2022 Asansol Municipal Corporation election

2022 Asansol Municipal Corporation election

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All 106 seats in Asansol Municipal Corporation 54 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	73.21%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Bidhan Upadhyay None Jitendra Tiwari Party AITC CPI(M) BJP Last election 76 seats 14 seats 8 seats Seats won 91 seats 2 seats 7 seats Seat change 15 12 1 Percentage 85.85% 1.89% 6.6%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader None Party INC Independents Last election 3 seats 2 seats Seats won 3 seats 2 seats Seat change – – Percentage 2.83% 2.83%
AMC Mayor before election Jitendra Tiwari AITC Elected AMC Mayor Bidhan Upadhyay AITC

The 2022 Asansol Municipal Corporation election was held on 12 February 2022 to elect 106 members of the Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC) which governs Asansol, the 2nd largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal in the district of Paschim Bardhaman. ^[1]

Schedule

Poll event	Schedule
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:

Party		Symbol	Alliance	No. of contesting candidates
	All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)		None	106
	All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)		Left Front	15
	Communist Party of India (CPI)			11
	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))			72
	Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP)			6
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)		None	102
	Indian National Congress (INC)			50
	Independents (IND)			62
	Janata Dal (United) (JDU)			2

Candidates

List of candidates

Ward		Reservation	AITC			Left Front			BJP			INC
#	Name	SC/Women	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate
1	Ward No. 1	None		AITC	Mridul Chakraborty		CPI(M)	Tapas Kabi		BJP	Talababu Maddi		INC	Somnath Chatterjee
2	Ward No. 2	Women		AITC	Shrabani Mandal		CPI(M)	Namita Das		BJP	Renu Kumari Mahato	INC supports CPI(M)
3	Ward No. 3	None		AITC	AB House		AIFB	Subal Chandra Nath		BJP	Chhanda Ganguli		INC	Md. Asgar Ali
4	Ward No. 4			AITC	Sk. Sandar		CPI(M)	Md. Zaheer Ansari		BJP	Niranjan Singh	INC supports CPI(M)
5	Ward No. 5	Women		AITC	Bandana Ruidas		CPI(M)	Taniya Kabi		BJP	Sudha Devi	INC supports CPI(M)
6	Ward No. 6	None		AITC	Sanjoy Kumar Mukherjee		CPI(M)	Dilip Bauri		BJP	Sudan Ruidas	INC supports CPI(M)
7	Ward No. 7	SC		AITC	Susmita Bauri		CPI(M)	Sima Bauri		BJP	Mithu Maji	INC supports CPI(M)
8	Ward No. 8	None		AITC	Sri Subrata Adhikary		CPI(M)	Sanjoy Chatterjee		BJP	Malay Chakraborty	INC supports CPI(M)
9	Ward No. 9	SC Women		AITC	Baishakhi Bouri		CPI(M)	Dhararani Bouri		BJP	Pratima Bouri	INC supports CPI(M)
10	Ward No. 10	Women		AITC	Usha Paswan		CPI(M)	Anjali Devi		BJP	Rubi Singh		INC	Monidwipa Chatterjee
11	Ward No. 11	None		AITC	Md Arif Ali		CPI(M)	Md Sabbir Hussain		BJP	Sunil Kumar Singh		INC	Md Alam
12	Ward No. 12			AITC	Samarjit Goswami		CPI(M)	Dayamoy Bauri		BJP	Kartik Dhibar		INC	Ansari Md Ishtiaque
13	Ward No. 13	Women		AITC	Rina Mukherjee		CPI(M)	Priyanka Das		BJP	Jayanti Ruidas	INC supports CPI(M)
14	Ward No. 14	None		AITC	Utpal Singha		CPI(M)	Pradip Kumar Sarkar		BJP	Subhasish Biswas	INC supports CPI(M)
15	Ward No. 15			AITC	Shyam Saren		AIFB	Trilochan Roy		BJP	Adarsh Sharma		INC	Manab Kumar Roy
16	Ward No. 16	Women		AITC	Moonmoon Mukherjee		CPI	Dalli Ray		BJP	Chandana Das	INC supports CPI(M)
17	Ward No. 17	SC		AITC	Reena Kumari Prasad		AIFB	Pintu Hela		BJP	Lalan Mehra	INC supports AIFB
18	Ward No. 18	None		AITC	Tapan Mondal		CPI(M)	Subodh Hari		BJP	Amit Kumar Tulsyan	INC supports CPI(M)
19	Ward No. 19	SC		AITC	Usha Kumari Rajak		CPI(M)	Jagarnath Paswan		BJP	Ram Bouri		INC	Sukanta Das
20	Ward No. 20	None		AITC	Arun Maji		CPI(M)	Suresh Bauri		BJP	Prasenjit Mondal	INC supports CPI(M)
21	Ward No. 21	Women		AITC	Shraboni Mondal		CPI	Chhabi Bhattacharya		BJP	Nanda Wheeler	INC supports CPI
22	Ward No. 22	None		AITC	Anirban Das(Animesh)		CPI(M)	Trilok Goswami		BJP	Subhasis Das(Kartick)		INC	Srilata Banerjee
23	Ward No. 23			AITC	C.K. Reshma Radhakrishnan		AIFB	Md Nazrul	Didn't Field Candidate				INC	Haider Imam Ansari
24	Ward No. 24	Women		AITC	Fansabi Begum(Alia)		CPI(M)	Shabana Khatoon		BJP	Krishna Nandi		INC	Shahina Parween
25	Ward No. 25	None		AITC	Md Nasim Ansari		CPI(M)	Md Aftab Alam	Didn't Field Candidate				INC	S.M. Mustafa
26	Ward No. 26			AITC	Md. Wasimul Haque		CPI(M)	Md Iftekar	Didn't Field Candidate				INC	Md. Azad
27	Ward No. 27	Women		AITC	Rita Biswas		CPI	Soma Roy		BJP	Chaitali Tiwari	INC supports CPI
28	Ward No. 28	None		AITC	Md Irshad Alam		AIFB	Md Israil		BJP	Md Islam		INC	Ghulam Sarwar
29	Ward No. 29			AITC	kabita Yadav		CPI	Hemant Mishra		BJP	Gourab Gupta		INC	Md. Shahbuddin
30	Ward No. 30	SC Women		AITC	Gopa Roy		CPI(M)	Ranu Chanda		BJP	Bina Adhikari		INC	Mili Mazumder
31	Ward No. 31	Women		AITC	Asha Prasad		CPI(M)	Tanushree Roy		BJP	Rekha Kumari Sharma	INC supports CPI(M)
32	Ward No. 32	SC		AITC	BHola Kumar Hela		CPI	Charitar Paswan		BJP	Sadhan Maji		INC	Sukumar Maji
33	Ward No. 33	None		AITC	Kanchan Kanti Tewary		CPI(M)	Naran Bauri		BJP	Shamsher Singh		INC	Shilanandan Jha
34	Ward No. 34			AITC	Ranjit Singh		CPI(M)	Sonjoy Pramanik		BJP	Anand Kumar Shaw	INC supports CPI(M)
35	Ward No. 35	Women		AITC	Akhtari Khatoon		CPI(M)	Nilu Bibi	Didn't Field Candidate			INC supports CPI(M)
36	Ward No. 36	SC		AITC	Dibyendu Bhakat (Sanu)		CPI(M)	Sanjay Ruidas		BJP	Radheshyam Bhakat	INC supports CPI(M)
37	Ward No. 37	None		AITC	Rupesh kumar Yadav		CPI(M)	Karu Thakur		BJP	Shampa Chatterjee	INC supports CPI(M)
38	Ward No. 38	ST Women		AITC	Meena Kumari Hansda		CPI(M)	Dolon Hembrom		BJP	Arati Munda(Kora)	INC supports CPI(M)
39	Ward No. 39	None		AITC	Jyoti Sankar karmakar		CPI	Prem Barma		BJP	Prabhat Kumar Mahato		INC	Shivjee Saw
40	Ward No. 40	Women		AITC	Moumita Biswas		CPI	Sudha Sindhu Singh		BJP	Rakhi Kushwaha	INC supports CPI
41	Ward No. 41	Women		AITC	Ranbir Singh Bharara		CPI(M)	Jairam Sharma		BJP	Bigu Thakur	INC supports CPI(M)
42	Ward No. 42	None		AITC	Amitava Basu		CPI(M)	Atanu Mukherjee		BJP	Madhu Sudan Dey		INC	Arup Mukherjee
43	Ward No. 43	Women		AITC	Rajarsi Gupta		CPI(M)	Amna Khatoon		BJP	Asha Sharma	INC supports CPI(M)
44	Ward No. 44	None		AITC	Amarnath Chatterjee		CPI	Amit Kumar Sharma		BJP	Sheo Prasad Burman		INC	Bishwajit Burman
45	Ward No. 45			AITC	Utpal Ray		CPI(M)	Chandra Nath Roy		BJP	Manik Roy		INC	Hussain Naghma
46	Ward No. 46	Women		AITC	Shikha Ghatak		CPI	Madhuchhanda Das		BJP	Rinku Das	INC supports CPI
47	Ward No. 47	None		AITC	Rajesh Tiwari		CPI(M)	Jayanta Chakrabarty		BJP	Indranil Ghosh	INC supports CPI(M)
48	Ward No. 48			AITC	Gurudas Chatterjee		CPI(M)	Victor Acharjee		BJP	Pijush Kanti Goswami	INC supports CPI(M)
49	Ward No. 49	Women		AITC	Shampa Dawn		CPI(M)	Annanya Dawn Chakraborty		BJP	Priya Konar	INC supports CPI(M)
50	Ward No. 50	None		AITC	Abhijit Ghatak		CPI(M)	Ramjee Dubey		BJP	Raja Mukherjee	INC supports CPI(M)
51	Ward No. 51			AITC	Ananta Majumdar		CPI(M)	Prakash Das		BJP	Hemanta mandal		INC	Kanchan Dey
52	Ward No. 52	Women		AITC	Mousumi Bose		RSP	Suchitra Gupta		BJP	Upasana Upadhyay		INC	Tapati Mukherjee
53	Ward No. 53	None		AITC	Tapan Banerjee		CPI(M)	Hare Krishna Aich		BJP	Debrabata Ghosh		INC	Kajal Banerjee
54	Ward No. 54	SC		AITC	Dilip Baral		RSP	Arun Maji		BJP	Dinesh Kumar Lal	INC supports RSP
55	Ward No. 55	None		AITC	Dipa Chakraborty		CPI(M)	Anil Kumar Jha		BJP	Sudip Guha Roy	INC supports CPI(M)
56	Ward No. 56	Women		AITC	Shrabani Biswas		RSP	Ranu Bag		BJP	Ragini Singh		INC	Pampa Chatterjee
57	Ward No. 57	SC		AITC	Samit Maji		CPI(M)	Aditya Maji		BJP	Amar Bauri	INC supports CPI(M)
58	Ward No. 58	None		AITC	Sanjay Nonia		CPI	Tapan Bouri		BJP	Aloke Maji		INC	Ravi Prasad
59	Ward No. 59			AITC	Kanchan Roy		AIFB	Md Salauddin Ansari		BJP	Goutam Chakraborty		INC	Md Zakir Hussain
60	Ward No. 60	Women		AITC	Indrani Mishra		AIFB	Rekha Banerjee		BJP	Shilpi Roy		INC	Manashi Mondal
61	Ward No. 61	None		AITC	Adinath Puitandi		CPI(M)	Biru Jadab		BJP	Kanchan Sinha		INC	Bano Shahnaz
62	Ward No. 62			AITC	Kshama Mandal		CPI(M)	Snigdha Mondal		BJP	Sabriti Bauri	INC supports CPI(M)
63	Ward No. 63			AITC	Md Salim Akhtar Aansari		CPI(M)	Md Aslam		BJP	Amit Kumar Keshari		INC	Hasan Imam Khan
64	Ward No. 64	Women		AITC	Poonam Devi		AIFB	Sulata Banerjee		BJP	Madhurima Roy	INC supports AIFB
65	Ward No. 65	None		AITC	Md Akhtar Hussain		CPI(M)	Md Nawabuddin Khan		BJP	Jishan Quraishi	INC supports CPI(M)
66	Ward No. 66			AITC	Ashok Kumar Paswan		AIFB	Manas Pal		BJP	Rajesh Sinha	INC supports AIFB
67	Ward No. 67	Women		AITC	Baby Bauri		CPI(M)	Jinat Mohammed		BJP	Sunita Chourasia	INC supports CPI(M)
68	Ward No. 68	None		AITC	Jitendra Tewari		AIFB	Tarkeshwar Nath Singh		BJP	Raju Yadav		INC	Manoj Kumar Nonia
69	Ward No. 69			AITC	Sumita Ghosh		RSP	Debrabata Adhikari		BJP	Sushanta Mandal		INC	Motilal Gupta
70	Ward No. 70	SC		AITC	Okil Das		AIFB	Sital Bauri		BJP	Aditya Narayan Sharma	INC supports AIFB
71	Ward No. 71	Women		AITC	Satabdi Bhandari		CPI(M)	Basantidebi Mahato		BJP	Muni Mahato	INC supports CPI(M)
72	Ward No. 72	SC		AITC	Chaitannya Maji		CPI	Baidyanath Das		BJP	Somnath Maji		INC	Mala Mondal
73	Ward No. 73	SC Women		AITC	Sunita Bouri		AIFB	Angura Bauri		BJP	Sonali Bauri		INC	Panshoki Maji
74	Ward No. 74	None		AITC	Ujjal Chatterjee		CPI(M)	Priyabrata Sarkar		BJP	Santu Banerjee		INC	Naba Kumar Bouri
75	Ward No. 75			AITC	Kanchan Mukherjee		CPI(M)	Dipali Mondal		BJP	Susama Maji Bhandari	INC supports CPI(M)
76	Ward No. 76	Women		AITC	Babita Das		CPI(M)	Kabita Ghosh		BJP	Supriya Mishra	INC supports CPI(M)
77	Ward No. 77	None		AITC	Gurmit Singh		Ind	Sunny Kumar Sah		BJP	Rajaram Singh		INC	Bonashree Dubey
78	Ward No. 78			AITC	Ashok Rudra		CPI(M)	Chandan Mishra		BJP	Ujjal Sharma		INC	Ashok Banerjee
79	Ward No. 79	Women		AITC	Sima Mondal		CPI(M)	Mina Lahiri Karmakar		BJP	Purnima Dey		INC	Laxmi Devi
80	Ward No. 80	None		AITC	Rakesh Kumar Sharma		CPI(M)	Shantanu Chakraborty		BJP	Momendra Kumar Shaw		INC	Bamapada Bhattacharjee
81	Ward No. 81			AITC	Sona Gupta		CPI(M)	Sankar Dasgupta		BJP	Sandhya Pramanik		INC	Dimpala Paul
82	Ward No. 82	Women		AITC	Nargis Bano		RSP	Noorie Parween		BJP	Sushila Yadav		INC	Shahnaz Bano
83	Ward No. 83	None		AITC	Md Hasratullah		RSP	Asgar Ali		BJP	Rupa Biswas Kar		INC	Shah Alam khan
84	Ward No. 84			AITC	Debashis Sarkar		CPI(M)	Tanmoy Ganguly		BJP	Madhumita Chatterjee		INC	Rajesh Dutta
85	Ward No. 85	Women		AITC	Kalyani Roy		CPI(M)	Sima Halder		BJP	Kakali Ghosh	INC supports CPI(M)
86	Ward No. 86	None		AITC	Manas Das		Ind	Chanda Himaghna		BJP	Tapas das		INC	Siddhartha Dey
87	Ward No. 87			AITC	Tarun Chakraborty		CPI(M)	Utpal Roy		BJP	Anup Kumar Chattaraj	INC supports CPI(M)
88	Ward No. 88	Women		AITC	Neha Shaw		CPI(M)	Jayasree Sarkar		BJP	Sumati Mukherjee	INC supports CPI(M)
89	Ward No. 89	None		AITC	Md Mozammil Hussain		CPI(M)	kanez Fatma		BJP	Suresh Prasad Bhadani	INC supports CPI(M)
90	Ward No. 90	SC		AITC	Sakti Ruidas		CPI(M)	Magaram Bauri		BJP	Debjit Khan	INC supports CPI(M)
91	Ward No. 91	None		AITC	Raju Singh		CPI(M)	Kallol Ghosh		BJP	Deb Kumar Bose	INC supports CPI(M)
92	Ward No. 92	Women		AITC	Shyama Upadhyay		CPI(M)	Krishna Dasgupta		BJP	Sunita Kyal	INC supports CPI(M)
93	Ward No. 93	None		AITC	Alok Basu		CPI(M)	Monojit Bose		BJP	Dinesh Soni	INC supports CPI(M)
94	Ward No. 94	ST		AITC	Dilip Orang		CPI(M)	Gandhi Orang		BJP	Upinda Orang	INC supports CPI(M)
95	Ward No. 95	SC Women		AITC	Sandhya Das		CPI(M)	Soma Das		BJP	Rina Das	INC supports CPI(M)
96	Ward No. 96	SC		AITC	Shibnada Bauri		CPI(M)	Sadhan Majhi		BJP	Tumpa Bouri	INC supports CPI(M)
97	Ward No. 97	None		AITC	Anup Kumar Maji		CPI(M)	Kuntala Bauri		BJP	Rajendra Bouri	INC supports CPI(M)
98	Ward No. 98	Women		AITC	Kahkashan Reyaz		CPI(M)	Zia Aafrin		BJP	Amrawati Devi Shukla		INC	Majhbyn Khatun
99	Ward No. 99	ST		AITC	Rabilal Tudu		CPI(M)	Bishnu Mandi		BJP	Sunil Tudu	INC supports CPI(M)
100	Ward No. 100	None		AITC	Haladhar Karmakar		AIFB	Prabesh Sao		BJP	Ajit Paswan		INC	Ashwini Bauri
101	Ward No. 101	ST Women		AITC	Sabita Tudu		AIFB	Sumitra Hembram		BJP	Sorodhoni Besra	INC supports AIFB
102	Ward No. 102	None		AITC	Saurab Maji		CPI(M)	Samiran Ghosh		BJP	Abhijit Acharyya		INC	Anjan Maji
103	Ward No. 103	SC		AITC	Trilochan Maji		AIFB	Laltu Thandar		BJP	Tarak nath Dhibar		INC	Rahul Bouri
104	Ward No. 104	SC		AITC	Anjan Mondal		AIFB	Uttam Bauri		BJP	Rajib Bauri		INC	Bandhan Bouri
105	Ward No. 105	Women		AITC	Sukla Acharjee		CPI(M)	Rubiya Zafar		BJP	Indrani Acharyya		INC	Rabani Murmu
106	Ward No. 106	None		AITC	Akshay Ghosh		CPI(M)	Dharma Das Maji		BJP	Shiba Hansda	INC supports CPI(M)

Result

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Bye-Elections

Date	District	Body	Ward	Won Party		Runner Up Party		Margin
Aug 21 [2]	Paschim Barddhaman	Asansol Municipal Corporation	6		AITC		CPI(M)	5477

References

1. "West Bengal: Municipal elections for Asansol, Chandannagar, Bidhannagar and Siliguri to take place on January 22".
2. "Home | West Bengal State Election Commission". portal.wbme.org. Retrieved 4 August 2022.