Elections to the Odisha Legislative Assembly were held in March 1995 to elect members of the 147 constituencies in Odisha, India. The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats and Janaki Ballabh Patnaik was appointed as the Chief Minister of Odisha. The number of constituencies was set as 147 by the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.

Result +Source: Election Commission of IndiaPartyPopular voteSeatsFlagNameSymbolVotes%±ppContestedWon+/−Indian National Congress 6,180,23739.089.31468070Janata Dal5,600,85335.4118.281464646Bharatiya Janata Party1,245,996 7.884.3214497Communist Party of India2,71,1991.711.272114Jharkhand Mukti Morcha307,5171.941.611644 -Jharkhand People's Party27,4940.17(new)41(new) -Independents -1,661,48510.513.1568262Total-100--147-Valid Votes15,815,00971.64Invalid Votes440,548 -Total Votes polled / turnout16,255,55773.64Abstention5,820,218 -Total No. of Electors22,075,775

Elected members

DistrictAC. No.ConstituencyMemberParty Mayurbhanj 1 Karanjia (ST) Raghunath Hembram 2 Jashipur (ST) Sambhunath Naik 3 Bahalda (ST) Khelarama Mahali 4 Rairangpur (ST) Laxman Majhi 5 Bangriposi (ST) Ajen Murmu 6 Kuliana (ST) Sudam Marndi 7 Baripada Prasanna Kumar Dash 8 Baisinga (ST) Pruthunatha Kisku 9 Khunta (ST) Saraswati Hembram 10 Udala (ST) Rabaneswara Madhei Balasore 11 Bhograi Kamala Das 12 Jaleswar Jaynarayana Mohanty 13 Basta Raghunath Mohanty 14 Balasore Arun Dey 15 Soro Kartika Mohapatra 16 Simulia Padma Lochan Panda 17 Nilgiri Akhyay Kumar Acharya Bhadrak 18 Bhandaripokhari (SC) Arjun Charan Sethi 19 Bhadrak Prafulla Samal 20 Dhamnagar Jagannath Rout 21 Chandbali (SC) Netrananda Mallik 22 Basudevpur Bijayshree Routray Jajpur 23 Sukinda Prafulla Chandra Ghadai 24 Korai Ashok Kumar Das 25 Jajpur (SC) Suryamani Jena 26 Dharamsala Kalpataru Das 27 Barchana Amar Prasad Satpathy 28 Bari-Derabisi Chinmaya Prasada Behera 29 Binjharpur (SC) Arjuna Das Kendrapara 30 Aul Dola Gobinda Nayak 31 Patamundai (SC) Ganeswar Behera 32 Rajnagar Nalinikanta Mohanty 33 Kendrapara Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty 34 Patkura Bijoy Mohapatra Jagatsinghpur 35 Tirtol Basanta Kumar Biswal 36 Ersama Bijaya Kumar Nayak 37 Balikuda Lalatendu Mohapatra 38 Jagatsinghpur (SC) Bishnu Charan Das Cuttack 39 Kissannagar Yudhisthir Das 40 Mahanga Sk. Matlub Alli 41 Salepur (SC) Rabindra Kumar Behera 42 Gobindpur Panchanan Kanungo 43 Cuttack Sadar Bijay Lakshmi Sahoo 44 Cuttack City Samir Dey 45 Choudwar Kahnu Charan Lenka 46 Banki Pravat Tripathy 47 Athgarh Ranendra Pratap Swain 48 Baramba Debiprasad Mishra Khurda 49 Balipatna (SC) Hrushikesh Nayak 50 Bhubaneswar Biju Patnaik 51 Jatni Suresh Kumar Routray Puri 52 Pipli Yudhistir Samantaray 53 Nimapara (SC) Rabindra Kumar Sethy 54 Kakatpur Baikunthanath Swain 55 Satyabadi Prasad Kumar Harichandan 56 Puri Maheswar Mohanty 57 Brahmagiri Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra Khurda 58 Chilka Debendra Nath Mansingh 59 Khurda Prasanna Kumar Patasani 60 Begunia Harihara Sahoo Nayagarh 61 Ranpur Ramakanta Mishra 62 Nayagarh Sitakanta Mishra 63 Khandapara Bibhuti Bhusan Singh Mardaraj 64 Daspalla Rudra Madhab Ray Ganjam 65 Jaganathprasad (SC) Madhaba Nanda Behera 66 Bhanjanagar Bikram Keshari Arukha 67 Suruda Ananta Narayan Singh Deo 68 Aska Usha Rani Panda 69 Kabisuryanagar Harihar Swain 70 Kodala Ram Krushna Patnaik 71 Khallikote V. Sugnana Kumari Deo 72 Chatrapur Daitari Behara 73 Hinjili Udayanath Nayak 74 Gopalpur (SC) Rama Chandra Sethy 75 Berhampur Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik 76 Chikiti Chintamani Dyan Samantara Gajapati 77 Mohana Surjya Narayan Patro 78 Ramagiri (ST) Haladhar Karjee 79 Parlakhemundi Trinath Sahu Rayagada 80 Gunupur (ST) Akshya Kumar Gomango 81 Bissam-cuttack (ST) Dambarudhar Ulaka 82 Rayagada (ST) Ulaka Rama Chandra Koraput 83 Lakshmipur (ST) Anantaram Majhi 84 Pottangi (ST) Ram Chandra Kadam 85 Koraput Gupta Prasad Das Malkangiri 86 Malkangiri (SC) Arabinda Dhali 87 Chitrakonda (ST) Gangadhar Madi Koraput 88 Kotpad (ST) Basudev Majhi 89 Jeypore Raghunath Patnaik Nowrangpur 90 Nowrangpur Habibulla Khan 91 Kodinga (ST) Sadan Nayak 92 Dabugam (ST) Jadav Majhi 93 Umarkote (ST) Parama Pujari Nawapara 94 Nawapara Ghasiram Majhi 95 Khariar Duryodhan Majhi Kalahandi 96 Dharamgarh (SC) Bira Sipka 97 Koksara Roshini Singh Deo 98 Junagarh Bikram Keshari Deo 99 Bhawanipatna (SC) Pradipta Kumar Naik 100 Narla (ST) Balabhadra Majhi 101 Kesinga Bhupinder Singh Kandhamal 102 Balliguda (ST) Sahura Mallick 103 Udayagiri (ST) Nagarjuna Pradhan 104 Phulbani (SC) Dasarathi Behera Boudh 105 Boudh Satchidananda Dalal Balangir 106 Titilagarh (SC) Jogendra Behera 107 Kantabanji Santosh Singh Saluja 108 Patnagarh Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo 109 Saintala Surendra Singh Bhoi 110 Loisingha Balgopal Mishra 111 Bolangir Ananga Udaya Singh Deo Subarnapur 112 Sonepur (SC) Kunduru Kushal 113 Binka Narasingha Mishra 114 Birmaharajpur Ram Chandra Pradhan Angul 115 Athmallik Amarnath Pradhan 116 Angul Ramesh Jena Dhenkanal 117 Hindol (SC) Maheswar Naik 118 Dhenkanal Nabin Chandra Narayandas 119 Gondia Nandini Satapathy Angul 120 Kamakhyanagar Kailash Chandra Mohapatra 121 Pallahara Bibhudhendra Pratap Das 122 Talcher (SC) Mahesh Sahoo Bargarh 123 Padampur Bijaya Ranjan Singh Bariha 124 Melchhamunda Prakash Chandra Debta 125 Bijepur Ripunath Seth 126 Bhatli (SC) Mohan Nag 127 Bargarh Prasanna Acharya Sambalpur 128 Sambalpur Durga Shankar Patanaik Jharsuguda 129 Brajarajnagar Prasanna Kumar Panda 130 Jharsuguda Birendra Chandra Pandey 131 Laikera (ST) Hemananda Biswal Sambalpur 132 Kuchinda (ST) Panu Chandra Naik 133 Rairakhol (SC) Abhimanyu Kumar Deogarh 134 Deogarh Pradipta Gang Deb Sundergarh 135 Sundargarh Kishore Chandra Patel 136 Talsara (ST) Gajadhar Majhi 137 Rajgangpur (ST) Mangala Kisan 138 Biramitrapur (ST) George Tirkey 139 Rourkela Prabhat Mohapatra 140 Raghunathpali (ST) Mansid Ekka 141 Bonai (ST) Jual Oram Keonjhar 142 Champua (ST) Dhanurjay Laguri 143 Patna Hrushikesh Naik 144 Keonjhar (ST) Jogendra Naik 145 Telkoi (ST) Chandrasena Naik 146 Ramchandrapur Niranjan Patnaik 147 Anandapur (SC) Jayadev Jena

Analysis In Orissa, the Janata Dal had won massive landslide victory in 1990 elections by winning 84% of total seats. It completed full 5 year term and in 1995 elections it lost by winning 30% seats, giving way to Congress.

It is believed that one of the main reasons was, the then excise minister Prasanna Acharya banned alcoholic and tobacco products in 1992. It is believed, those who were addicted to it, voted for Congress in following elections of 1995. Congress, after coming to power, withdrew the ban. It justified that State Govt. will earn revenue from this business.

It accused, the JD is depriving the state from economic prosperity and it is prioritising the Coastal Belt instead of Tribal belt. But Congress itself couldn't work for economic progress or Tribal development, when it came to power.

The Janata CM Sri Biju Pattanaik had criticised the tribal districts as, "not even capable of having built a cycle factory, what steel plant would be built?" So JD lost tribal votes.

See also List of constituencies of the Odisha Legislative Assembly 1995 elections in India

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