2022 Siliguri Municipal Corporation election explained
Municipal elections were held in Siliguri on 12 February 2022 to elect members of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation.
Election Name: | 2022 Siliguri Municipal Corporation election |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Country: | India |
Ongoing: | No |
Previous Election: | 2015 Siliguri Municipal Corporation election |
Previous Year: | 2015 |
Next Election: | 2026 Siliguri Municipal Corporation election |
Next Year: | 2026 |
Seats For Election: | All 47 seats in Siliguri Municipal Corporation |
Majority Seats: | 24 |
Leader2: | Ashok Bhattacharya |
Party2: | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Alliance2: | Left Front (West Bengal) |
Last Election2: | 23 |
Seat Change2: | 19 |
Percentage2: | 14.41% |
Leader1: | Goutam Deb |
Party1: | All India Trinamool Congress |
Alliance1: | – |
Last Election1: | 17 |
Seat Change1: | 20 |
Percentage1: | 69.64% |
Party3: | Indian National Congress |
Alliance3: | United Progressive Alliance |
Last Election3: | 4 |
Seats3: | 1 |
Seat Change3: | 3 |
Percentage3: | 2.5% |
Party4: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Last Election4: | 2 seats |
Seats4: | 5 seats |
Seat Change4: | 3 |
Percentage4: | 9.01% |
Party5: | Independents |
Last Election5: | 1 seat |
Seats5: | 0 |
Seat Change5: | 1 |
Mayor |
Before Election: | Ashok Bhattacharya |
Before Party: | CPI(M) |
After Election: | Goutam Deb |
After Party: | AITC |
Seats1: | 37 |
Seats2: | 4 |
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
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 | |
Parties and alliances
Following is a list of political parties and alliances which contested in this election:
Candidates
Ward!colspan="1"Reservation | Left Front | AITC | BJP | INC |
| Name | SC/ST/Women | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate |
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1 | Ward No. 1 | None | | RSP | Biswajit Roy | | AITC | Sanjay Pathak | | BJP | Kanhaiya Kumar Pathak | | INC | Maksudan Sahani |
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2 | Ward No. 2 | Women | | CPI(M) | Snighda Hazra(Halder) | | AITC | Gargi Chatterjee | | BJP | Bani Paul | | INC | Tanu Ghosh |
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3 | Ward No. 3 | None | | RSP | Chhanda Goswami Sarkar | | | Ram Bhajan Mahato | | | Binod Kumar Gupta | | | Roshan Kumar Jha |
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4 | Ward No. 4 | | | Sourove Kanti Sarkar | | | Parimal Mitra | | | Vivekananda Singh | | | Chabi Das |
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5 | Ward No. 5 | Women | | | Rina Yadav | | | Saroj Goenka | | | Anita Mahato | | | Shruti Yadav |
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6 | Ward No. 6 | None | | | Ashok Narayan Bhattacharya | | | Alam Khan | | | Noor Jahan Ansari | | | Md Shahanawaz Hussain |
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7 | Ward No. 7 | Left Front supports INC | | | Pintu Ghosh | | | Shakuntala Mishra | | | Rajeev Kumar Mishra |
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8 | Ward No. 8 | Women | | | Sabita Mitruka | | | Khusboo Mittal | | | Shalini Dalmia | |
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9 | Ward No. 9 | None | | | Mohan Lal Mandal | | | Pradip Kumar Goyel | | | Amit Jain | | | Harendra Lohia |
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10 | Ward No. 10 | | | Suraj Kundu | | | Kamal Agarwal | | | Prasenjit Paul | INC supports CPI(M) |
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11 | Ward No. 11 | Women | Left Front supported Independent candidate Santosh Devi Singhal | | | Uma Goyal | | | Manjushree Paul | INC supports Left Front |
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12 | Ward No. 12 | None | | | Pradip Ghosh | | | Basudeb Ghosh | | | Nantu Paul | | | Soubhik Sengupta |
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13 | Ward No. 13 | | | Raman Tuli | | | Manik Dey | | | Bhushan Jain | INC supports CPI |
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14 | Ward No. 14 | Women | | | Munmun Bhowmik | | | Srabani Dutta | | | Madhabi Mukherjee | | | Shilpi Sarkar |
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15 | Ward No. 15 | None | | CPI | Habul Ghosh | | | Ranjan Sarkar | | | Raju Saha | | | Subin Bhowmick |
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16 | Ward No. 16 | Left Front supports INC | | | Sanjeeb Chakraborty | | | Shibendhu Dutta | | | Sujoy Ghatak |
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17 | Ward No. 17 | Women | | CPI(M) | Joyita Mitra | | | Mili Seal Sinha | | | Shipra Mondal | | | Ruma Nath |
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18 | Ward No. 18 | None | | CPI(M) | Deepak Kumar Sahani | | | Sanjay Sharma | | | Debkumar Sengupta | INC supports CPI(M) |
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19 | Ward No. 19 | | | Mousumi Hazra | | | Bimal Ghosh | | | Tridib Saha | INC supports CPI(M) |
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20 | Ward No. 20 | Women | | | Anjana Dey | | | Abhaya Bose | | BJP | Pala Balo Majumder | | | Shampa Bhattacharjee |
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21 | Ward No. 21 | None | Left Front supports INC | | | Kuntal Roy | | | Suman Sarkar | | | Tapan Dutta |
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22 | Ward No. 22 | | | Dipta Karmakar | | | Dhiman Bose | | BJP | Shyama Shankar Rakshit | | | Sujit Dutta |
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23 | Ward No. 23 | Women | | | Ayantika Chakraborty | | | Lakshmi Paul | | BJP | Sharmistha Dey Sarkar | | | Ayantika Ghosh Guha |
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24 | Ward No. 24 | None | | | Indrajit Chanda | | | Pratul Chakraborty | | BJP | Sankar Ghosh | | | Dipak Kar |
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25 | Ward No. 25 | | | Dalia Ghosh | | | Jayanta Saha | | BJP | Santosh Modak | | | Shankar Choudhury |
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26 | Ward No. 26 | Women | | | Binapani Dutta | | | Sikta Dey Basu Ray | | BJP | Anindita Roy Das | | | Ruchira Malakar |
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27 | Ward No. 27 | None | | | Sudip Bhattacharjee | | | Prasanta Chakraborty | | BJP | Ranvir Majumder | INC supports CPI(M) |
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28 | Ward No. 28 | SC Women | | | Aparna Dalai | | | Samprita Das | | BJP | Jyoti Prasad Bhagat | INC supports CPI(M) |
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29 | Ward No. 29 | None | | | Saradindu Chakraborty | | | Susmita Bose Moitra | | BJP | Prosenjit Saha | | | Nandita Saha Bose |
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30 | Ward No. 30 | Women | | | Manju Karmakar | | | Sathi Das | | BJP | Rinku Dutta | INC supports CPI(M) |
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31 | Ward No. 31 | SC Women | | CPI(M) | Bani Barman | | | Moumita Mondal | | BJP | Rinku Bagchi | | | Navaneeta Tirkey |
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32 | Ward No. 32 | None | | CPI(M) | Bidhayak Chandra Das | | | Tapas Chatterjee | | BJP | Kajal Das | INC supports CPI(M) |
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33 | Ward No. 33 | | CPI(M) | Ashim Kumar Saha | | | Goutam Deb | | BJP | Parimal Sutradhar | | | Niranjan Acharjya |
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34 | Ward No. 34 | SC | | | Golap Roy Das | | | Biman Chandra Tapadar | | BJP | Ratan Das | | | Swati Sarkar Bhattacharjee |
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35 | Ward No. 35 | Women | | | Shefali Bhattacharjee | | | Sampa Nandi | | BJP | Arpita Das | | | Rita Chaudhury |
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36 | Ward No.36 | None | | | Barun Talukdar | | | Ranjan Sil Sharma | | BJP | Partha Baidya | INC supports CPI(M) |
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37 | Ward No. 37 | SC | | | Nakul Chandra Sarkar | | | Alok Bhakta | | BJP | Amrit Poddar | INC supports CPI(M) |
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38 | Ward No. 38 | None | | | Tapas Das | | AITC | Dulal Dutta | | BJP | Nityananda Pal | INC supports CPI(M) |
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39 | Ward No. 39 | Women | | | Priya Dey | | | Pinki Saha | | BJP | Arundhati Jha | | | Pritilata Roy |
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40 | Ward No. 40 | None | | | Biplab Dutta | | | Rajesh Prasad Sah | | BJP | Dilip Roy | | | Manoj Agarwal |
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41 | Ward No. 41 | | | Naresh Singh | | | Shivika Mittal | | BJP | Julee Tamang | | | Kamal Majumdar |
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42 | Ward No. 42 | ST | | | Sunita Gheesing | | | Shobha Subba | | BJP | Kersensia Kindo | | | Chingzong Helena Lepcha |
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43 | Ward No. 43 | SC | | | Surendra Sharma | | | Sukhdeo Mahato | | BJP | Sachin Prasad | | | Santosh Roy |
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44 | Ward No. 44 | | | Mahua Bhattacharjee | | | Pritikana Biswas | | BJP | Iti Acharjee | | | Nabina Sarkar |
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45 | Ward No. 45 | Women | | | Munshi Nurul Islam | | | Bedabrata Dutta | | BJP | Dinesh Singh | | | Bablu Mahato |
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46 | Ward No. 46 | None | | | Paresh Chandra Sarkar | | | Dilip Barman | Didn't Field Candidate | | | Shikha Roy |
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47 | Ward No. 47 | SC | | | Mukul Sengupta | | | Amar Ananda Das | | BJP | Nirmal Bagchi | | | Sudhan Bhowmick |
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Result
Party-wise Result
Ward-wise Result
The Ward-wise Results were announced by the West Bengal State Election Commission after the counting.[3]
Ward number! colspan="4" Winner | Runner Up | Margin |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Candidate | Votes |
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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 |
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Notes and References
- Web site: Bangla . TV9 . 2022-02-14 . Siliguri Municipal Election Result 2022: বামেদের হঠিয়ে প্রথমবার শিলিগুড়িতে ফুটল 'ঘাসফুল', দেখুন বিস্তারিত ফলাফল . 2023-12-14 . TV9 Bangla . bn.
- Web site: Gautam Deb to take oath as mayor on Tuesday . 2023-12-14 . www.telegraphindia.com . en.
- Web site: Home West Bengal State Election Commission. 2022-02-15. portal.wbme.org.