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2025 Rishikesh Municipal Corporation election
All 40 seats in the Rishikesh Municipal Corporation; 21 seats needed for a majority
Mayor before election; Anita Mamgain; BJP	Elected mayor ; Shambhu Paswan; BJP

The 2025 Rishikesh Municipal Corporation election^[1]^[2]^[3] is a municipal election to the Rishikesh Municipal Corporation which governs Rishikesh city in Uttarakhand. It was held on 23 January 2025.

Election schedule

The election schedule was announced by the state election commission on 23 December 2024.^[4]

Poll Event	Schedule
Notification Date	27 December 2024
Last Date for filing nomination	30 December 2024
Scrutiny of nomination	31 December 2024
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination	2 January 2025
Allotment of Symbols	3 January 2025
Date of Poll	23 January 2025
Date of Counting of Votes	25 January 2025

Candidates

Mayoral

No.	Party			Symbol	Candidate's Name
1		Bharatiya Janata Party			Shambhu Paswan^[5]
2		Indian National Congress			Deepak Jatav^[5]

Ward-wise candidates

Ward No.	Ward Name
Ward No.	Ward Name
1	Chandreshwar Nagar	BJP	Kiran Yadav	INC	Pushpa Mishra
2	Triveni Colony	BJP	Roopa Devi	INC	Reena Bharadwaj
3	Durga Mandir	BJP	Priyanka Yadav	INC	Urmila Devi
4	Bhairav Mandir	BJP	Pooja Nautiyal	INC	Suman Rani
5	Pushkar Mandir	BJP	Shiva Prajapati	INC	Devendra Prajapati
6	Adarsh Gram	BJP	Gambhir Mewar	INC	Sunil Kumar
7	Mayakund	BJP	Ajay Kumar Das	INC	Vishal Singh
8	Bharat Mandir	BJP	Vijay Lakshmi Bhatt	INC
9	Mukherjee Marg	BJP	Reena Sharma	INC	Rahul Sharma
10	Sadanand Marg	BJP	Ashwani Dang	INC	Manish Sharma
11	Ashutosh Nagar	BJP	Sumit Tiwari	INC	Bhagwan Singh
12	Pragati Vihar	BJP	Rajendra Bijalwan	INC	Sarojini Thapliyal
13	Valmiki Nagar	BJP	Ekta Khairwal	INC	Meghana
14	Subhash Vankhandi	BJP	Lata Tiwari	INC
15	Maniram Marg	BJP	Prabhakar Sharma	INC	Kuldeep Sharma
16	Tilak Marg	BJP	Pradeep Kohli	INC
17	Ganga Vihar	BJP	Shiv Kumar Gautam	INC	Kamlesh Sharma
18	Shanti Nagar	BJP	Rajesh Kumar	INC	Ajay Diwakar
19	Someshwar Mandir	BJP	Payal Bisht	INC	Radha Devi
20	Ganganagar	BJP	Sandhya Bisht	INC
21	Upper Ganganagar	BJP	Neelam Manori	INC
22	Shastri Nagar	BJP	Reha Dhyani	INC	Sunita Bansal
23	Sarvhara Nagar	BJP	Vikas Tewatia	INC	Veerpal
24	Bharat Vihar	BJP	Tanu Tewatia	INC	Lajwanti Bhandari
25	Awas Vikas	BJP	Jyoti Paswan	INC	Urmila Dimri
26	Shivaji Nagar	BJP	Jayesh Rana	INC	Sardar Gurvinder Singh
27	Bairaj Ward	BJP	Devendra Prasad Dimri	INC	Abhinav Singh Malik
28	Virbhadra Mandir	BJP	Rahul Kashyap	INC	Rakesh Rajbhar
29	Bees Bigha	BJP	Vimal Singh Negi	INC	Sachveer Bhandari
30	Meera Nagar	BJP	Anita Pradhan	INC
31	Bapugram	BJP	Manju Devi	INC	Sakshi
32	Suman Vihar	BJP	Govind Singh Rawat	INC	Bhupendra Kukreti
33	Gita Nagar	BJP	Vijay Badoni	INC
34	Malviya Nagar	BJP	Rajesh Kothiyal	INC	Sumit Chauhan
35	Amit Gram East	BJP	Vipin Pant	INC	Arvind Negi
36	Amit Gram West	BJP	Vijay Jugran	INC
37	Mansha Devi	BJP	Vijendra Mogha	INC	Manoj Barthawal
38	Indira Nagar	BJP	Rajendra Singh Bisht	INC
39	Nehru Gram	BJP	Jagat Negi	INC
40	THDC	BJP	Pushkar Bangwal	INC	Moni Dirwal

Results

Mayoral election

2025 Rishikesh Municipal Corporation Election: Mayor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Shambhu Paswan	23,998	41.38
	Independent	Dinesh Chandra 'Masterji'	20,978	36.17
	INC	Deepak Jatav	11,955	20.61
	UKD	Mahendra Singh	759	1.31
	NOTA	None of the above	303	0.52
Majority			3,020	5.21
Turnout			57,993
	BJP hold		Swing

Results by party

Party		Seats
Party		Contested	Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party	40	18	3
	Indian National Congress	28	6	3
	Other parties	7^[a]	0
	Independents	69	16
	NOTA
Total		144	40

Notes

^ 5 of UKD, 1 of BSP and 1 of AAP.

References

^ खान, दानिश (23 December 2024). "उत्तराखंड निकाय चुनाव 2024 की तारीखों का ऐलान, जानें- कब होंगे मतदान और किस दिन आएंगे रिजल्ट". www.abplive.com.
^ "उत्तराखंड निकाय चुनाव की तारीखों का ऐलान, जानें नगर निगम, नगरपालिका और नगर पंचायतों में कब पड़ेगा वोट". Zee News Hindi.
^ "उत्तराखंड में नगर निकाय चुनाव की तारीख का एलान, आरक्षण तय होने पर चुनाव आयोग ने की घोषणा - Date of municipal elections announced in Uttarakhand Election Commission announced after reservation was decided". Jagran.
^ "उत्तराखंड में निकाय चुनाव की तिथि घोषित - कुमाऊँ जनसंदेश". 23 December 2024.
^ ^a ^b "BJP, Cong release another list of candidates for ULB polls". Times of India. 29 December 2024. Retrieved 30 December 2024.

External links

State Election Commission

[6] 5 of UKD, 1 of BSP and 1 of AAP.

[1] खान, दानिश (23 December 2024). "उत्तराखंड निकाय चुनाव 2024 की तारीखों का ऐलान, जानें- कब होंगे मतदान और किस दिन आएंगे रिजल्ट". www.abplive.com.

[2] "उत्तराखंड निकाय चुनाव की तारीखों का ऐलान, जानें नगर निगम, नगरपालिका और नगर पंचायतों में कब पड़ेगा वोट". Zee News Hindi.

[3] "उत्तराखंड में नगर निकाय चुनाव की तारीख का एलान, आरक्षण तय होने पर चुनाव आयोग ने की घोषणा - Date of municipal elections announced in Uttarakhand Election Commission announced after reservation was decided". Jagran.

[4] "उत्तराखंड में निकाय चुनाव की तिथि घोषित - कुमाऊँ जनसंदेश". 23 December 2024.

[BJP_&_INC_Mayor_candidates_Uttarakhand-5] "BJP, Cong release another list of candidates for ULB polls". Times of India. 29 December 2024. Retrieved 30 December 2024.

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