Odisha Legislative Assembly election, 2009

Odisha Assembly Elections 2009

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16 April, 23 April 2009

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Turnout

65.32%

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Naveen Patnaik	Bhupinder Singh
Party	BJD	INC
Alliance	TF	UPA
Leader since	1996
Leader's seat	Hinjili	Narla
Last election	2004	2004
Seats before	61	38
Seats won	103	27
Seat change	42	11
Popular vote	6,903,641	5,169,559
Percentage	38.86%	29.10%
Swing	11.50%	5.72%

Odisha District Map

CM before election

Naveen Patnaik
BJD

CM-elect

Naveen Patnaik
BJD

The Odisha Legislative Assembly election of 2009 took place in April 2009, concurrently with the Indian general election, 2009. The elections were held in the state in the first (2009-04-16) and second (2009-04-23) phases. The results were declared on 2009-05-16. Despite having recently separated from the Bharatiya Janata Party after an 11-year partnership, the Biju Janata Dal 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 2009-05-19, 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 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. The Naveen Patnaik Government had been sworn in at the Bhubaneswar Raj Bhavan by Governor M.M.Rajendran on 16 May 2009.

With the tenure of the Orissa Assembly scheduled to expire on 2009-06-29, the Election Commission of India announced on 2009-03-02 that the elections to the Orissa Assembly would be held at the same time as 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 falls under.

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