Elections to the fifith Odisha Legislative Assembly were held in 1971.^[1]

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1971 Odisha Legislative Assembly election

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All 140 seats in the Odisha Legislative Assembly 71 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Nandini Satpathy Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo Biju Patnaik Party INC SWA Utkal Congress Leader's seat Not contested Bolangir Rajanagar (By-elections) Seats won 51 36 33 Seat change 20 13 33 Popular vote 12,40,668 7,67,815 12,23,014 Percentage 28.18 17.44 23,99
Chief Minister before election Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo Swatantra Party Chief Minister Bishwanath Das Independent

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The elections were held for 140 seats. A total of 835 candidates contested for these 140 seats.

Three national parties, Communist Party of India, Indian National Congress and Swatantra Party along with the state party Utkal Congress took part in the assembly election. Congress party emerged again as the winner by winning 40% of the seats with a vote share of 28.74%. Harekrushna Mahatab again become the Chief Minister of the state.

The United Front a coalition of Swatantra Party who won 36 Assembly seats and the new regional party Utkal Congress who won 33 Assembly seats formed the government under the leadership of Independent candidate Bishwanath Das.^[2]

Das resigned on June 14, 1972, due to defection of a large number of members from the ruling coalition and on same day Nandini Satpathy of the Indian National Congress formed the government and continued till March 1973. Nandini Satpathy ousted due in-fighting of the members after which there was imposition of President's rule in the state.^[3][4]

• 1971 elections in India
• 1967 Odisha Legislative Assembly election
• 1974 Odisha Legislative Assembly election