2025 Chhattisgarh local elections

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

2025 Chhattisgarh local bodies elections
India
← 2020
2030 →
173 municipalities in Chhattisgarh
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
BJP Kiran Singh Deo 56 126 +83
INC Deepak Baij 31.25 30 −33
BSP Hemant Poyam 3.36 01 New
AAP Komal Hopendi 1.06 01 New
JCC Amit Jogi 0.4 0 −21
Independents 7.73 15 +4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

2025 Chhattisgarh local bodies elections were held on 11 February 2025 to elect members of local bodies in Chhattisgarh.[2] The counting of votes for 10 Municipal Corporation, 49 Nagar Palikas, 114 Nagar Panchayats were declared on 15th February 2025.

In the results of the municipal elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party delivered a strong performance, securing landslide victory in 126 out of 173 local bodies, while the Indian National Congress had to settle for just 30. Independents led in 15 bodies, while the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Aam Aadmi Party won one each. The Janta Congress Chhattisgarh failed to make an impact. In all 10 municipal corporations, including the state capital Raipur, BJP's mayoral candidates emerged victorious. Notably, for the first time in approximately 111 years, the BJP won in Kanker Nagar Panchayat, defeating the Congress.[3][4][5][6]

Election schedule

[edit | edit source]
Poll Event Schedule
Notification Date 17 January 2025
Last Date for filing nomination 28 January 2025
Scrutiny of nomination 29 January 2025
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination 31 January 2025
Allotment of Symbols 31 January 2025
Date of Poll 11 February 2025
Date of Counting of Votes 15 February 2025

Voter turnout

[edit | edit source]
District Turnout (%)
Raipur 51.37 (lowest)
Bilaspur
Jashpur 75.58
Mungeli 72.53
Janjgir-Champa 77.58
Sakti 81.44
Kawardha 64.04
Raigarh 81.44
Sarangarh-Bilaigarh 78.52
Surajpur 66.15
Balrampur 79.85
Surguja 64.85
Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi 71.41
Mahasamund 70.48
Dhamtari 76.10
Kanker 76.31
Kabirdham 77.44
Bastar 70.43
Durg 67.96
Narayanpur 70.71
Balod 75.34
Kondagaon 81.13
Rajnandgaon 75.82
Dantewada 72.52
Koriya 84.99 (highest)
Khairagarh 83.50
Sukma 66.97
Bijapur 58.71
Korba 74.10
Total 72.44

Parties and Alliance

[edit | edit source]
Alliance/Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Contested
Bharatiya Janata Party Kiran Singh Deo 173
Indian National Congress Deepak Baij 173
Bahujan Samaj Party Hemant Poyam 173

Candidates

[edit | edit source]

Mayoral Election

[edit | edit source]
  • On 26 January 2025, BJP released list of mayoral candidates.[7]
  • On 27 January 2025, INC released list of mayoral candidates.[8]
No. Municipal Corporation District BJP candidate INC candidate
1 Ambikapur Municipal Corporation Sarguja Manjusha Bhagat Ajay Tirkey
2 Durg Municipal Corporation Durg Alka Baghmar Premlata Sahu
3 Bilaspur Municipal Corporation Bilaspur Pooja Vidhani Pramod Nayak
4 Raipur Municipal Corporation Raipur Meenal Choubey Deepti Dubey
5 Chirmiri Municipal Corporation Koriya Ram Naresh Rai Vinay Jaiswal
6 Dhamtari Municipal Corporation Dhamtari Jagadish Ramu Mehra —[9][a]
7 Jagdalpur Municipal Corporation Bastar Sanjay Pandey Malkeet Singh Gaidu
8 Rajnandgaon Municipal Corporation Rajnandgaon Madhusudan Yadav Nikhil Dwivedi
9 Korba Municipal Corporation Korba Sanju Devi Rajput Usha Tiwari
10 Raigarh Municipal Corporation Raigarh Jeevardhan Chauhan Janki Katju

Municipal general election results

[edit | edit source]

Party wise

[edit | edit source]
Municipal general election results
Party Mayors/Chairpersons Corporators/ Councillors/

Ward Members

Seats +/- Seats +/-
Bharatiya Janata Party 10 10 Increase 1868 Increase1063
Indian National Congress 0 10 Decrease 952 Decrease754
Bahujan Samaj Party 0 Steady 1 Increase1
Independent 0 Steady 13 Decrease4
Total 10 Steady 3200 Increase305

Body wise

[edit | edit source]
Division Seats
BJP INC BSP AAP IND
Municipal Corporation 10 10 0 0 0 0
Nagar Palika 49 35 8 0 1 5
Nagar Panchayat 114 81 22 1 0 10
Total 173 126 30 1 1 15

Municipal Corporation wise

[edit | edit source]
No. Municipal Corporation District Winning party Elected Mayor
1 Ambikapur Municipal Corporation Sarguja Bharatiya Janata Party Manjusha Bhagat
2 Durg Municipal Corporation Durg Alka Baghmar
3 Bilaspur Municipal Corporation Bilaspur Pooja Vidhani
4 Raipur Municipal Corporation Raipur Meenal Choubey
5 Chirmiri Municipal Corporation Koriya Ram Naresh Rai
6 Dhamtari Municipal Corporation Dhamtari Jagadish Ramu Mehra
7 Jagdalpur Municipal Corporation Bastar Sanjay Pandey
8 Rajnandgaon Municipal Corporation Rajnandgaon Madhusudan Yadav
9 Korba Municipal Corporation Korba Sanju Devi Rajput
10 Raigarh Municipal Corporation Raigarh Jeevardhan Chauhan

Notes

[edit | edit source]
  1. ^ Congress candidate Vijay Golchha's candidature was rejected.

References

[edit | edit source]
  1. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  2. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  3. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  4. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  5. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  6. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  7. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  8. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  9. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
[edit | edit source]
Retrieved from "http://70.231.62.181/index.php?title=2025_Chhattisgarh_local_elections&oldid=20175424"