.narayana Rao | ||
| Gunupur | ST | Ramamurty Mutika | ||
| Bissam Cuttack | ST | Damburudhara Ulaka | ||
| Rayagada | ST | Lal Bihari Himirika | ||
| Laxmipur | ST | Jhina Hikaka | ||
| Kotpad | ST | Basudev Majhi | ||
| Jeypore | None | Rabi Narayan Nanda | ||
| Koraput | SC | Raghuram Padal | ||
| Pottangi | ST | Rama Chandra Kadam | ||
| Malkangiri | ST | Mukunda Sodi | ||
| Chitrakonda | ST | Mamta Madhi | ||