2021 Chandigarh Municipal Corporation election

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2021 Chandigarh Municipal Corporation election
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All 35 seats of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation
18 seats needed for a majority
Turnout60.7%
PartyLeaderVote %Seats+/–
AAP 27.08%14+14
BJP 29.30%12−8
INC 29.79%8+4
SAD 2.78%10
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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2021 Chandigarh Municipal Corporation election structure
Elected beforeElected after
BJP Kuldeep Dhalor
AAP

The elections for the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation were held on 24 December 2021. 203 candidates campaigned for 35 seats in the Chandigarh election. Election results were declared on 27 December 2021. [1]

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Contesting the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation elections for the first time, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won 14 seats and became the single largest party in the council of total 35 elected seats.

During the vote for mayor election, Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal did not vote. One Congress Councillor defected and joined BJP and one AAP vote was declared invalid. Bhartiya Janata Party's Sarabjit Kaur was elected as the new mayor of Chandigarh with 14 votes in support and 13 against. AAP have disputed the mayor election and appealed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court to quash the election of mayor, citing irregularities in the process.

Background

2016 Chandigarh Municipal Corporation election was won by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) + Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) alliance. In the 2019 Indian general election, Chandigarh (Lok Sabha constituency) was won by BJP. [2]

In the 2021 Chandigarh Municipal Corporation election, SAD and BJP contested separately without an alliance. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) contested this election for the first time. [2]

The number of wards of the corporation were increased from 26 in 2016 to 35 in the 2021 election. [3]

Major issues of the electorate

Corporation increased the water tariff. This created a widespread discontent among the residents.

Garbage from the city was not disposed of properly. The lack of a proper process or mechanism led to the garbage piling up at Dadumajra. [2]

Elections were also fought on corruption charges for which several senior AAP leaders were jailed and liquor scam. [4]

Campaign

AAP

AAP tried to reach out to voters by promising AAP parking, waste management, water supply and education. The candidates reached out to the voters and promised to bring a change if elected. [2] The high pitched campaign in Punjab by AAP also contributed to their campaign in Chandigarh.

Star Campaigners

Source: [5]

BJP

During the campaign, the BJP candidates were relying on the popularity of the BJP Prime Minister Narendra Modi. BJP tried to promote the work done under the Premiership of Narendra Modi. [2]

Star Campaigners

Polling Process

Around 6.3 lakh voters were eligible to cast their votes. [7] The wards were increased from 26 to 35. 694 polling booths were set up across Chandigarh. No VVPAT machines were used in this election. [8] 60% votes were recorded in the election. [9]

The Chandigarh administration declared December 22, 23, 24 and 27 as dry day and prohibited the sale and serving of liquor on these days, during the election and counting. [10] Polls were counted on 27 December. Nine counting centers were set up for 35 wards. [3]

Results

Contesting the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation elections for the first time, the Aam Aadmi Party won 14 seats and whereas the Indian National Congress won a plurality of the vote. [11] Sitting mayor Ravi Kant Sharma and former mayor Davesh Moudgil from BJP lost. [12] [3]

Overall results

Chandigarh Municipal Corporation
PartySeats wonSeats +/−Vote %
Aam Aadmi Party 14Increase2.svg1427.08%
Bharatiya Janata Party 12Decrease2.svg 829.30%
Indian National Congress 8Increase2.svg429.79%
Shiromani Akali Dal 1Steady2.svg2.78%
Bahujan Samaj Party 0Steady2.svg2.14%
Samajwadi Party 0Steady2.svg1.02%
Independents 0Steady2.svg7.10%
NOTA N/A1.34

Ward Wise Results

Ward
No.		Councillor [12] [3] Party
1Jaswinder Kaur AAP
2Maheshinder Singh Sidhu BJP
3Dalip Sharma BJP
4Suman Devi AAP
5Darshana INC
6Sarbajit Kaur BJP
7Manoj Kumar BJP
8Harjeet Singh BJP
9Bimala Dubey BJP
10Harpreet Kaur Babla INC
11Anup Gupta BJP
12Saurabh Joshi BJP
13Sachin Galav INC
14Kuljeet Sandhu BJP
15Ram Chander Yadav AAP
16Poonam AAP
17Damanpreet Singh AAP
18Taruna Mehta AAP
19Neha AAP
20Gurcharanjit Singh INC
21Jasbir Singh AAP
22Anju Katyal AAP
23Prem Lata AAP
24Jasbir Singh INC
25Yogesh Dhingra AAP
26Kuldeep Kumar AAP
27Gurbax Rawat INC
28Nirmala Devi INC
29Manaur AAP
30Hardeep Singh SAD
31Lakhbir Singh AAP
32Jasmanpreet Singh Babbar BJP
33Kanwarjit Rana BJP
34Gurpeet Singh INC
35Rajinder Kumar Sharma BJP

Aftermath

On 30 December 2021, Arvind Kejriwal took part in a road show to express gratitude towards Chandigarh people. [13]

Ravi Kant Sharma was the sitting mayor at the time of election. He lost his seat to Damanpreet Singh, an AAP candidate. [3] Of the five-year term of the MC House, the MCC mayor seat during the first and fourth years is reserved for the women. 2022 being the first year of the term, is reserved for women mayor. [14]

Mayor election

3 January was the last date for submission of nominations for the post of the mayor, senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation. New office holders for these posts will be elected on 8 January 2022, in the assembly hall of the Chandigarh municipal corporation (CMC). BJP councilor Maheshinder Singh Sidhu will be presiding the mayor election. [14]

A party has to win 19 wards so that its councilor can be elected as the mayor. [15] After the election no party held a clear majority and AAP remains the single largest party with 14 councilors. The contest for Mayor seat was between AAP with 14 seats and BJP with 12 seats. Congress with 8 seats was out of the Mayor race. [14]

On 2 January, ward 10 councilor who won the election on Congress party ticket, joined BJP and increased BJP strength to 13. [15] The Chandigarh MP also has a vote in the house. Kirron Kher is the BJP MP from the Chandigarh seat. Adding these two votes in support of BJP, the BJP's vote tally became 14 (same as AAP). 19 votes are needed to get elected as a Mayor. [14]

To prevent the members from engaging in cross party votes or changing their party, AAP moved its newly elected councilors to Delhi and Congress shifted their councilors to Jaipur. AAP claimed that the Delhi visit of their councilors was planned in advance. [14]

Voting

Congress and SAD abstained from voting in the mayor election. BJP and AAP took part in voting. Out of 28 total votes, BJP candidate got 14 votes and AAP candidate Anju Katyal got 13 votes. One vote of AAP party was declared invalid. BJP's Sarabjit Kaur was elected as new mayor of Chandigarh. There was ruckus in the council, AAP councilors protested against the nullification of one AAP vote and claimed that BJP was favoured in the counting process. [16] AAP called the mayor election "shocking death of democracy", and accused the District Collector of illegally electing the mayor Candidate from BJP despite AAP winning more seats in the council. [17]

Challenge in Supreme Court

AAP challenged the results of the mayor election in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. In their petition, AAP sought quashing of the 8 January polls and re-election of the mayor. [18]

According to the mayoral election norms, only a nominated councilor can become the presiding officer overseeing the polling for the mayor. The plea alleged that the process to select this nominated councillor was delayed and BJP's Maheshinder Singh Sidhu was chosen as the presiding officer. [18]

During the mayoral polls, a torn vote in support of the BJP was accepted as valid, but another vote that had a tick mark in favor of the AAP Candidate was declared invalid and not counted. AAP had questioned this in their petition to the High Court. [18]

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