2021 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election explained

Election Name:	2021 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election
Type:	Parliamentary
Country:	India
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	2015 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election
Previous Year:	2015
Next Election:	2026 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election
Next Year:	2026
Seats For Election:	All 144 seats in Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Majority Seats:	73
Turnout:	64.64% (3.92%)^[1] ^[2]
Party1:	All India Trinamool Congress
Last Election1:	114 seats
Seats1:	134
Seat Change1:	20
Popular Vote1:	1,887,442
Percentage1:	72.13%^[3]
Party3:	Bharatiya Janata Party
Last Election3:	7 seats
Seats3:	3
Seat Change3:	4
Popular Vote3:	241,053
Percentage3:	9.21%
Party2:	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Alliance2:	Left Front (West Bengal)
Last Election2:	10 seats^[4]
Seats2:	1^[5]
Seat Change2:	9
Popular Vote2:	252,610
Percentage2:	9.65%
Party4:	Indian National Congress
Last Election4:	5 seats
Seats4:	2
Seat Change4:	3
Popular Vote4:	107,763
Percentage4:	4.12%
Party5:	Communist Party of India
Alliance5:	Left Front (West Bengal)
Last Election5:	2 seats
Seats5:	1
Seat Change5:	1
Popular Vote5:	26,763
Percentage5:	1.02%
Party6:	Independents
Last Election6:	3 seats
Seats6:	3
Popular Vote6:	63,501
Percentage6:	2.43%
Map Size:	300px
Mayor
Before Election:	Firhad Hakim
Before Party:	All India Trinamool Congress
After Election:	Firhad Hakim^[6]
After Party:	All India Trinamool Congress

The 2021 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election was held on 19 December 2021 to elect 144 members of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) which governs Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.^[7] A total of 40,48,357 electors were eligible to vote in the election.^{[8] [9]} The results were announced on 21 December.^[10]

The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) won the election by an overwhelming majority and captured 134 out of 144 wards. Firhad Hakim was elected as the mayor of Kolkata. In this election, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 3 seats, Left Front won 2 seats (CPI and CPI(M) won 1 seat each), Indian National Congress (INC) won 2 seats and independent candidates won 3 seats.

Schedule

Poll event	Schedule
Notification date^[11] ^[12] ^[13]	25 Nov, 2021
Last Date for filing nomination	1 Dec, 2021
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination^[14]	18 Dec, 2021
Date of poll^[15]	19 Dec, 2021
Date of counting of votes^[16]	21 Dec, 2021

Voter statistics

In this election, there were a total of 4,048,357 eligible electors. On 19 December 2,611,312 voters (64.50% of the total voters) exercised their franchise, of which 1,425,568 were male, 1,185,723 female and 21 registered voters were of the third gender.^[3]

Parties and alliances

Following is a list of political parties and alliances which contested in this election:^[3]

Party		Symbol	Alliance	No. of contesting candidates
	All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)		None	144
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)			6
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)			142
	Indian National Congress (INC)			121
	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)			1
	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))		Left Front	96
	Communist Party of India (CPI)			13
	All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)			11
	Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP)			9
	Independents (IND)		None
	Others			29

Candidates

A total of 950 candidates contested in this election. Among them 402 candidates were women.^[2] A list of the candidates (ward-wise) of the four main parties/alliance(s) is presented below:^[3]

Ward

AITC			Left Front			BJP			INC
	Name	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate
Borough No. 1
1	Ward 1		AITC	Kartick Chandra Manna		CPI(M)	Pallab Mukherjee		BJP	Asish Kumar Trivedi		INC	Safikul Khadim
2	Ward 2		AITC	Dr. Kakali Sen		CPI(M)	Debolina Sarkar		BJP	Rajendra Pr. Shaw		INC	Rathindra Nath Paul
3	Ward 3			Debika Chakraborty			Namita Das			Anima Singh			Suchitra Bose
4	Ward 4			Goutam Halder			Kanai Lal Podder			Sabyasachi Chakraborty			Biresh Chakraborty
5	Ward 5			Tarun Saha			Ramesh Pandey			Shreeram Yadav			Ram Kumar Jha
6	Ward 6			Suman Singh			Sagina Begum			Pramila Singh			Priti Shaw
7	Ward 7			Bapi Ghosh			Mahan Tapas Kundu (Choton)			Brajesh Jha			Moloy Mukherjee
8	Ward 8			Pooja Panja			Madhab Bose			Manoj Kumar			Tapan Seal
9	Ward 9			Mitali Saha			Dipika Bhattacharya			Rubi Banerjee			Pinki Shaw
Borough No.2
10	Ward 10			Subrata Banerjee			Karuna Sengupta			Ishwar Dayal Shaw			Pratap Sen
11	Ward 11			Atin Ghosh			Prodyot Nath			Manas Sen Chowdhury			Sumanta Sen
12	Ward 12			Minakshi Gangopadhyay			Pubali Deb			Tanusree Roy			Anima Ghosh
Borough No. 3
13	Ward 13			Anindya Kishore Routh			Birati Dutta			Kunal Bhattacharya			Tarun Kanti Seal
14	Ward 14			Amal Chakraborty(Bhola)			Swapan Ghosh			Debraj Saha			Palash Kumari Saha
Borough No. 2
15	Ward 15			Sukhla Bhore			Dipa Saha			Anita Das			Ruma Halder
16	Ward 16			Swapan Kumar Das			Sujit Deb			Sharad Kumar Singh			Rabi Saha
17	Ward 17			Mohan Kumar Gupta(Mona)			Moti Lal Ghosh			Paramita Banerjee			Moumita Kali
18	Ward 18			Sunanda Sarkar			Srabani Chakraborty			Anuradha Singh			Amrita Roy
19	Ward 19			Sikha Saha			Ruma Bhattacharya			Debashish Seal			Chandra Sekhar Roy
20	Ward 20			Vijay Upadhyay			Ajit Kumar Chowdhury		BJP	Indra Jhawar(Mukund)			Raghbendra Chaturvedi
Borough No. 4
21	Ward 21			Mira Hazra			Sujata Saha			Purnima Chakraborty	INC supports CPI(M)
22	Ward 22			Shyam Prokash Purohit	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Meena Devi Purohit			Nagesh Singh
23	Ward 23			Agarwal Sanwarmal			Dhirendra Kumar Pandey		BJP	Vijay Ojha			Uttam Kumar Sonkar
24	Ward 24			Ellora Saha			Manju Mohta		BJP	Kamini Tiwari			Sapana Gupta
25	Ward 25			Rajesh Kumar Sinha			Naresh Prasad Poddar		BJP	Sunil Harsh			Bikram Singh
26	Ward 26			Tarak Nath Chattopadhyay			Tapas Pramanik		BJP	Sashi Gond			Amar Singh
27	Ward 27			Minakshi Gupta			Papiya Ganguly		BJP	Manju Jaiswal			Tanmaya Mukherjee
28	Ward 28			Ayan Chakraborty			Ejaz Ahmed		BJP	Amiya Hazra			Shahina Javed
Borough No. 3
29	Ward 29			Iqbal Ahmed			Mohammed Sahid		BJP	Mohammed Mukhtar			Prakash Kumar Upadhyay
30	Ward 30			Papiya Ghosh(Biswas)			Saswati Dasgupta		BJP	Manjindar Kaur	INC supports CPI(M)
31	Ward 31			Paresh Paul		CPI(M)	Tarun Basu		BJP	Sree Narayan Chowdhury			Chand Basu Ansari
32	Ward 32			Kundu Santi Ranjan			Joydeep Bhattacharya		BJP	Rubi Sanyal	INC supports CPI(M)
33	Ward 33			Chinu Biswas		CPI(M)	Manisha Biswas		BJP	Rita Debnath(Mondal)	INC supports CPI(M)
34	Ward 34			Alokananda Das			Namita Bose		BJP	Malti Panja	INC supports CPI(M)
35	Ward 35			Ashutosh Das			Samir Chakraborty		BJP	Girish Kumar Shukla			Mohammed Wais
Borough No. 5
36	Ward 36			Sachin Kumar SIngh			Mousumi Ghosh		BJP	Ravi Kant Singh			Nandan Ghosh
37	Ward 37			Soma Chaudhuri			Mithu Das		BJP	Sheikha Mousumi			Afrin Begum
Borough No. 4
38	Ward 38			Bose Sadhana			Prosanta Dey(Gopal)		BJP	Ramesh Thakur Jaiswal			Punam Chowdhury
39	Ward 39			Mohammed Jasimuddin		AIFB	Subhankar Rai		BJP	Mohammed Jahangir			Ali Hussain
Borough No. 5
40	Ward 40			Suparna Dutta		RSP	Kaberi Bhattacharjee		BJP	Sefali Sharma			Asha Mahanti
41	Ward 41			Reita Chowdhury			Nehal Ahamed Qaisar		BJP	Rajeev Kumar Sinha			Jwala Pratap Singh
42	Ward 42			Mahesh Kumar Sharma			Pradip Kumar Singh		BJP	Sunita Jhawar	INC supports CPI(M)
43	Ward 43			Shagupta Parveen	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Chanda Kharwar			Shahnaaz Parveen
44	Ward 44			Rehana Khatoon			S.M. Shahid Quasimuddin		BJP	Mukesh Kumar Singh			Mohammed Zaid Anwar
45	Ward 45			Shakti Pratap Singh	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Kushal Pandey			Santosh Kumar Pathak
Borough No. 6
46	Ward 46			Priyanka Saha			Anusha Akbar		BJP	Pinky Sonkar			Wahida Khatoon
47	Ward 47			Bimal Singh	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Chitra Paul(Bosamia)			Mohammed Ali
Borough No. 5
48	Ward 48			Biswarup Dey			Anwasha Das		BJP	Chittaranjan Manna			Asis Chatterjee
49	Ward 49			Monalisa Banerjee			Upaneeta Pandey		BJP	Rajlakshmi Biswas			Aamna Khanam
50	Ward 50			Mousumi Dey	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Sajal Ghosh			Manash Sarkar
Borough No. 6
51	Ward 51			Indranil Kumar			Sunetra Ojha		BJP	Sanjib Gunin			Ravindra Singh
52	Ward 52			Sohini Mukherjee			Rukhsana Begum		BJP	Kamini Samtani			Aparna Saha
53	Ward 53			Indrani Saha Banerjee	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Gautam Dasgupta			Akbar Hossain
54	Ward 54			Amiruddin			Jahangir Mondal		BJP	Debashish Dutta			Yusuf Abdul Waheed
55	Ward 55			Sabita Rani Das			Chaitali Bhowmick Nair		BJP	Amrita Ghosh			Dorothy Dewan
Borough No. 7
56	Ward 56			Swapan Samaddar			Jayasri Debnandy		BJP	Tapan Samanta			Samir Alam
57	Ward 57			Jiban Saha			Dilip Poddar		BJP	Milan Dere			Afroz Alam
58	Ward 58			Sandipan Saha	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Chandan Das			Sadananda Show
59	Ward 59			Jolly Bose			Rama Kar Basu		BJP	Aishi Majhi			Fatema Anjum
Borough No. 6
60	Ward 60			Kaiser Jamil			Manzar Ahsan		BJP	Ramesh Kumar Singh			Nadim Mohammed
61	Ward 61			Manzar Iqbal	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Harinarayan Tiwari			Sajid Ismail
62	Ward 62			Sana Ahmed	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Sahina Khatoon			Tarannum Jahan
Borough No. 7
63	Ward 63			Susmita Bhattacharya Chatterjee			Mohammed Seraj Khan		BJP	Naveen Kumar Mishra			Francis Ganpat
64	Ward 64		AITC	Sammi Jahan Begum			Mohammed Azam Jawed		BJP	Dipankar Saha			Hossain Zahid
65	Ward 65		AITC	Nibedita Sharma			Anulekha Sinha		BJP	Kabery Sengupta Mohanty			Anisha Akhter
66	Ward 66			Ahmed Faiz Khan			Shaquib Akhtar		BJP	Abhishek Sen(Babla Daa)			Sayed Mohammed Ahsan
67	Ward 67			Bijan Lal Mukherjee			Dipu Das		BJP	Sandip Banerjee	INC supports CPI(M)
Borough No. 7
68	Ward 68			Sudarshana Mukherjee			Dorothy Majumder Ghoshal		BJP	Pinky Ghosh			Moumita Mukherjee
69	Ward 69			Dilip Bose			Gopal Hazra		BJP	Kaushal Prasad Mishra			Biswajit Ghosh
70	Ward 70			Ashim Kumar Bose(Babai)			Barun Das		BJP	Bhim Singh Verma			Devasuvra Majumder
Borough No. 9
71	Ward 71			Papiya Singh			Keka Mitra		BJP	Pratima Ghosh			Supriya Das
Borough No. 7
72	Ward 72			Sandip Ranjan Bakshi			Prokash Bhattacharya		BJP	Ruma Nandan			Prasenjit Sen
Borough No. 9
73	Ward 73			Kajari Banerjee			Madhumita Das		BJP	Indrajit Khatick			Prabir Kumar Paul
74	Ward 74			Debalina Biswas			Dipa Chakraborty		BJP	Paramita Dutta
75	Ward 75			Nezamuddin Shams			Faiyaz Ahmed Khan		BJP	Mahesh Ram			Mohammed Akil
76	Ward 76			Sasti Das			Shakil Akhter		BJP	Sajal Kar			Soumen Pal
77	Ward 77			Shamima Rehan Khan			Sajda Parveen		BJP	Gopa Banerjee			Sayyada Banoo
78	Ward 78			Soma Das			Jyoti Das		BJP	Bina Kanojia			Gunja Mallick
79	Ward 79			Ram Pyare Ram			Shyamal Kanti Mitra		BJP	Jitendra Trivedi			Aquib Gulzar
80	Ward 80			Mohammed Anwar Khan	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Ershad Ahmed Sain			Surendra Kumar Singh
Borough No. 10
81	Ward 81			Jui Biswas			Rinku Dey		BJP	Ditaya Kar			Anindita Paul(Taniya)
Borough No. 9
82	Ward 82			Firhad Hakim			Paramita Dasgupta		BJP	Pratap Sonkar	INC supports CPI
Borough No. 8
83	Ward 83			Probir Kumar Mukhopadhyay			Arka Ranjan Bhattacharya		BJP	Gouranga Sarkar		INC	Rajib Paul
84	Ward 84			Paromita Chatterjee			Bithika Nath		BJP	Tamasha Chatterjee			Ruma Mukherjee
85	Ward 85			Debasish Kumar(Deba)			Gobinda Naskar		BJP	Ruby Mukherjee			Joydeb Bhowmick
86	Ward 86			Saurav Basu (Bappa)	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Rajarshi Lahiri			Dwarka Kumar Ghosh
87	Ward 87			Manisha Bose			Dyutisree Dass Shom		BJP	Anushree Chattopadhyay			Koli Narayan Mukherjee
88	Ward 88			Mala Roy			Kartick Mondal		BJP	Samir Sil	INC supports CPI(M)
Borough No. 10
89	Ward 89			Mamamta Majumder			Salil Chaudhury		BJP	Santanu Bhattacharya(Bubai)			Kartik Das
Borough No. 8
90	Ward 90			Chatali Chattopadhyay			Promita Roy Chowdhury		BJP	Mowsumy Bhattacharya			Aditi Chatterjee
Borough No. 10
91	Ward 91			Baiswanor Chatterjee			Surajit Sen Gupta (Kunal)		BJP	Dilip Kumar Mitra			Samir Saha
92	Ward 92			Abhishek Mukherjee			Madhucchanda Deb		BJP	Suman Das			Manash Kumar Bhadra
93	Ward 93			Mousumi Das			Gopa Roychowdhury		BJP	Sumita Dasgupta			Sampa Ghosh
94	Ward 94			Sandip Nandi Majumder			Bula Rani Seal		BJP	Pradipta Arjun			Rahul Naskar
95	Ward 95			Tapan Dasgupta			Anwesha Bhowmick		BJP	Rajib Saha			Santanu Guhathakurta (Tarun)
96	Ward 96			Vasundhara Goswami			Dipali Goswami (Doli)		BJP	Sandipa Singha Roy			Sanchaita Sinha Roy
97	Ward 97			Debrabata Majumder			Susanta Pal		BJP	Soma Ghosh Dutta			Prahlad Chakraborty
98	Ward 98			Arup Chakraborty			Meintyunjoy Chakraborty(Pradip)		BJP	Chandan Kumar Saha			Swapan Bose
99	Ward 99			Mitali Banerjee			Shikha Mukherjee		BJP	Taniya Das			Mun Mun Das
100	Ward 100			Prosenjit Das		CPI(M)	Mira Ghosh		BJP	Sanjay Das			Sahajan Dewan
Borough No. 12
101	Ward 101			Bappaditya Dasgupta		CPI(M)	Atanu Chatterjee		BJP	Santosh Mitra			Amar Bhattacharjee
102	Ward 102			Sima Ghosh (Jaya)		CPI(M)	Bhaswati Gangopadhyay		BJP	Indra Gangopadhyay			Tapasi Karmakar
Borough No. 11
103	Ward 103			Sukumar Das		CPI(M)	Nandita Roy		BJP	Sandip Bagchi			Debajyoti Das
104	Ward 104			Tarakeswar Chakaraborty		RSP	Dhiraj Kumar Gangopadhyay		BJP	Swarupa Mukherjee			Prodip Mitra
Borough No. 12
105	Ward 105			Sushila Dutta		CPI(M)	Namita Dutta		BJP	Tamali Roy			Shrabanti Bhattacharjee
106	Ward 106			Arjit Das Thakur (Rana)		CPI(M)	Dipankar Mondal (Laltu)		BJP	Pavan Baidya			Biswanath Biswas (Babu)
						RSP	Aloke Chattacherjee
107	Ward 107			Lipika Manna		CPI(M)	Goutam Roy		BJP	Somnath Das	INC supports CPI(M)
108	Ward 108			Sushanta Kumar Ghosh		CPI(M)	Tapan Malik		BJP	Megnath Halder			Sanjoy Majumder
109	Ward 109			Ananya Banerjee		CPI(M)	Shikha Pujari		BJP	Beauty Roy Halder	INC supports CPI(M)
Borough No. 11
110	Ward 110			Swaraj Kumar Mondal		CPI(M)	Tanushree Mondal		BJP	Nitai Mondal	INC supports CPI(M)
111	Ward 111			Sandip Das		CPI(M)	Chayan Bhattacharya		BJP	Parijat Chanda	INC supports CPI(M)
112	Ward 112			Gopal Roy		AIFB	Subrata Kumar Dey		BJP	Debajyoti Mazumder			Narayan Biswas
113	Ward 113			Anita Kar Majumder Sil		CPI(M)	Ajanta Das		BJP	Rubi Das	INC supports CPI(M)
114	Ward 114			Biswajit Mandal		CPI(M)	Mohit Kumar Bhattacharya		BJP	Partha Pal			Subhas Chandra Bose
Borough No. 13
115	Ward 115			Ratna Sur		CPI(M)	Subhankar Bagchi (Biltu)		BJP	Tapas Dhara			Gurudas Pal
116	Ward 116			Krishna Singh		CPI(M)	Chitra Patit		BJP	Swapna banerjee			Sharmistha Saha
117	Ward 117			Amit Singh		CPI(M)	Sanjay Khan		BJP	Kalyani Dasgupta			Sanjit Dey
118	Ward 118			Tarak Singh		CPI(M)	Sujoy Adhikary (Bubai)		BJP	Dipankar Banik	INC supports CPI(M)
119	Ward 119			Kakali Bag	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Rakhi Chatterjee			Deepa Badge
120	Ward 120			Susanta Ghosh (Bua)		CPI(M)	Gautam Adhikary (Bubun)		BJP	Ujjwal Baral			Biswajit Das
Borough No. 14
121	Ward 121			Rupak Ganguly		CPI(M)	Ashis Mondal (Valtu)		BJP	Chandra Bhan Singh			Kaustav Bhattacharjee
Borough No. 13
122	Ward 122			Soma Chakraborty		CPI(M)	Manju Kar		BJP	Sangita Nath Dey			Manasi Das Naskar
Borough No. 16
123	Ward 123			Sudip Polley (Nani)		CPI(M)	Prosenjit Ghosh		BJP	Sarmistha Bhattacharjee	INC supports CPI(M)
124	Ward 124			Rajib Kumar Das		CPI(M)	Arijit Sinha		BJP	Sankar Sikder			Prabir Sarkar
125	Ward 125			Chhanda Sarkar		CPI(M)	Priya Roy		BJP	Dalia Chakroborty			Kajal Biswas
126	Ward 126			Ghanashree Bagh		CPI	Biman Guha Thakurta		BJP	Pradip Ray			Subhasish Kar
Borough No. 14
127	Ward 127			Malobika Baidya		CPI(M)	Rina Bhakta		BJP	Mallika Biswas	INC supports CPI(M)
128	Ward 128			Partha Sarkar		CPI(M)	Ratna Roy Majumder		BJP	Shirsendu Banerjee (Bappa)			Gitika Mridha
129	Ward 129			Sanhita Das		CPI(M)	Mousumi Chatterjee		BJP	Nabanita Bhattacharjee			Dolan Das
130	Ward 130			Avijit Mukherjee		CPI(M)	Partha Sarathi Sarkar		BJP	Subhasis Kar			Gosto Behari Jana
131	Ward 131			Ratna Chatterjee		CPI(M)	Ranjan Dasgupta		BJP	Rabin Roy			Subir Mondal
132	Ward 132			Sanchita Mitra		CPI(M)	Mita Ghosh		BJP	Sutapa Gupta			Piya Roy
Borough No. 15
133	Ward 133			Ranjit Shil		CPI(M)	Jayabrata Bera (Tinku)	Sadananda Prasad withdrew Nomination^[17] ^[18]					Mohammad Salim
134	Ward 134			Shams Iqbal		CPI(M)		Mumtaj Ali withdrew Nomination
135	Ward 135			Akhtari Nijami	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Archana Gupta			Shamshad Begum
136	Ward 136			Shamsuzzaman Ansari		CPI(M)	Subhasish Poddar		BJP	Anil Kumar Verma	INC supports CPI(M)
137	Ward 137			Rehmat Alam Anssari	Left Front supports INC				BJP	Rakesh Verma			Wasim Ansari
138	Ward 138			Farida Parvin		CPI(M)	Farhanaj Begum		BJP	Minu Das			Mamtaj Begum
139	Ward 139			Sheikh Mushtaque Ahamed (Bachchu)		CPI(M)	Abu Kayes Molla Mohammed		BJP	Mahejabeen Khatoon	INC supports CPI(M)
140	Ward 140			Abu Mohammed Tarik		CPI(M)	Sheikh Mohammed Zamir		BJP	Salauddin			Abdul Ali Jahangir
141	Ward 141			Sibnath Gayen		CPI	Sampad Roy		BJP	Dhali Tapas Kumar			Abhishek Baidya
Borough No. 16
142	Ward 142			Ragunath Patra	Left Front supported Independent candidate Goutam Kolay				BJP	Amar Das	INC supports Left Front
143	Ward 143			Christina Biswas		CPI(M)	Phulu Mondal		BJP	Gargee Viswanathan			Lata Saha
144	Ward 144			Shefali Pramanik		CPI(M)	Biplab Banerjee		BJP	Anindita Ghosh	INC supports CPI(M)

Results

The results were declared on 21 December 2021.

Results by Parties

134	3	2	1	1	3
AITC	BJP	INC	CPI(M)	CPI	IND

Alliance		Party		Seats					Popular Vote				Ref(s)
				Contested ^[19]	Won		Change ^[20] ^[21] ^[22]	Earned Second Position	Votes	%		Change (%)
					Party-wise	Alliance-wise				Party-wise	Alliance-wise ^[23] ^[24] ^[25]
None			AITC	144	134		20	10	18,87,442	72.13		21.47	^[26]
			BJP	142	3		4	48	2,41,053	9.21		6.76
	Left Front		CPI(M)	128	1	2	9	65	2,52,610	9.65	11.89	13.90
			CPI		1		1		26,763	1.02
			RSP		0		2		20,385	0.78
			AIFB		0		1		11,447	0.44
None			INC	121	2		3	16	1,07,763	4.12		2.47
			BSP	6	0			0	1,558	0.06
			NCP	1	0			0	3	0.00
			Independents		3			5	63,501	2.43		0.64
			Others	26	0			0	4,261	0.16
Total Polled Votes / Voter Turnout									26,16,786	64.64
Registered Voters									40,48,357	100.00

Results by Wards

The Ward-wise Results were announced by the West Bengal State Election Commission after the counting.^[19]

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Winner	Runner Up				Margin
Borough	Ward number	Party		Candidate		Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes
I	Ward 1		AITC	Kartick Chandra Manna	24,421		BJP	Asish Kumar Trivedi	2,752	21,669
	Ward 2		AITC	Dr. Kakali Sen	27,503		CPI(M)	Debolina Sarkar	3,168	24,335
	Ward 3		AITC	Debika Chakraborty	25,431		CPI(M)	Namita Das	3,417	22,014
	Ward 4		AITC	Goutam Haldar	21,003		CPI(M)	Kanai Lal Podder	2,945	18,058
	Ward 5		AITC	Tarun Saha	11,107		CPI(M)	Ramesh Pandey	1,033	10,074
	Ward 6		AITC	Suman Singh	16,890		BJP	Pramila Singh	4,142	12,748
	Ward 7		AITC	Bapi Ghosh	6,840		BJP	Brajesh Jha	1,681	5,159
	Ward 8		AITC	Pooja Panja	7,332		CPI(M)	Madhab Bose	1,241	6,091
	Ward 9		AITC	Mitali Saha	6,261		CPI(M)	Dipika Bhattacharya	1,235	5,026
II	Ward 10		AITC	Subrata Banerjee	6,786		CPI	Karuna Sengupta	4,109	2,677
	Ward 11		AITC	Atin Ghosh	11,313		BJP	Manas Sen Chowdhury	887	10,426
	Ward 12		AITC	Dr. Minakshi Gangopadhyay	7,306		BJP	Tanusree Roy	1,859	5,447
	Ward 15		AITC	Sukhla Bhore	8,879		BJP	Anita Das	1,408	7,471
	Ward 16		AITC	Swapan Kumar Das	7,922		BJP	Sharad Kumar Singh	1,114	6,808
	Ward 17		AITC	Mohan Kumar Gupta (Mona)	11,097		CPI(M)	Moti Lal Ghosh	832	10,265
	Ward 18		AITC	Sunanda Sarkar	11,870		CPI(M)	Srabani Chakraborty	726	11,144
	Ward 19		AITC	Sikha Saha	8,792		CPI(M)	Ruma Bhattacharya	1,055	7,737
	Ward 20		AITC	Vijay Upadhyay	10,239		CPI(M)	Ajit Kumar Choudhury	722	9,517
III	Ward 13		AITC	Anindya Kishor Routh	18,665		CPI(M)	Birati Dutta	1,323	17,342
	Ward 14		AITC	Amal Chakraborty (Bhola)	23,080		RSP	Swapan Ghosh	3,651	19,429
	Ward 29		AITC	Iqbal Ahmed	16,127		INC	Prakash Kumar Upadhyay	11,461	4,666
	Ward 30		AITC	Papiya Ghosh (Biswas)	11,315		CPI(M)	Saswati Dasgupta	1,853	9,462
	Ward 31		AITC	Paresh Paul	22,619		BJP	Sree Narayan Chowdhury	2,110	20,509
	Ward 32		AITC	Santi Ranjan Kundu	26,198		CPI(M)	Joydeep Bhattacharya	1,652	24,546
	Ward 33		AITC	Chinu Biswas	22,701		CPI(M)	Manisha Biswas	2,219	20,482
	Ward 34		AITC	Alokananda Das	18,290		AIFB	Namita Bose	1,045	17,245
	Ward 35		AITC	Ashutosh Das	20,897		CPI(M)	Samir Chakraborty	953	19,944
IV	Ward 21		AITC	Mira Hazra	3,851		CPI(M)	Sujata Saha	3,804	47
	Ward 22		BJP	Meena Devi Purohit	3,800		AITC	Shyam Prokash Purohit	2,277	1,523
	Ward 23		BJP	Vijay Ojha	4,356		AITC	Sanwarmal Agarwal	1,143	3,213
	Ward 24		AITC	Ellora Saha	5,006		BJP	Kamini Tiwari	2,590	2,416
	Ward 25		AITC	Rajesh Kumar Sinha	6,966		BJP	Sunil Harsh	2,849	4,117
	Ward 26		AITC	Tarak Nath Chattopadhyay	8,320		CPI(M)	Tapas Pramanik	2,267	6,053
	Ward 27		AITC	Minakshi Gupta	8,745		BJP	Manju Jaiswal	1,657	7,088
	Ward 28		AITC	Ayan Chakraborty	13,157		INC	Shahina Javed	3,323	9,834
	Ward 38		AITC	Sadhana Bose	10,173		CPI(M)	Prosanta Dey (Gopal)	1,863	8,310
	Ward 39		AITC	Md. Jasimuddin	5,333		AIFB	Ali Hussain	3,808	1,525
V	Ward 36		AITC	Sachin Kumar Singh	12,536		INC	Nandan Ghosh	1,561	10,975
Ward 37		AITC	Soma Chaudhuri	10,495		CPI(M)	Mithu Das	1,224	9,271
Ward 40		AITC	Suparna Dutta	6,221		BJP	Sefali Sharma	928	5,293
Ward 41		AITC	Reita Chowdhury	3,118		BJP	Rajeev Kumar Sinha	2,006	1,112
Ward 42		AITC	Mahesh Kumar Sharma	3,353		BJP	Sunita Jhawar	2,625	728
Ward 43		IND	Ayesha Kaniz	4,822		AITC	Shagufta Parveen	2,711	2,111
Ward 44		AITC	Rehana Khatoon	7,351		INC	Mohammed Zaid Anwar	3,029	4,322
Ward 45		INC	Santosh Kumar Pathak	4,813		AITC	Shakti Pratap Singh	1,936	2,877
Ward 48		AITC	Biswarup Dey	7,564		BJP	Chittaranjan Manna	814	6,750
Ward 49		AITC	Monalisa Banerjee	5,032		CPI(M)	Upaneeta Pandey	503	4,529
Ward 50		BJP	Sajal Ghosh	4,552		AITC	Mousumi Dey	3,499	1,053
VI	Ward 46		AITC	Priyanka Saha	6,225		BJP	Pinky Sonkar	949	5,276
	Ward 47		AITC	Bimal Singh	5,053		BJP	Chitra Paul (Bosamia)	1,938	3,115
	Ward 51		AITC	Indranil Kumar	3,721		INC	Ravindra Singh	1,840	1,881
	Ward 52		AITC	Sohini Mukherjee	6,693		BJP	Kamini Samtani	2,315	4,378
	Ward 53		AITC	Indrani Saha Banerjee	8,384		BJP	Gautam Dasgupta	2,675	5,709
	Ward 54		AITC	Amiruddin	27,111		CPI(M)	Jahangir Mondal	1,109	26,002
	Ward 55		AITC	Sabita Rani Das	13,562		BJP	Amrita Ghosh	2,347	11,215
	Ward 60		AITC	Kaiser Jamil	19,206		INC	Nadim Md.	8,226	10,980
	Ward 61		AITC	Manzar Iqbal	19,739		INC	Sajid Ismail	962	18,777
	Ward 62		AITC	Sana Ahmed	20,254		INC	Tarannum Jahan	3,335	16,919
VII	Ward 56		AITC	Swapan Samaddar	18,828		INC	Samir Alam	3,341	15,487
	Ward 57		AITC	Jiban Saha	30,024		BJP	Milan Dere	1,186	28,838
	Ward 58		AITC	Sandipan Saha	46,697		BJP	Chandan Das	5,874	40,823
	Ward 59		AITC	Jolly Bose	34,216		INC	Fatema Anjum	2,829	31,387
	Ward 63		AITC	Susmita Bhattacharya Chatterjee	5,962		BJP	Naveen Kumar Mishra	2,219	3,743
	Ward 64		AITC	Sammi Jahan Begum	19,015		INC	Hossain Zahid	730	18,285
	Ward 65		AITC	Nibedita Sharma	28,428		RSP	Anulekha Sinha	5,758	22,670
	Ward 66		AITC	Ahmed Faiz Khan	66,138		CPI(M)	Shaquib Akhtar	4,093	62,045
	Ward 67		AITC	Bijan Lal Mukherjee	20,353		CPI(M)	Dipu Das	10,063	10,290
VIII	Ward 68		AITC	Sudarshana Mukherjee	4,337		IND	Tanima Chatterjee	2,505	1,832
	Ward 69		AITC	Dilip Bose	13,127		BJP	Kaushal Prasad Mishra	3,314	9,813
	Ward 70		AITC	Ashim Kumar Bose (Babai)	6,164		BJP	Bhim Singh Verma	2,136	4,028
	Ward 72		AITC	Sandip Ranjan Bakshi	4,683		IND	Satchidananda Banerjee (Manua)	2,948	1,735
	Ward 83		AITC	Probir Kumar Mukhopadhyay	8,725		CPI(M)	Arka Ranjan Bhattacharya	1,373	7,352
	Ward 84		AITC	Paromita Chatterjee	5,421		BJP	Tamasha Chatterjee	2,142	3,279
	Ward 85		AITC	Debasish Kumar (Deba)	11,416		BJP	Ruby Mukherjee	1,452	9,964
	Ward 86		AITC	Saurav Basu (Bappa)	5,383		IND	Gaurav Biswas	1,500	3,883
	Ward 87		AITC	Manisha Bose	3,017		BJP	Anusree Chattopadhyay	1,196	1,821
	Ward 88		AITC	Mala Roy	9,461		CPI(M)	Kartick Mondal	2,104	7,357
	Ward 90		AITC	Chaitali Chattopadhyay	6,796		BJP	Mowsumy Bhattacharya	1,195	5,601
IX	Ward 71		AITC	Papiya Singh	10,815		BJP	Pratima Ghosh	1,954	8,861
	Ward 73		AITC	Kajari Banerjee	9,067		BJP	Indrajit Khatick	2,574	6,493
	Ward 74		AITC	Debalina Biswas	10,359		BJP	Paramita Dutta	2,978	7,381
	Ward 75		AITC	Nezamuddin Shams	10,442		CPI(M)	Faiyaz Ahmad Khan	3,503	6,939
	Ward 76		AITC	Sasti Das	7,544		INC	Soumen Paul	1,744	5,800
	Ward 77		AITC	Shamima Rehan Khan	18,666		AIFB	Sajda Parveen	2,589	16,077
	Ward 78		AITC	Soma Das	23,322		BJP	Bina Kanojia	2,571	20,751
	Ward 79		AITC	Ram Pyare Ram	11,641		BJP	Jitendra Trivedi	4,513	7,128
	Ward 80		AITC	Md. Anwar Khan	9,336		BJP	Ershad Ahmed Sain	3,512	5,824
	Ward 82		AITC	Firhad Hakim	17,609		BJP	Pratap Sonkar	2,693	14,916
X	Ward 81		AITC	Jui Biswas	18,029		INC	Anindita Paul (Taniya Paul)	2,795	15,234
	Ward 89		AITC	Mamata Majumdar	7,029		CPI	Dr. Salil Chaudhury	2,441	4,588
	Ward 91		AITC	Baiswanor Chatterjee	13,444		CPI(M)	Surajit Sen Gupta (Kunal)	6,151	7,293
	Ward 92		CPI	Madhuchhanda Deb	10,250		AITC	Abhishek Mukherjee	6,828	3,422
	Ward 93		AITC	Mousumi Das	14,782		BJP	Sumita Dasgupta	3,550	11,232
	Ward 94		AITC	Sandip Nandi Majumdar	10,562		RSP	Bula Rani Seal	1,550	9,012
	Ward 95		AITC	Tapan Dasgupta	12,104		CPI(M)	Anwesha Bhowmick	3,528	8,576
	Ward 96		AITC	Vasundhara Goswami	10,526		CPI(M)	Dipali Goswami (Doli)	4,639	5,887
	Ward 97		AITC	Debabrata Majumdar	12,937		CPI(M)	Susanta Pal	2,979	9,958
	Ward 98		AITC	Arup Chakraborty	8,734		CPI(M)	Mritunjoy Chakraborty (Pradip)	8,440	294
	Ward 99		AITC	Mitali Banerjee	9,387		RSP	Shikha Mukherjee	4,927	4,460
	Ward 100		AITC	Prosenjit Das	12,413		CPI(M)	Mira Ghosh	4,053	8,360
XI	Ward 103		CPI(M)	Nandita Roy	5,862		AITC	Sukumar Das	5,770	92
	Ward 104		AITC	Tarakeswar Chakraborty	13,053		RSP	Dhiraj Kumar Gangopadhyay	2,111	10,942
	Ward 110		AITC	Swaraj Kumar Mondal	10,833		CPI(M)	Tanushree Mondal	3,065	7,768
	Ward 111		AITC	Sandip Das	10,182		CPI(M)	Chayan Bhattacharya	9,601	581
	Ward 112		AITC	Gopal Roy	14,776		BJP	Dr. Debojyoti Mazumder	2,662	12,114
	Ward 113		AITC	Anita Kar Majumdar Sil	16,918		CPI(M)	Ajanta Das	3,001	13,917
	Ward 114		AITC	Biswajit Mandal	16,721		CPI(M)	Mohit Kumar Bhattacharya	5,971	10,750
XII	Ward 101		AITC	Bappaditya Dasgupta	23,407		CPI(M)	Atanu Chatterjee	3,968	19,439
	Ward 102		AITC	Sima Ghosh (Jaya)	9,825		CPI(M)	Bhaswati Gangopadhyay	3,718	6,107
	Ward 105		AITC	Sushila Mondal	9,791		CPI(M)	Namita Dutta	2,345	7,446
	Ward 106		AITC	Arijit Das Thakur (Rana)	14,877		CPI(M)	Dipankar Mondal	4,734	10,143
	Ward 107		AITC	Lipika Manna	16,092		CPI(M)	Goutam Roy	5,064	11,028
	Ward 108		AITC	Sushanta Kumar Ghosh	21,693		BJP	Meghnath Halder	5,087	16,606
	Ward 109		AITC	Ananya Banerjee	40,458		CPI(M)	Shikha Pujari	2,835	37,623
XIII	Ward 115		AITC	Ratna Sur	10,809		IND	Rajat Sekhar	3,409	7,400
	Ward 116		AITC	Krishna Singh	11,561		BJP	Swapna Banerjee	3,526	8,035
	Ward 117		AITC	Amit Singh	9,329		BJP	Kalyani Dasgupta	1,898	7,431
	Ward 118		AITC	Tarak Singh	10,275		BJP	Dipankar Banik	2,116	8,159
	Ward 119		AITC	Kakali Bag	6,679		BJP	Rakhi Chatterjee	1,825	4,854
	Ward 120		AITC	Susanta Ghosh (Bua)	7,670		CPI(M)	Gautam Adhikary (Bubun)	1,723	5,947
	Ward 122		AITC	Soma Chakraborty	18,566		CPI(M)	Manju Kar	7,268	11,298
XIV	Ward 121		AITC	Rupak Ganguly	10,484		CPI(M)	Ashis Mondal (Valtu)	4,720	5,764
	Ward 127		AITC	Malobika Baidya	14,096		CPI(M)	Rina Bhakta	13,182	914
	Ward 128		AITC	Partha Sarkar	10,117		CPI(M)	Ratna Roy Majumder	9,098	1,019
	Ward 129		AITC	Sanhita Das	15,970		CPI(M)	Mousumi Chatterjee	7,193	8,777
	Ward 130		AITC	Avijit Mukherjee	9,253		CPI(M)	Partha Sarathi Sarkar	2,037	7,216
	Ward 131		AITC	Ratna Chatterjee	13,207		CPI(M)	Ranjan Dasgupta	3,000	10,207
	Ward 132		AITC	Sanchita Mitra	9,085		CPI(M)	Mita Ghosh	2,835	6,250
XV	Ward 133		AITC	Ranajit Shil	12,108		INC	Mohammad Salim	1,136	10,972
	Ward 134		AITC	Shams Iqbal	24,708		IND	Qaisar Khan	418	24,290
	Ward 135			Rubina Naaz	10,025		AITC	Akhtari Nijami	9,665	360
	Ward 136		AITC	Shamsuzzaman Ansari	10,761		BJP	Anil Kumar Verma	1,054	9,707
	Ward 137		INC	Wasim Ansari	6,670		AITC	Rehmat Alam Anssari	5,296	1,374
	Ward 138		AITC	Farida Parvin	15,619		INC	Mamtaj Begam	2,698	12,921
	Ward 139		AITC	Sk. Mushtaque Ahamed (Bachchu)	23,890		CPI(M)	Abu Kayes Molla Md.	3,338	20,552
	Ward 140		AITC	Abu Mohammed Tarik	11,186		INC	Abdul Ali Jahangir	3,987	7,199
	Ward 141		IND	Purbasa Naskar	11,844		AITC	Sibnath Gayen	11,335	509
XVI	Ward 123		AITC	Sudip Polley (Nani)	13,461		CPI(M)	Prosenjit Ghosh	4,891	8,570
	Ward 124		AITC	Rajib Kumar Das	13,887		BJP	Sankar Sikder	4,653	9,234
	Ward 125		AITC	Chhanda Sarkar	20,993		CPI(M)	Priya Roy	4,474	16,519
	Ward 126		AITC	Ghanasree Bagh	14,160		CPI	Biman Guha Thakurta	3,560	10,600
	Ward 142		AITC	Raghunath Patra	15,959		BJP	Amar Das	961	14,998
	Ward 143		AITC	Christina Biswas	14,317		BJP	Gargee Viswanathan	2,465	11,852
	Ward 144		AITC	Shefali Pramanik	5,214		CPI(M)	Biplab Banerjee	1,461	3,753

See also

• Kolkata Municipal Corporation
• 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
• 2018 West Bengal Panchayat elections
• 2019 Indian general election in West Bengal
• 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
• 2024 Indian general election in West Bengal
• 2021 elections in India

References

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5. Web site: 22 December 2021. Kolkata Municipal Corporation Election 2021 Results: TMC registers landslide victory, wins 134 of 144 wards. The Indian Express. 22 December 2021.
6. Web site: 23 December 2021. Bengal minister Firhad Hakim is new Kolkata mayor. Hindustan Times. 23 December 2021.
7. News: 25 November 2021. Kolkata Municipal Corporation election to be conducted on December 19. en-IN. The Hindu. 18 December 2021. 0971-751X.
8. Web site: 19 December 2021. KMC Polls: Violence reported; 63.37% voter turnout recorded till 5 PM. Business Standard. 21 December 2021.
9. Web site: 19 December 2021. KMC Polls: 63.63% Voter Turnout Recorded Amid Sporadic Violence; 195 People Held, 453 Complaints Filed. News18. 21 December 2021.
10. Web site: 21 December 2021. KMC Poll Result 2021: এক লাফে ৭২ পার, আট মাসে ভোটের হাইজাম্প তৃণমূলের, আশপাশে কেউ নেই. Anandabazar Patrika Online. bn. 30 December 2021.
11. Web site: 25 November 2021. Kolkata Municipal Corporation election to be conducted on December 19. The Hindu. 11 December 2021.
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17. Web site: 5 December 2021. 8 candidates, including 2 from BJP, withdraw their nomination. Millennium Post. 25 December 2021.
18. Web site: 8 December 2021. Muslim BJP candidate withdraws nomination for Kolkata civic polls after threats. The Week. 25 December 2021.
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22. Web site: 21 December 2021. TMC Sweeps KMC Polls But Left's Growing Vote Share May Signal Return Of Old Foe. Outlook India. 22 December 2021.
23. Web site: 21 December 2021. Landslide win for TMC in Kolkata civic polls, Left's vote share more than BJP. The Indian Express. 21 December 2021.
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