2021 Punjab, India local elections

2021 Punjab municipal elections
2215 seats (400 municipal corporations + 1815 municipal councils/ nagar panchayats)
Turnout	73.53%

Last updated October 14, 2023

Municipal elections were held in the Indian state of Punjab on 14 February 2021; the result was declared on 17 February. The elections are scheduled for 117 urban local bodies, including 8 municipal corporations and 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats. Elections were originally scheduled to be held in October 2020, but were delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1]

Background

The previous elections were held in February 2015, in which Shiromani Akali Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party led in most of the councils.^[2] The elections were the first since Akali Dal left the National Democratic Alliance over the farm laws protest; both Akali Dal and BJP were contesting alone.^[3] Bhagwant Maan, the state president of Aam Aadmi Party, said the party will contest elections on its party symbol (broom).^[4] Jarnail Nangal of Lok Insaaf Party demanded to postpone the elections, saying that a large number of farmers and peasants from the state were present at the farmers' protest in Delhi.^[5]

Elections

On 16 January 2021, Punjab's state election commission announced the schedule for elections. Nominations were filed until 3 February, elections on 14 February and results on 17 February.^[6]^[7]

The expenditure limit for a candidate of a municipal corporation is ₹ 3 lakh; for the candidate of municipal council Class-I is ₹ 2.70 lakh, Class-II is ₹ 1.70 lakh, Class-III is ₹ 1.45 lakh, and candidates for Nagar panchayats is ₹ 1.05 lakh.^{[ citation needed ]}

He^{[ who? ]} said that 400 members would be elected for eight municipal corporations and 1,902 members would be elected for 109 municipal councils/Nagar panchayats in the state. Fifty per cent reservation has been given for women in municipal elections, according to Punjab Government's instructions.^{[ citation needed ]}

Election day

20,510 polling officers with 19,000 police officials were posted for peaceful and fair elections in 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats with eight municipal corporations.

In Bathinda Ward no. 34, a fake voter was caught in the polling booth. At many places conflict between Congress, AAP and Akali workers was seen.^[8]

Repolling for two booths of Samana and one booth of Patran in Patiala district was held on 16 February 2021.

Repolling for two booths of Mohali is ordered by Punjab Election Commission on 17 February 2021 on the day of results and subsequently, the result for Mohali Municipal Corporation was postponed to 18 February 2021.^[9]

Voter statistics

Gender	No. of voters
Male	20,49,777
Female	18,65,354
Other	149
Total	39,15,280 ^[10]

Voter turnout

S. no.	District	Vote%
1.	Mansa	82.99
2.	Bathinda	79
3.	Sangrur	77.39
4.	Fatehgarh Sahib	75.78
5.	Faridkot	71.03
6.	Pathankot	75.37
7.	Ferozepur	74.01
8.	Ropar	73.90
9.	Jalandhar	73.29
10.	Fazilka	72.40
11.	Barnala	71.99
12.	Patiala	70.09
13.	Ludhiana	70.33
14.	Amritsar	71.20
15.	Moga	69.50
16.	Kapurthala	64.34
17.	Sri Muktsar Sahib	68.65
18.	Hoshiarpur	66.68
19.	Gurdaspur	70.00
20.	S. B. S. Nagar	69.71
21.	Tarn Taran	73.12
22.	Mohali	60.08
Total		73.53

Schedule

The election schedule was announced by the Election Commission of Punjab on 16 January 2021.

Poll event	Schedule
Notification date	30 January 2021
Last date for filing nomination	3 February 2021
Scrutiny of nomination	4 February 2021
Last date for withdrawal of nomination	5 February 2021
Date of poll	14 February 2021
Date of counting of votes	17 February 2021

Party wise candidates

S.no.	Party	Candidates	Percentage
1.	Indian National Congress	2037	22.09%
2.	Shiromani Akali Dal	1569	17.01%
3.	Aam Aadmi Party	1606	17.41%
4.	Bharatiya Janata Party	1003	10.88%
6	Independent	2832	30.71%
7.	Others	175	1.90%
Total^[11]		9222	100%

List of participating municipal corporations/councils

Municipal corporations

Punjab has 13 municipal corporations, and eight went to the polls on 14 February 2021. In contrast, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Patiala and Amritsar polled in 2018, and polling for Phagwara was suspended due to voter list formation.

Municipal corporations
Rank	City	District	Municipal corporation	Area km2	Population (2011)	Formation
1.	Bathinda	Bathinda	Bathinda Municipal Corporation		285,813
2.	Batala	Gurdaspur	Batala Municipal Corporation	42	211,594	2019
3.	Mohali	Mohali	Municipal Corporation SAS Nagar (Mohali)	176.17	174,000
4.	Hoshiarpur	Hoshiarpur	Hoshiarpur Municipal Corporation		168,731
5.	Moga	Moga	Moga Municipal Corporation		163,897
6.	Pathankot	Pathankot	Pathankot Municipal Corporation		159,460
7.	Abohar	Fazilka	Abohar Municipal Corporation	188.24	145,658	2019
8.	Kapurthala	Kapurthala	Kapurthala Municipal Corporation		101,854	2019

List of municipal councils

The municipal councils list is as follows:^[12]

Sl. No.	District	Class-I	Class-II	Class-III
1	Sri Amritsar Sahib	-	1. Jandiala Guru	1. Majitha 2. Ramdass
2	Gurdaspur	1. Gurdaspur	2. Dinanagar 3. Dhariwal	3. Quadian 4. Sri Hargobindpur 5. Dera Baba Nanak 6. Fatehgarh Churian
3	Pathankot		4. Sujanpur
4	Sri Tarn Taran Sahib	-	5. Tarn Taran 6. Patti	-
5	Jalandhar	3. Nakodar	7. Noormahal 8. Phillaur 9. Kartarpur 10. Bhogpur 11. Adampur 12. Goraya	7. Alawalpur
6	Kapurthala		13. Sultanpur Lodhi	-
7	Hoshiarpur		14. Dasuya 15. Mukerian 16. Urmur Tanda 17. Garh Shankar	8. Garhdiwala 9. Hariana 10. Sham Churasi
8	Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar	4. Nawanshahr	18. Banga	11. Rahon 12. Balachaur
9	Ludhiana	5. Khanna 6. Jagraon	19. Samrala 20. Raikot 21. Sahnewal 22. Doraha 23. Mullanpur Dakha	13. Payal 14. Machhiwara
10	Roopnagar	7. Nangal 8. Anandpur Sahib	24. Roop Nagar 25. Morinda
11	Sri Fatehgarh Sahib	9. Gobindgarh	26. Sirhind FG Sahib	15. Bassi Pathana 16. Amloh
12	Patiala	10. Rajpura 11. Nabha 12 Samana	27. Patran	17. Sanaur
13	Sangrur	13. Sangrur 14. Malerkotla 15. Sunam	28. Ahmadgarh 29. Dhuri 30. Lehragaga	18. Longowal 19. Bhawanigarh
14	Barnala	16. Barnala	-	20. Tapa 21. Bhadaur 22. Dhanaula
15	Sahibzada Ajit singh Nagar	17. Kharar 18. Zirakpur 19. Dera Bassi	31. Kurali	23. Banur
16	Bathinda	-	32. Rampura phul 33. Bhucho Mandi 34. Goniana 35. Maur 36. Raman	24. Kotfatta 25. Sangat
17	Mansa	20. Mansa	37. Budhlada	26. Bareta
18	Sri Muktsar Sahib	21. Sri Muktsar Sahib 22. Malout	38. Gidderbaha	-
19	Firozpur	23. Ferozepur	39. Guru Har Sahai 40. Zira 41. Talwandi Bhai
20	Fazilka	24. Fazilka	42. Jalalabad	-
21	Faridkot	25. Faridkot 26. Kotkapura	43. Jaito	-
22	Moga	-	44. Bagha Purana 45. Dharamkot	-
Total		26	45	26

Party wise results

S.no.	Party	Candidates	Municipal corporations results 400 seats	Municipal councils/ panchayats results	Total seats won
1.	Indian National Congress	2037	317	1,115	1432
2.	Shiromani Akali Dal	1569	33	251	284
3.	Aam Aadmi Party	1606	18	51	69
4.	Bharatiya Janata Party	1003	20	29	49
6	Independent	2832	12	352	364
7.	Others	175	0	17(5 BSP + 12 CPI)	17
Total^[13]		9222	400	1815	2215

Municipal corporations results

S.no.	Municipal corporations
1.	Party
1.	Party	INC	SAD	AAP+	Others	Total
2.	MC won	8	0	0	0	8
3.	Seats won	317	33	18	32	400

Municipal corporation detailed results

SnNo.	Municipal corporations	Seats
SnNo.	Municipal corporations	Seats	Indian National Congress	Shiromani Akali Dal	Aam Aadmi Party	Bharatiya Janata Party	Others
1.	Abohar	50	49	1	0	0	0
2.	Batala	50	36	6	3	4	1
3.	Bathinda	50	43	7	0	0	0
4.	Hoshiarpur	50	41	0	2	4	3
5.	Kapurthala	50	45	3	0	0	2
6.	Mohali	50	37	0	9	0	4
7.	Moga	50	29	15	4	1	1
8.	Pathankot	50	37	1	0	11	1
Total		400	317	33	18	20	21

Municipal councils results

Municipal councils/nagar panchayats
Party
Party	INC		SAD	AAP	CPI	BJP	BSP	Others/hung	Total
Councils/ panchayats won		77	5	0	1	0	0	26	109
Seats won		1,115	251	51	12	29	5	352	1,815

District wise municipal councils/nagar panchayat results

S.no.	Districts	Total seats	Indian National Congress	Shiromani Akali Dal	Aam Aadmi Party	Bharatiya Janata Party	Bahujan Samaj Party	Others
S.no.	Districts	Total seats
1.	Amritsar	67	39	25	0	0	0	3
2.	Barnala	72	28	10	3	0	0	31
3.	Bathinda	170	117	26	3	0	1	23
4.	Faridkot	71	44	13	3	1	0	10
5.	Fatehgarh Sahib	82	53	8	6	0	0	15
6.	Fazilka	53	40	6	3	4	0	0
7.	Ferozpur	102	86	13	1	0	0	2
8.	Gurdaspur	96	73	12	0	0	0	11
9.	Hoshiarpur	91	60	7	4	3	0	17
10.	Jalandhar	110	47	1	1	0	2	59
11.	Kapurthala	13	10	3	0	0	0	0
12.	Ludhiana	114	82	16	3	2	0	11
13.	Mansa	85	22	6	4	0	0	53
14.	Moga	39	21	9	4	0	0	5
15.	Pathankot	15	8	0	0	5	0	2
16.	Patiala	92	66	11	2	2	0	11
17.	Roopnagar	92	47	3	0	2	1	39
18.	S.A.S.Nagar	145	85	34	1	5	0	20
19.	Sangrur	150	96	19	5	2	0	28
20.	S.B.S.Nagar	47	16	6	5	1	1	18
21	SriMukatsar Sahib	77	49	19	1	2	0	6
22.	Tarn Taran	32	26	4	2	0	0	0
Total		1,815	1,115	251	51	29	5	352

Results by municipality

S.no.	Municipal council	Total seats	INC	SAD	BJP	AAP	Others
	Amritsar District
1.	Ajnala	15	7	8	0	0	0
2.	Jandiala Guru	15	10	3	0	0	2
3.	Majitha	13	2	10	0	0	1
4.	Ramdass	11	8	3	0	0	0
5.	Rayya	13	12	1	0	0	0
	Barnala District
6.	Barnala	31	16	4	0	3	8
7.	Bhadaur	13	6	3	0	0	4
8.	Dhanaula	13	0	0	0	0	13
9.	Tapa	15	6	3	0	0	6
	Bathinda District
10.	Bhucho Mandi	13	10	2	0	0	1
11.	Bhagta Bhai ka	13	9	3	0	0	1
12.	Bhai Roopa	13	8	4	0	0	1
13.	Goniana	13	7	0	0	0	6
14.	Raman	15	11	2	0	0	2
15.	Maluka	11	9	2	0	0	0
16.	Maur	17	13	1	0	0	3
17.	Nathana	11	1	3	0	3	4
18.	Kot Shahmir	13	10	1	0	0	2
19.	Kotha Guru	11	11	0	0	0	0
20.	Kot Fatta	11	9	0	0	0	2
21.	Lehra Muhobbat	7	7	0	0	0	0
22.	Mehraj	13	10	1	0	0	2
23.	Sangat	9	2	7	0	0	0
	Faridkot District
24.	Faridkot	25	16	7	0	1	1
25.	Jaito	17	7	3	2	1	4
26.	Kotkapura	29	21	3	0	0	5
	Fatehgarh Sahib District
27.	Bassi Pathana	16	9	2	0	1	4
28.	Khamano	13	5	1	0	0	7
28.	Mandi Gobindgarh	29	19	4	0	2	4
30.	Sirhind FG Sahib	23	19	1	0	3	0
	Fazilka District
31.	Arniwala	11	10	1	0	0	0
32.	Fazilka	25	19	0	4	2	0
33.	Jalalabad	17	11	5	0	1	0
	Ferozepur District
34.	Ferozepur	33	33	0	0	0	0
35.	Guru Har Sahai	13	13	0	0	0	0
36.	Mudki	13	5	8	0	0	0
37.	Mamdot	13	9	2	0	0	2
38.	Talwandi Bhai	13	9	3	0	0	1
39.	Zira	17	17	0	0	0	0
	Gurdaspur District
40.	Dhariwal	13	9	2	0	0	2
41.	Dinanagar	15	14	0	0	0	1
42.	FatehgarhChurian	13	12	1	0	0	0
43.	Gurdaspur	29	29	0	0	0	0
44.	Qadian	15	6	7	0	0	2
45.	Sri Hargobindpur	11	3	1	0	0	7
	Hoshiarpur District
46.	Dasuya	15	11	0	0	4	0
47.	Garhdiwala	11	10	0	0	0	1
48.	Garh Shankar	13	3	0	0	0	10
49.	Hariana	11	7	1	0	0	3
50.	Mukerian	15	11	1	3	0	0
51.	Sham Churasi	9	4	3	0	0	2
52.	Urmur Tanda	15	12	2	0	0	1
	Jalandhar District
53.	Adampur	13	0	0	0	0	13
54.	Alawalpur	11	0	1	0	0	10
55.	Kartarpur	15	6	0	0	0	9
56.	Nakodar	17	9	0	0	0	8
57.	Noormahal	13	0	0	1	0	12
58.	Phillaur	15	11	0	0	0	4
59.	Lohian	13	10	0	0	0	3
60.	Mehatpur	13	11	0	0	0	2
	Kapurthala District
61.	Sultanpur Lodhi	13	10	3	0	0	0
	Ludhiana District
62.	Doraha	15	11	2	0	1	1
63.	Jagraon	23	17	1	0	0	5
64.	Khanna	33	19	6	2	2	4
65.	Payal	11	9	1	0	0	1
66.	Raikot	15	15	0	0	0	0
67.	Samrala	15	10	5	0	0	0
	Mansa District
68.	Bareta	13	0	0	0	0	13
69.	Budhlada	19	6	2	0	1	10
70.	Joga	13	0	0	0	0	13 (12 CPI)
71.	Boha	13	2	2	0	0	9
72.	Mansa	27	14	2	0	3	8
	Moga District
73.	Badhni Kalan	13	4	5	0	0	4
74.	Kot Isse Khan	13	9	2	0	1	1
75.	Nihal Singh Wala	13	4	5	0	4	0
	Pathankot District
76.	Sujanpur	15	8	0	6	0	1
	Patiala District
77.	Nabha	23	14	6	0	0	3
78.	Patran	17	7	3	0	1	6
79.	Rajpura	31	27	1	2	1	0
80.	samana	21	18	1	0	0	2
	Rupnagar District
81.	Anandpur Sahib	13	0	0	0	0	13
82.	Kiratpur Sahib	11	0	1	0	0	10
83.	Morinda	15	7	0	0	0	8
84.	Nangal	19	15	0	2	0	2
85.	Sri Chamkaur Sahib	13	9	0	0	0	3
86.	Rupnagar	21	16	2	0	0	3
	S.A.S. Nagar District
87.	Banur	13	12	1	0	0	0
88.	Dera Bassi	19	13	3	1	0	2
89.	Kharar	27	10	8	0	1	8
90.	Kurali	17	9	2	1	0	5
91.	Larlu	17	12	2	0	0	3
92.	Nawan Gaon	21	6	10	3	0	2
93.	Zirakpur	31	23	8	0	0	0
	Sangrur District
94.	Amargarh	11	5	5	0	1	0
95.	Ahmedgarh	17	9	3	0	1	4
96.	Bhawanigarh	15	13	1	0	0	1
97.	Dhuri	21	11	0	0	2	8
98.	Lehragaga	15	9	0	0	0	6
99.	Longowal	15	9	2	0	0	4
100.	Malerkotla	33	21	8	2	1	1
101	Sunam	23	19	0	0	0	4
	S.B.S. Nagar District
102.	Banga	15	5	3	1	5	1
103.	Nawan Shehar	19	11	3	0	0	5
104.	Rahon	13	7	4	0	0	2
	Sri Muktsar Sahib District
105.	Gidderbaha	19	18	0	0	0	1
106.	Malout	27	14	9	0	0	4
107.	Sri Muktsar sahib	31	17	10	1	2	1
	Tarn Taran District
108.	Patti	19	15	2	0	2	0
109.	Bhikhiwind	13	11	2	0	0	0

Bypolls

S.no.	District	Corporation/ council/ panchayat	Ward no.	Reservation	Winner
S.no.	District	Corporation/ council/ panchayat	Ward no.	Reservation	Winner
1.	Amritsar	Amritsar	37	BC		INC
2.	Ludhiana	Mullanpur Dakha	8	Gen.		INC
3.	Ludhiana	Sahnewal	6	Gen.		SAD
4.	FatehgarhSahib	Amloh	12	Gen.		INC
5.	Hoshiarpur	Talwara	1	Gen.		INC
6.	Hoshiarpur	Mahilpur	1	Women		INC
6.	Hoshiarpur	Mahilpur	11	SC		INC

Aftermath

Indian National Congress won eight out of eight municipal corporations of its own, and nine out of ten independents joined the Indian National Congress in Moga Municipal Corporation.

In municipal councils and nagar panchayats of 109, INC won 78 of its own and 20 with the support of independents, having 98 out of 109. Akali dal won five, and CPI won Joga Council in Mansa. Still, five councils are not clear, and independents have the majority in those five.

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[2] "Punjab MC Polls-All 122 Municipal Council/Nagar Panchayats Election Results-2015 (list in PDF )". www.babushahi.com. Retrieved 2021-01-13.

[3] "Will contest all 50 seats in next Mohali MC elections: BJP". Hindustan Times. 2020-10-03. Retrieved 2021-01-13.

[4] "AAP to contest local bodies' elections in Punjab on party symbol". The Indian Express. 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2021-01-14.

[5] "A demand was made to postpone the corporation elections till the end of the peasant agitation". www.punjabnewsexpress.com. Retrieved 2021-01-14.

[6] "Punjab local body elections on February 14". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 2021-01-16.

[7] "Program for general/Bye elections of municipal corporations,Municipal councils and nagar panchayats-2021 announced". www.punjabnewsexpress.com. Retrieved 2021-01-16.

[8] "Local Government Election Results 2022 Assembly Election Trailer: Sunil Jakhar| Punjab MC Election Results - News Left and Right". News Left and Right. 17 February 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-17.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

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