2022 Siliguri Municipal Corporation election
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Municipal elections were held in Siliguri on 12 February 2022 to elect members of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation.
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All 47 seats in Siliguri Municipal Corporation 24 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The All India Trinamool Congress party won the election defeating CPI(M) led Left Front with an overwhelming majority.[1] The sitting mayor of Siliguri Ashok Bhattacharya lost his ward to TMC candidate Alam Khan by 482 votes. After the result, Goutam Deb became the new Mayor.[2]
Schedule
[edit]Poll event | Schedule |
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Notification date | 28 Dec, 2021 |
Last Date for filing nomination | 3 Jan, 2022 |
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination | 6 Jan, 2022 |
Date of poll | 12 Feb, 2022 |
Date of counting of votes | 14 Feb, 2022 |
Voter Statistics
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Parties and alliances
[edit]Following is a list of political parties and alliances which contested in this election:
Party | Symbol | Alliance | No. of contesting candidates | |
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All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) | ![]() |
Left Front | 3 | |
Communist Party of India (CPI) | ![]() |
2 | ||
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) | ![]() |
36 | ||
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) | ![]() |
2 | ||
All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) | ![]() |
None | 47 | |
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | ![]() |
46 | ||
Indian National Congress (INC) | ![]() |
34 | ||
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation CPI(ML)L | ![]() |
1 | ||
Independents (IND) | 30 |
Candidates
[edit]Ward | Reservation | Left Front | AITC | BJP | INC | |||||||||
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# | Name | SC/ST/Women | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | ||||
1 | Ward No. 1 | None | RSP | Biswajit Roy | AITC | Sanjay Pathak | BJP | Kanhaiya Kumar Pathak | INC | Maksudan Sahani | ||||
2 | Ward No. 2 | Women | CPI(M) | Snighda Hazra(Halder) | AITC | Gargi Chatterjee | BJP | Bani Paul | INC | Tanu Ghosh | ||||
3 | Ward No. 3 | None | RSP | Chhanda Goswami Sarkar | AITC | Ram Bhajan Mahato | BJP | Binod Kumar Gupta | INC | Roshan Kumar Jha | ||||
4 | Ward No. 4 | CPI(M) | Sourove Kanti Sarkar | AITC | Parimal Mitra | BJP | Vivekananda Singh | INC | Chabi Das | |||||
5 | Ward No. 5 | Women | AIFB | Rina Yadav | AITC | Saroj Goenka | BJP | Anita Mahato | INC | Shruti Yadav | ||||
6 | Ward No. 6 | None | CPI(M) | Ashok Narayan Bhattacharya | AITC | Alam Khan | BJP | Noor Jahan Ansari | INC | Md Shahanawaz Hussain | ||||
7 | Ward No. 7 | Left Front supports INC | AITC | Pintu Ghosh | BJP | Shakuntala Mishra | INC | Rajeev Kumar Mishra | ||||||
8 | Ward No. 8 | Women | CPI(M) | Sabita Mitruka | AITC | Khusboo Mittal | BJP | Shalini Dalmia | INC supports CPI(M) | |||||
9 | Ward No. 9 | None | AIFB | Mohan Lal Mandal | AITC | Pradip Kumar Goyel | BJP | Amit Jain | INC | Harendra Lohia | ||||
10 | Ward No. 10 | CPI(M) | Suraj Kundu | AITC | Kamal Agarwal | BJP | Prasenjit Paul | INC supports CPI(M) | ||||||
11 | Ward No. 11 | Women | Left Front supported Independent candidate Santosh Devi Singhal | AITC | Uma Goyal | BJP | Manjushree Paul | INC supports Left Front | ||||||
12 | Ward No. 12 | None | CPI(M) | Pradip Ghosh | AITC | Basudeb Ghosh | BJP | Nantu Paul | INC | Soubhik Sengupta | ||||
13 | Ward No. 13 | CPI | Raman Tuli | AITC | Manik Dey | BJP | Bhushan Jain | INC supports CPI | ||||||
14 | Ward No. 14 | Women | CPI(M) | Munmun Bhowmik | AITC | Srabani Dutta | BJP | Madhabi Mukherjee | INC | Shilpi Sarkar | ||||
15 | Ward No. 15 | None | CPI | Habul Ghosh | AITC | Ranjan Sarkar | BJP | Raju Saha | INC | Subin Bhowmick | ||||
16 | Ward No. 16 | Left Front supports INC | AITC | Sanjeeb Chakraborty | BJP | Shibendhu Dutta | INC | Sujoy Ghatak | ||||||
17 | Ward No. 17 | Women | CPI(M) | Joyita Mitra | AITC | Mili Seal Sinha | BJP | Shipra Mondal | INC | Ruma Nath | ||||
18 | Ward No. 18 | None | CPI(M) | Deepak Kumar Sahani | AITC | Sanjay Sharma | BJP | Debkumar Sengupta | INC supports CPI(M) | |||||
19 | Ward No. 19 | CPI(M) | Mousumi Hazra | AITC | Bimal Ghosh | BJP | Tridib Saha | INC supports CPI(M) | ||||||
20 | Ward No. 20 | Women | CPI(M) | Anjana Dey | AITC | Abhaya Bose | BJP | Pala Balo Majumder | INC | Shampa Bhattacharjee | ||||
21 | Ward No. 21 | None | Left Front supports INC | AITC | Kuntal Roy | BJP | Suman Sarkar | INC | Tapan Dutta | |||||
22 | Ward No. 22 | CPI(M) | Dipta Karmakar | AITC | Dhiman Bose | BJP | Shyama Shankar Rakshit | INC | Sujit Dutta | |||||
23 | Ward No. 23 | Women | CPI(M) | Ayantika Chakraborty | AITC | Lakshmi Paul | BJP | Sharmistha Dey Sarkar | INC | Ayantika Ghosh Guha | ||||
24 | Ward No. 24 | None | CPI(M) | Indrajit Chanda | AITC | Pratul Chakraborty | BJP | Sankar Ghosh | INC | Dipak Kar | ||||
25 | Ward No. 25 | AIFB | Dalia Ghosh | AITC | Jayanta Saha | BJP | Santosh Modak | INC | Shankar Choudhury | |||||
26 | Ward No. 26 | Women | CPI(M) | Binapani Dutta | AITC | Sikta Dey Basu Ray | BJP | Anindita Roy Das | INC | Ruchira Malakar | ||||
27 | Ward No. 27 | None | CPI(M) | Sudip Bhattacharjee | AITC | Prasanta Chakraborty | BJP | Ranvir Majumder | INC supports CPI(M) | |||||
28 | Ward No. 28 | SC Women | CPI(M) | Aparna Dalai | AITC | Samprita Das | BJP | Jyoti Prasad Bhagat | INC supports CPI(M) | |||||
29 | Ward No. 29 | None | CPI(M) | Saradindu Chakraborty | AITC | Susmita Bose Moitra | BJP | Prosenjit Saha | INC | Nandita Saha Bose | ||||
30 | Ward No. 30 | Women | CPI(M) | Manju Karmakar | AITC | Sathi Das | BJP | Rinku Dutta | INC supports CPI(M) | |||||
31 | Ward No. 31 | SC Women | CPI(M) | Bani Barman | AITC | Moumita Mondal | BJP | Rinku Bagchi | INC | Navaneeta Tirkey | ||||
32 | Ward No. 32 | None | CPI(M) | Bidhayak Chandra Das | AITC | Tapas Chatterjee | BJP | Kajal Das | INC supports CPI(M) | |||||
33 | Ward No. 33 | CPI(M) | Ashim Kumar Saha | AITC | Goutam Deb | BJP | Parimal Sutradhar | INC | Niranjan Acharjya | |||||
34 | Ward No. 34 | SC | CPI(M) | Golap Roy Das | AITC | Biman Chandra Tapadar | BJP | Ratan Das | INC | Swati Sarkar Bhattacharjee | ||||
35 | Ward No. 35 | Women | CPI(M) | Shefali Bhattacharjee | AITC | Sampa Nandi | BJP | Arpita Das | INC | Rita Chaudhury | ||||
36 | Ward No.36 | None | CPI(M) | Barun Talukdar | AITC | Ranjan Sil Sharma | BJP | Partha Baidya | INC supports CPI(M) | |||||
37 | Ward No. 37 | SC | CPI(M) | Nakul Chandra Sarkar | AITC | Alok Bhakta | BJP | Amrit Poddar | INC supports CPI(M) | |||||
38 | Ward No. 38 | None | CPI(M) | Tapas Das | AITC | Dulal Dutta | BJP | Nityananda Pal | INC supports CPI(M) | |||||
39 | Ward No. 39 | Women | CPI(M) | Priya Dey | AITC | Pinki Saha | BJP | Arundhati Jha | INC | Pritilata Roy | ||||
40 | Ward No. 40 | None | CPI(M) | Biplab Dutta | AITC | Rajesh Prasad Sah | BJP | Dilip Roy | INC | Manoj Agarwal | ||||
41 | Ward No. 41 | CPI(M) | Naresh Singh | AITC | Shivika Mittal | BJP | Julee Tamang | INC | Kamal Majumdar | |||||
42 | Ward No. 42 | ST | CPI(M) | Sunita Gheesing | AITC | Shobha Subba | BJP | Kersensia Kindo | INC | Chingzong Helena Lepcha | ||||
43 | Ward No. 43 | SC | CPI(M) | Surendra Sharma | AITC | Sukhdeo Mahato | BJP | Sachin Prasad | INC | Santosh Roy | ||||
44 | Ward No. 44 | CPI(M) | Mahua Bhattacharjee | AITC | Pritikana Biswas | BJP | Iti Acharjee | INC | Nabina Sarkar | |||||
45 | Ward No. 45 | Women | CPI(M) | Munshi Nurul Islam | AITC | Bedabrata Dutta | BJP | Dinesh Singh | INC | Bablu Mahato | ||||
46 | Ward No. 46 | None | CPI(M) | Paresh Chandra Sarkar | AITC | Dilip Barman | Didn't Field Candidate | INC | Shikha Roy | |||||
47 | Ward No. 47 | SC | CPI(M) | Mukul Sengupta | AITC | Amar Ananda Das | BJP | Nirmal Bagchi | INC | Sudhan Bhowmick |
Result
[edit]Party-wise Result
[edit]37 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
AITC | CPI(M) | INC | BJP |
Ward-wise Result
[edit]The Ward-wise Results were announced by the West Bengal State Election Commission after the counting.[3]
Ward number | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||
Ward No. 1 | AITC | Sanjay Pathak | 3,341 | Independent | Birandra Kapoor | 2,472 | 869 | ||
Ward No. 2 | AITC | Gargi Chatterjee | 3,613 | CPI(M) | Snigdha Hazra(Halder) | 2,557 | 1,056 | ||
Ward No. 3 | AITC | Rambhajan Mahato | 3,606 | BJP | Binod Kumar Gupta | 2,046 | 1,560 | ||
Ward No. 4 | BJP | Vivek Singh | 4,936 | AITC | Parimal Mitra | 4,867 | 69 | ||
Ward No. 5 | BJP | Anita Mahato | 2,551 | Independent | Rakhi Gupta | 2,315 | 236 | ||
Ward No. 6 | AITC | Alam Khan | 1,929 | CPI(M) | Ashok Bhattacharya | 1,447 | 482 | ||
Ward No. 7 | AITC | Pintu Ghosh | 3,206 | BJP | Shakuntala Mishra | 1,239 | 1,967 | ||
Ward No. 8 | BJP | Shalini Dalmia | 2,160 | AITC | Khushboo Mittal | 1,367 | 793 | ||
Ward No. 9 | BJP | Amit Jain | 2,168 | AITC | Pradip Kumar Goyel | 2,097 | 71 | ||
Ward No. 10 | AITC | Kamal Agarwal | 1363 | BJP | Prasenjit Paul | 1,042 | 321 | ||
Ward No. 11 | BJP | Manjushree Paul | 833 | AITC | Uma Goyal | 793 | 40 | ||
Ward No. 12 | AITC | Basudeb Ghosh | 1,056 | BJP | Nantu Paul | 791 | 265 | ||
Ward No. 13 | AITC | Manik Dey | 1,762 | BJP | Bhushan Jain | 892 | 870 | ||
Ward No. 14 | AITC | Srabani Dutta | 2,312 | BJP | Madhabi Mukherjee | 1,102 | 1,210 | ||
Ward No. 15 | AITC | Ranjan Sarkar | 2,612 | BJP | Raju Saha | 1,276 | 1,336 | ||
Ward No. 16 | INC | Sujoy Ghattak | 1,804 | AITC | Sanjeeb Chakroborty | 980 | 824 | ||
Ward No. 17 | AITC | Mili Sil Sinha | 1,850 | CPI(M) | Joyita Mitra(Jaya) | 531 | 1,319 | ||
Ward No. 18 | AITC | Sanjay Sharma | 1,862 | BJP | Deb Kumar Sengupta | 1,449 | 213 | ||
Ward No. 19 | CPI(M) | Mousumi Hazra | 1,208 | AITC | Bimal Ghosh | 757 | 451 | ||
Ward No. 20 | AITC | Abhaya Bose | 2,878 | CPI(M) | Anjana Dey | 1,247 | 1,631 | ||
Ward No. 21 | AITC | Kuntal Roy | 1,961 | INC | Tapan Dutta | 1,307 | 654 | ||
Ward No. 22 | CPI(M) | Dipta Karmakar | 3,776 | AITC | Dhiman Bose | 2,569 | 1,209 | ||
Ward No. 23 | AITC | Lakshmi Paul | 3,247 | CPI(M) | Sayantika Chakroborty (Mou) | 774 | 1,145 | ||
Ward No. 24 | AITC | Pratul Chakraborty | 2,102 | IND | Bikash Sarkar | 2,091 | 11 | ||
Ward No. 25 | AITC | Jayanta Saha | 2,629 | BJP | Santosh Modak | 1,367 | 1,269 | ||
Ward No. 26 | AITC | Sikta Dey Basu Ray | 810 | BJP | Anindita Roy Das | 629 | 181 | ||
Ward No. 27 | AITC | Prasanta Chakraborty | 2,225 | CPI(M) | Sudip Bhattacharjee | 1,216 | 1,009 | ||
Ward No. 28 | AITC | Samprita Das | 1,577 | CPI(M) | Aparna Dalai | 1,514 | 63 | ||
Ward No. 29 | CPI(M) | Sharadidu Chakraborty | 2,494 | AITC | Susmita Bose Moitra | 1,260 | 1,234 | ||
Ward No. 30 | AITC | Sathi Das | 2,915 | CPI(M) | Manju Karmakar | 1,056 | 1,859 | ||
Ward No. 31 | AITC | Moumita Mondal | 4,833 | BJP | Rinku Bagchi | 2,653 | 2,180 | ||
Ward No. 32 | AITC | Tapas Chatterjee | 3,516 | BJP | Kajal Das | 1,211 | 2,305 | ||
Ward No. 33 | AITC | Goutam Deb | 4,820 | IND | Bijan Sarkar | 1,384 | 3,436 | ||
Ward No. 34 | AITC | Biman Chandra Tapadar | 4,531 | CPI(M) | Golap Roy | 2,662 | 1,869 | ||
Ward No. 35 | AITC | Sampa Nandi | 4,632 | CPI(M) | Shefali Bhattacharjee | 2,732 | 1,900 | ||
Ward No. 36 | AITC | Ranjan Shil Sharma | 5,911 | BJP | Partha Baidya | 2,457 | 3,454 | ||
Ward No. 37 | AITC | Alak Bhakta | 4,325 | BJP | Amrit Poddar | 3,810 | 515 | ||
Ward No. 38 | AITC | Dulal Dutta | 5,072 | BJP | Nityananda Pal | 1,860 | 3,212 | ||
Ward No. 39 | AITC | Pinki Saha | 3,288 | IND | Rina Das | 1,726 | 1,562 | ||
Ward No. 40 | AITC | Rajesh Prasad Sah | 6,677 | BJP | Dilip Roy | 3,733 | 2,944 | ||
Ward No. 41 | AITC | Shivika Mittal | 3,115 | BJP | Julee Tamang | 2,785 | 330 | ||
Ward No. 42 | AITC | Shobha Subba | 3,537 | BJP | Kersensia Kindo | 3,370 | 167 | ||
Ward No. 43 | AITC | Sukhdeo Mahato | 3798 | BJP | Sachin Prasad | 3,103 | 695 | ||
Ward No. 44 | AITC | Pritikana Biswas | 4,473 | BJP | Iti Acharjee | 1,589 | 2,884 | ||
Ward No. 45 | CPI(M) | Munshi Nurul Islam | 2,036 | AITC | Bedabrata Dutta | 1,933 | 103 | ||
Ward No. 46 | AITC | Dilip Barman | 9,549 | CPI(M) | Paresh Chandra Sarkar | 3,983 | 5,566 | ||
Ward No. 47 | AITC | Amar Nanda Das | 2,309 | CPI(M) | Mukul Sengupta | 2,172 | 137 |
References
[edit]- ^ Bangla, TV9 (14 February 2022). "Siliguri Municipal Election Result 2022: বামেদের হঠিয়ে প্রথমবার শিলিগুড়িতে ফুটল 'ঘাসফুল', দেখুন বিস্তারিত ফলাফল". TV9 Bangla (in Bengali). Retrieved 14 December 2023.
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