The Seventh Orissa Legislative Assembly was convened after 1977 Orissa Legislative Assembly election.

Brief history After lifting of nationwide Emergency & Janata Party's high margin win in 1977 election, PM Morarji Desai dismissed 9 Congress led state govt including Odisha by imposing President's rule under Article 356 and called snap election of these state's assemblies. Janata Party came to power after winning in landslide of 110 seats. Shri Nilamani Routray was sworn in as CM of Odisha. After Cong's landslide win in 1980 election, PM Indira Gandhi dismissed 9 opposition led state govt including Odisha by imposing President's rule under Article 356 and called snap election of these state's assemblies. Shri Routray resigned on 17 February 1980.

House Composition PartyStrengthJanata Party110Indian National Congress (R)26Communist Party of India (Marxist)1Communist Party of India1Independent9

Office Bearers PostPortraitNameTenurePartyGovernorHarcharan Singh BrarAssembly Begins22 September 1977N/ABhagwat Dayal Sharma23 September 1977Assembly DissolvesSpeaker Satyapriya Mohanty1 July 197717 February 1980Deputy SpeakerSurendra Nath Naik27 July 197717 February 1980Leader of the HouseNilamani Routray26 June 197717 February 1980Leader of OppositionChintamani Panigrahi29 June 197720 February 1978 Brundaban Nayak20 February 19783 September 1979Prahlad Mallik3 September 197913 February 1980Ananta Narayan Singh Deo13 February 198017 February 1980

Council of Ministers

Members of Legislative Assembly +SourceDistrictAC. No.ConstituencyMemberPartyRemarksMayurbhanj1Karanjia (ST)Raghunath Hemram 2Jashipur (ST)Kanhuram Hembram 3Bahalda (ST)Sunaram Soren 4Rairangpur (ST)Arjun Majhi 5Bangriposi (ST)Purusottam Naik 6Kuliana (ST)Niranjan Hembram 7BaripadaPrasanna Kumar Dash 8Baisinga (ST)Ram Chandar Kisku 9Khunta (ST)Ramesh Soren 10Udala (ST)Birabhadra Singh Baleshwar11BhograiSushant Chand 12JaleswarGadadhar Giri 13BastaMaheshwar Baug 14BalasoreKartik Chandar Rout 15SoroHaraprasad Mohapatra 16SimuliaGopinath Das 17NilgiriRajendra Chandra Mardaraj 18Bhandaripokhari (SC)Kapila Charan Sethi 19BhadrakRatnakar Mohanty 20DhamnagarHrudananda Mallick 21Chandbali (SC)Gangadhar Das 22BasudevpurNilamani Routray Chief MinisterCuttack23SukindaAnanda Manjari Devi 24KoraiAshok Kumar Das 25Jajpur (SC)Jaganath Malik 26DharamsalaRabi Das 27BarchanaManagobinda Samal 28Bari-DerabisiSrikant Kumar Jena 29Binjharpur (SC)Santanu Kumar Das 30AulSarat Kumar Deb 31Patamundai (SC)Tapas Kumar Das 32RajnagarNalinikanta Mohanty 33KendraparaBed Prakash Agrawal 34PatkuraPrahallad Mallick Leader of Opposition35TirtolPratap Chandra Mohanty 36ErsamaDamodar Rout 37BalikudaUmesh Swain 38Jagatsinghpur (SC)Kanduri Charan Mallik 39KissannagarBatakrishna Jena 40MahangaPradipta Kishore Das 41Salepur (SC)Kalindi Charan Behera 42GobindpurPanchanan Kanungo 43Cuttack SadarSangram Keshari Mohapatra 44Cuttack CityBiswanath Pandit 45ChoudwarRajkishore Ram 46BankiJogesh Chandra Rout 47AthgarhRasmanjari Devi 48BarambaTrilochan Singh Deo Puri49Balipatna (SC)Gopinath Bhoi 50BhubaneswarSatyapriya Mohanty Speaker51JatniSuresh Kumar Routray 52PipliKiran Lekha Mohanty 53Nimapara (SC)Govinda Chandra Sethi 54KakatpurSurendra Nath Naik Deputy Speaker55SatyabadiChandra Madhab Misra 56PuriBraja Kishore Tripathy 57BrahmagiriAjay Kumar Jena 58ChilkaBiswabhusan Harichandan 59KhurdaSudarsan Mohanty 60BeguniaChintamani Panigrahi Leader of Opposition61RanpurRamesh Chandra Panda 62NayagarhBhagabat Behera 63KhandaparaSatyasundar Mishra 64DaspallaHarihar Karan Ganjam65Jaganathprasad (SC)Udayanath Naik 66BhanjanagarJami Subba Rao Prusty 67SurudaAnanta Narayan Singh Deo Leader of Opposition68AskaHarihar Swain 69KabisuryanagarTarini Patnaik 70KodalaRam Krushna Patnaik 71KhallikoteV. Sugnana Kumari Deo 72ChatrapurBiswanath Sahu 73HinjiliBrundaban Nayak Leader of Opposition74Gopalpur (SC)Ghansyam Behera 75BerhampurRatna Manjari Devi 76ChikitiJagannath Pati 77MohanaUdaya Narayan Devi 78Ramagiri (ST)Gorosang Savara 79ParlakhemundiBijaya Kumar Jena Koraput80Gunupur (ST)Bhagirathi Gomango 81Bissam-cuttack (ST)Dambarudhar Ulaka 82Rayagada (ST)Ulaka Ramachandra 83Lakshmipur (ST)Akhili Saunta 84Pottangi (ST)Jayaram Pangi 85KoraputHarish Chandra Buxipatra 86Malkangiri (SC)Naka Kannaya 87Chitrakonda (ST)Prahalad Dora 88Kotpad (ST)Basudev Majhi 89JeyporeRaghunath Patnaik 90NowrangpurHabibulla Khan 91Kodinga (ST)Domburu Majhi 92Dabugam (ST)Shyamoghono Majhi 93Umarkote (ST)Rabisingh Majhi Kalahandi94NawaparaGhasiram Majhi 95KhariarKapil Narayan Tiwari 96Dharamgarh (SC)Gajanan Nayak 97KoksaraRasa Behari Behera 98JunagarhMaheshwar Barad 99Bhawanipatna (SC)Dayanidhi Nayak 100Narla (ST)Tejraj Majhi 101KesingaNagendranath Choudhury Phulabani102Balliguda (ST)Sadananda Konhor 103Udayagiri (ST)Ranjit Kumar Pradhan 104Phulbani (SC)Prahallad Behera 105BoudhNatabar Pradhan Balangir106Titilagarh (SC)Lalit Mohan Gandhi 107KantabanjiPrasanna Kumar Pal 108PatnagarhBibekananda Meher 109SaintalaSubash Chandra Bag 110LoisinghaRam Prasad Misra 111BolangirMuralidhar Guru 112Sonepur (SC)Debaraj Seth 113BinkaParakhita Karana 114BirmaharajpurSurendra Pradhan Dhenkanal115AthmallikBalakrushna Pattanayak 116AngulAdwait Prasad Singh 117Hindol (SC)Trinath Naik118DhenkanalNandini Satpathy 119GondiaHaldnar Misra 120KamakhyanagarPrasanna Kumar Pattnayak 121PallaharaDharanidhar Pradhan 122Talcher (SC)Brundaban Behera Sambalpur123PadampurBir Bikramaditya Singh Bariha 124MelchhamundaBirendra Kumar Sahoo 125BijepurNityananda Gartia 126Bhatli (SC)Bimbadhar Kuanr 127BargarhNabin Kumar Pradhan 128SambalpurJhasketan Sahoo 129BrajarajnagarUpendra Diksit 130JharsugudaSairindra Nayak 131Laikera (ST)Rameshwar Singh Naik 132Kuchinda (ST)Jagateswar Mirdha 133Rairakhol (SC)Basanta Kumar Mahananda 134DeogarhBhanu Ganga Tribhuban Deb Sundergarh135SundargarhKishore Chandra Patel 136Talsara (ST)Ignace Majhi 137Rajgangpur (ST)Brajamohan Kishan\ 138Biramitrapur (ST)Prem Chand Bhagat 139RourkelaBraja Kishore Mohanty 140Raghunathpali (ST)Rabi Dehuri 141Bonai (ST)Hemanta Kumar Singh Dandpat Keonjhar142Champua (ST)Saharai Oram 143PatnaMaheswar Majhi 144Keonjhar (ST)Kumar Majhi 145Telkoi (ST)Niladri Naik 146RamchandrapurKhirod Prasad Swain 147Anandapur (SC)Makar Sethi

Bypolls No Bypolls were held.

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