1985 Odisha Legislative Assembly election

The elections were held for 145 instead of 147 constituencies as a result of some candidates death contesting in Kakatpur and Keonjhar constituency. Out of 147 seats, 22 were reserved for Scheduled Castes, 33 for Scheduled Tribes and 92 for unreserved seats.

There are seven national parties CPI, INC, BJP, JNP, CPM, ICS and LKD, One state party ICJ three registered unrecognised party Jharkhand Party, JMM and SUC and some Independent Politicians took part in this assembly election. Indian National Congress emerged as the winner by winning 117{{Cite web|title=Odisha Election Results: 2014 to 1971 Legislative Assembly|url=https://resultuniversity.com/odisha-election#1985|access-date=2021-06-17|website=resultuniversity.com}} seats. Janaki Ballabh Patnaik become the Chief Minister of Odisha and was replaced by Hemananda Biswal{{Cite web|last=odisha|first=chief minister of|date=2021-06-17|title=list of former chief minister|url=https://cm.odisha.gov.in/former-cms|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313032309/http://cm.odisha.gov.in:80/former-cms |archive-date=2018-03-13 }} for the last few months of this assembly tenure. Biju Patnaik become the Leader of Opposition in the 9th Orissa Assembly.

{{election table|title=Summary of results of the 1985 Odisha Legislative Assembly election{{Cite web|title=Orissa 1985|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3625-orissa-1985/|access-date=2021-06-17|website=Election Commission of India|language=en-IN}} |sortable=yes}}

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! Political Party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! Net Change
in seats !! % of
Seats

! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in
vote %

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| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress

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| 147 || 117 || {{decrease}}1 || 79.59 || 40,07,258 || 51.08 || {{increase}} 3.3

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| {{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Janata Party

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| 67 || 1 || {{increase}} 1 || 0.68|| 2,04,346|| 5.66 || {{decrease}} 1.43

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| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India

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| 27 || 1 || {{decrease}} 3 || 0.68 || 2,59,508 || 16.12 || {{increase}} 13.4

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| {{party color cell|Janata Party}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Janata Party

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| 140 || 21 || - || 14.28 || 24,01,566 || 32.03 ||

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| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}

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| 374 || 7 || N/A || 4.76 || 8,23,850 || 11.54 || N/A

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! style="text-align:center;" |Total Seats !! 147 ({{steady}} ) !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 1,53,37,200 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! colspan = 2|80,16,583 (52.27%)

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