Elections to the Orissa Legislative Assembly were held in February 2000 to elect members of the 147 constituencies in Orissa, India. The BJP and BJD fought election together as NDA. The National Democratic Alliance won the most seats and Naveen Pattanaik was appointed as the Chief Minister of Orissa. The number of constituencies was set as 147 by the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.
Parties and alliances
As per prepoll alliance, seats where divided into 4:3 ratio. PartyFlagSymbolLeaderContesting SeatsBiju Janata DalNaveen Patnaik 84Bharatiya Janata PartyJual Oram 63
PartyFlagSymbolLeaderContesting SeatsIndian National CongressHemananda Biswal145
Others PartyFlagSymbolContesting SeatsTrinamool Congress36Communist Party of India29Communist Party of India (Marxist)15Janata Dal (Secular)24Jharkhand Mukti Morcha21
List of Candidates ConstituencyNDAINC # Name Party Candidate Party Candidate 1 Karanjia (ST) Raghunath Hembram Sukanti Nayak 2 Jashipur (ST) Bhanu Charan Naik Sudhir Chandra Naik 3 Bahalda (ST) Laxman Soren Saiba Sushil Kumar Hansdah 4 Rairangpur (ST) Droupadi Murmu Laxman Majhi 5 Bangriposi (ST) Chaitanya Prasad Majhi Gouri Naik 6 Kuliana (ST) Sananda Marndi Baidyanath Singh 7 Baripada Bimal Lochan Das Dinakrushna 8 Baisinga (ST) Kandra Soren Kuanria Majhi 9 Khunta (ST) Golak Naik Saraswati Hembram 10 Udala (ST) Bhaskar Madhei Rabaneswar Madhei 11 Bhograi Dr. Kamala Das Kartikeswar Patra 12 Jaleswar Aswini Patra Jayanarayan Mohanty 13 Basta Raghunath Mohanty Debiprasanna Chand 14 Balasore Jiban Pradip Dash Gopanarayan Das 15 Soro Sk. Salimuddin Mohammed Kartik Mohapatra 16 Simulia Parsuram Panigrahi Padma Lochan Panda 17 Nilgiri Shyamananda Mohapatra Sukumar Nayak 18 Bhandaripokhari (SC) Ratha Das Kumar Sree Chiranjibi 19 Bhadrak Prafulla Samal Biren Palei 20 Dhamnagar Manmohan Samal Jagannath Rout 21 Chandbali (SC) Bishnu Charan Sethi Netrananda Mallick 22 Basudevpur Bijayshree Routray Meenakshee Nayak 23 Sukinda Prafulla Chandra Ghadai Jayakrishna Behura 24 Korai Sanchita Mohanty 25 Jajpur (SC) Suryamani Jena Amiya Kanta Mallick 26 Dharamsala Kalpataru Das Kangali Charan Panda 27 Barchana Amar Prasad Satpathy Sitakanta Mohapatra 28 Bari-Derabisi Debasis Nayak Kulamani Rout 29 Binjharpur (SC) Pramila Mallik Anadi Charan Das 30 Aul Pratap Keshari Deb Dolagovinda Nayak 31 Patamundai (SC) Tapash Kumar Das Ganeswar Behera 32 Rajnagar Nalini Kant Mohanty Bijay Pradhan 33 Kendrapara Bed Prakash Agarwalla Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty 34 Patkura Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak Umakanta Nayak 35 Tirtol Debashish Samantaray Basanta Kumar Biswal 36 Ersama Damodar Rout Bijay Kumar Nayak 37 Balikuda Raghunandan Das Umesh Chandra Swain 38 Jagatsinghpur (SC) Bishnu Charan Das Arakhita Bhoi 39 Kissannagar Pratap Jena Bira Kishore Parida 40 Mahanga Sarat Kumar Kar Sk. Matlub Ali 41 Salepur (SC) Kalandi Behera Prakash Chandra Behera 42 Gobindpur Panchanan Kanungo Rabindra Kumar Mallick 43 Cuttack Sadar Nibedita Pradhan Bijaylakshmi Sahoo 44 Cuttack City Samir Dey Syed Mustafiz Ahmed 45 Choudwar Rajkishore Ram Kailash Chandra Baral 46 Banki Pravat Tripathy Debasis Patnaik 47 Athgarh Ranendra Pratap Swain Janaki Ballav Patnaik 48 Baramba Debi Mishra Laxmi Devi 49 Balipatna (SC) Raghab Chandra Sethi Benudhar Bhoi 50 Bhubaneswar Biswabhusan Harichandan Dr. Jagannath Mohapatra 51 Jatni Sarat Paikray Suresh Kumar Routray 52 Pipli Pradeep Maharathy Yudhistir Samantaray 53 Nimapara (SC) Baidhar Malik Rabindra Kumar Sethy 54 Kakatpur Surendra Nath Naik Satyabrata Patra 55 Satyabadi Chandramadhab Mishra Prasad Kumar Harichandan 56 Puri Maheswar Mohanty Bipin Dash 57 Brahmagiri Ajaya Jena Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra 58 Chilka Bibhuti Bhusan Harichandan Debendranath Mansingh 59 Khurda Minati Harichandan Dillip Srichandan 60 Begunia Prashanta Nanda Kailash Chandra Mohapatra 61 Ranpur Surama Padhy Ramakanta Mishra 62 Nayagarh Bhagabat Behera Sitakanta Mishra 63 Khandapara Bijayalaxmi Pattnaik Bibhuti Bhusan Singh Mardaraj 64 Daspalla Sukanta Kumara Panigrahi Harihar Karan 65 Jaganathprasad (SC) Madhaba Nando Behera Simanchala Behera 66 Bhanjanagar Bikram Keshari Arukha B. Dandpani Patro 67 Suruda Ananta Narayan Singh Deo Usha Rani Panda 68 Aska Debaraj Mohanty Uma Charan Bisoyi 69 Kavisuryanagar Ladu Kishore Swain Govinda Chandra Bisoyi 70 Kodala Rama Krushna Patnaik Udayanath Pradhan 71 Khallikote V. Sugnana Kumari Deo Trinath Samantara 72 Chatrapur Rama Chandra Panda Daniel Das 73 Hinjili Naveen Patnaik Udayanath Nayak 74 Gopalpur (SC) Rama Chandra Sethy Trinath Behera 75 Berhampur Ramesh Ch. Chyau Patnaik Bikram Kumar Panda 76 Chikati Usha Devi Chintamani Dyan Samantara 77 Mohana Surjya Narayana Patro Prasanta Chandra Swain 78 Ramagiri (ST) Bharat Paik Haladhar Karji 79 Parlakhemundi Venkata Ramana Trinath Sahu 80 Gunupur (ST) Ramurty Gamango Bhagirathi Gomango 81 Bissam-Cuttack (ST) Sarangadhar Kadraka Dambarudhar Ulaka 82 Rayagada (ST) Lalbihari Himirika Ulaka Ramachandra 83 Lakshmipur (ST) Bibhisana Majhi Gaura Chandra Muduli 84 Pottangi (ST) Jayaram Pangi Rama Chandra Kadam 85 Koraput Iswar Chandra Panigrahi Tara Prasad Bahinipati 86 Malkangiri (SC) Arabinda Dhali Nimai Chandra Sarkar 87 Chitrakonda (ST) Gangadhar Nayak Mamta Madhi 88 Kotpad (ST) Sadan Naik Basudev Majhi 89 Jeypore Rabi Narayan Nanda Gupta Prasad Das 90 Nowrangpur Subas Chandra Dash Habibulla Khan 91 Kodinga (ST) Domburu Majhi Sadan Nayak 92 Dabugam (ST) Bhagaban Majhi Bhujabal Majhi 93 Umarkote (ST) Dharmu Gond Parama Pujari 94 Nawapara Basanta Kumar Panda Prem Kumar Azad 95 Khariar Durjyodhan Majhi Rajshree Debi 96 Dharamgarh (SC) Bira Sipka Bharat Bemal 97 Koksara Roshni Singh Deo Sunil Chandra Nayak 98 Junagarh Himanshu Shekhar Meher Bhupinder Singh 99 Bhawanipatna (SC) Pradipta Kumar Naik Dusmanta Naik 100 Narla (ST) Balabhadra Majhi Kumar Mani Sabar 101 Kesinga Dhaneswar Majhi Jaganath Pattanaik 102 Balliguda (ST) Surendra Kanhar Sahura Mallik 103 Udayagiri (ST) Saluga Pradhan Nagarjun Pradhan 104 Phulbani (SC) Bishnu Priya Behera Abhimanyu Behera 105 Boudh Satchidananda Dalal Sujit Kumar Padhi 106 Titilagarh (SC) Jogendra Behera Dambarudhar Chhatria 107 Kantabanji Subash Chandra Agrawal Santosh Singh Saluja 108 Patnagarh Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo Rajani Prusty 109 Saintala Jagneswar Surendra Singh Bhoi 110 Loisingha Bal Gopal Mishra 111 Bolangir Anang Udaya Singh Deo Md. Muzafar Hussain Khan 112 Sonepur (SC) Kunduru Kushal Achyutananda Biswal 113 Binka Niranjan Pujari Banamali Hota 114 Birmaharajpur Baishnaba Padhan Rama Chandra Pradhan 115 Athmallik Nagendra Kumar Pradhan Amarnath Pradhan 116 Angul Adwait Prasad Singh Ramesh Jena 117 Hindol (SC) Anjali Behera Maheswar Naik 118 Dhenkanal Krushna Chandra Patra Nabin Chandra Narayan Das 119 Gondia Nabin Nanda Sidheswari Prasad Mishra 120 Kamakhyanagar Brahmananda Biswal Premalata Mohapatra 121 Pallahara Dharmendra Pradhan Durga Prasad Sahoo 122 Talcher (SC) Mahesh Sahoo Arjun Behera 123 Padampur Bijaya Singh Bariha Satya Bhusan Sahu 124 Melchhamunda Sirish Kumar Bohidar Prakash Chandra Debta 125 Bijepur Ashok Kumar Panigrahy Ripu Nath Seth 126 Bhatli (SC) Bimbadhar Kuanr Mohan Nag 127 Bargarh Ananda Acharya Nabin Kumar Padhan 128 Sambalpur Jaya Narayan Mishra Anand Jena 129 Brajarajnagar Suresh Pujari Anup Kumar Sai 130 Jharsuguda Kishore Kumar Mohanty Birendra Chandra Pandey 131 Laikera (ST) Brundaban Majhi Hemanand Biswal 132 Kuchinda (ST) Rabinarayan Naik Panu Chandra Nayak 133 Rairakhol (SC) Durjodhan Sohela Abhimanyu Kumar 134 Deogarh Subash Chandra Panigrahi Indukanta Pradhan 135 Sundargarh Shankarsan Naik Kishore Chandra Patel 136 Talsara (ST) Indramani Kalo Gajadhar Majhi 137 Rajgangpur (ST) Mangala Kisan Damayanti Roudia 138 Biramitrapur (ST) Sukdev Pradhan Remis Kerketta 139 Rourkela Ajit Das Pravat Mohapatra 140 Raghunathpali (ST) Shankar Oram Anil Minz 141 Bonai (ST) Dayanidhi Kisan Janardan Dehury 142 Champua (ST) Harihar Soren Madhaba Sardar 143 Patna (ST) Gourahari Naik Mansingh Munda 144 Keonjhar (ST) Mohan Charan Majhi Jagadish Naik 145 Telkoi (ST) Niladri Nayak Prana Ballav Nayak 146 Ramchandrapur Sri Akshya Mishra Sri Niranjan Patnaik 147 Anandapur (SC) Sri Mayadhar Jena Sri Jayadev Jena
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Elected members