2022 Siliguri Municipal Corporation election

2022 Siliguri Municipal Corporation election
All 47 seats in Siliguri Municipal Corporation ; 24 seats needed for a majority
	Seats won in Siliguri Municipal Corporation
Mayor before election; Ashok Bhattacharya ; CPI(M)	Elected Mayor ; Goutam Deb ; AITC

Last updated February 04, 2024

Municipal elections were held in Siliguri on 12 February 2022 to elect members of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation.

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

Voter Statistics

Parties and alliances

Following is a list of political parties and alliances which contested in this election:

	Alliance	No. of contesting candidates
All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)	Left Front	3
Communist Party of India (CPI)		2
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))		36
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP)		2
All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)	None	47
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)		46
Indian National Congress (INC)		34
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation CPI(ML)L		1
Independents (IND)		30

Candidates

List of candidates
#	Name	SC/ST/Women	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate
Ward		Reservation	Left Front			AITC			BJP			INC
1	Ward No. 1	None		RSP	Biswajit Roy		AITC	Sanjay Pathak		BJP	Kanhaiya Kumar Pathak		INC	Maksudan Sahani
2	Ward No. 2	Women		CPI(M)	Snighda Hazra(Halder)		AITC	Gargi Chatterjee		BJP	Bani Paul		INC	Tanu Ghosh
3	Ward No. 3	None		RSP	Chhanda Goswami Sarkar		AITC	Ram Bhajan Mahato		BJP	Binod Kumar Gupta		INC	Roshan Kumar Jha
4	Ward No. 4	None		CPI(M)	Sourove Kanti Sarkar		AITC	Parimal Mitra		BJP	Vivekananda Singh		INC	Chabi Das
5	Ward No. 5	Women		AIFB	Rina Yadav		AITC	Saroj Goenka		BJP	Anita Mahato		INC	Shruti Yadav
6	Ward No. 6	None		CPI(M)	Ashok Narayan Bhattacharya		AITC	Alam Khan		BJP	Noor Jahan Ansari		INC	Md Shahanawaz Hussain
7	Ward No. 7	None	Left Front supports INC				AITC	Pintu Ghosh		BJP	Shakuntala Mishra		INC	Rajeev Kumar Mishra
8	Ward No. 8	Women		CPI(M)	Sabita Mitruka		AITC	Khusboo Mittal		BJP	Shalini Dalmia	INC supports CPI(M)
9	Ward No. 9	None		AIFB	Mohan Lal Mandal		AITC	Pradip Kumar Goyel		BJP	Amit Jain		INC	Harendra Lohia
10	Ward No. 10	None		CPI(M)	Suraj Kundu		AITC	Kamal Agarwal		BJP	Prasenjit Paul	INC supports CPI(M)
11	Ward No. 11	Women	Left Front supported Independent candidate Santosh Devi Singhal				AITC	Uma Goyal		BJP	Manjushree Paul	INC supports Left Front
12	Ward No. 12	None		CPI(M)	Pradip Ghosh		AITC	Basudeb Ghosh		BJP	Nantu Paul		INC	Soubhik Sengupta
13	Ward No. 13	None		CPI	Raman Tuli		AITC	Manik Dey		BJP	Bhushan Jain	INC supports CPI
14	Ward No. 14	Women		CPI(M)	Munmun Bhowmik		AITC	Srabani Dutta		BJP	Madhabi Mukherjee		INC	Shilpi Sarkar
15	Ward No. 15	None		CPI	Habul Ghosh		AITC	Ranjan Sarkar		BJP	Raju Saha		INC	Subin Bhowmick
16	Ward No. 16	None	Left Front supports INC				AITC	Sanjeeb Chakraborty		BJP	Shibendhu Dutta		INC	Sujoy Ghatak
17	Ward No. 17	Women		CPI(M)	Joyita Mitra		AITC	Mili Seal Sinha		BJP	Shipra Mondal		INC	Ruma Nath
18	Ward No. 18	None		CPI(M)	Deepak Kumar Sahani		AITC	Sanjay Sharma		BJP	Debkumar Sengupta	INC supports CPI(M)
19	Ward No. 19	None		CPI(M)	Mousumi Hazra		AITC	Bimal Ghosh		BJP	Tridib Saha	INC supports CPI(M)
20	Ward No. 20	Women		CPI(M)	Anjana Dey		AITC	Abhaya Bose		BJP	Pala Balo Majumder		INC	Shampa Bhattacharjee
21	Ward No. 21	None	Left Front supports INC				AITC	Kuntal Roy		BJP	Suman Sarkar		INC	Tapan Dutta
22	Ward No. 22	None		CPI(M)	Dipta Karmakar		AITC	Dhiman Bose		BJP	Shyama Shankar Rakshit		INC	Sujit Dutta
23	Ward No. 23	Women		CPI(M)	Ayantika Chakraborty		AITC	Lakshmi Paul		BJP	Sharmistha Dey Sarkar		INC	Ayantika Ghosh Guha
24	Ward No. 24	None		CPI(M)	Indrajit Chanda		AITC	Pratul Chakraborty		BJP	Sankar Ghosh		INC	Dipak Kar
25	Ward No. 25	None		AIFB	Dalia Ghosh		AITC	Jayanta Saha		BJP	Santosh Modak		INC	Shankar Choudhury
26	Ward No. 26	Women		CPI(M)	Binapani Dutta		AITC	Sikta Dey Basu Ray		BJP	Anindita Roy Das		INC	Ruchira Malakar
27	Ward No. 27	None		CPI(M)	Sudip Bhattacharjee		AITC	Prasanta Chakraborty		BJP	Ranvir Majumder	INC supports CPI(M)
28	Ward No. 28	SC Women		CPI(M)	Aparna Dalai		AITC	Samprita Das		BJP	Jyoti Prasad Bhagat	INC supports CPI(M)
29	Ward No. 29	None		CPI(M)	Saradindu Chakraborty		AITC	Susmita Bose Moitra		BJP	Prosenjit Saha		INC	Nandita Saha Bose
30	Ward No. 30	Women		CPI(M)	Manju Karmakar		AITC	Sathi Das		BJP	Rinku Dutta	INC supports CPI(M)
31	Ward No. 31	SC Women		CPI(M)	Bani Barman		AITC	Moumita Mondal		BJP	Rinku Bagchi		INC	Navaneeta Tirkey
32	Ward No. 32	None		CPI(M)	Bidhayak Chandra Das		AITC	Tapas Chatterjee		BJP	Kajal Das	INC supports CPI(M)
33	Ward No. 33	None		CPI(M)	Ashim Kumar Saha		AITC	Goutam Deb		BJP	Parimal Sutradhar		INC	Niranjan Acharjya
34	Ward No. 34	SC		CPI(M)	Golap Roy Das		AITC	Biman Chandra Tapadar		BJP	Ratan Das		INC	Swati Sarkar Bhattacharjee
35	Ward No. 35	Women		CPI(M)	Shefali Bhattacharjee		AITC	Sampa Nandi		BJP	Arpita Das		INC	Rita Chaudhury
36	Ward No.36	None		CPI(M)	Barun Talukdar		AITC	Ranjan Sil Sharma		BJP	Partha Baidya	INC supports CPI(M)
37	Ward No. 37	SC		CPI(M)	Nakul Chandra Sarkar		AITC	Alok Bhakta		BJP	Amrit Poddar	INC supports CPI(M)
38	Ward No. 38	None		CPI(M)	Tapas Das		AITC	Dulal Dutta		BJP	Nityananda Pal	INC supports CPI(M)
39	Ward No. 39	Women		CPI(M)	Priya Dey		AITC	Pinki Saha		BJP	Arundhati Jha		INC	Pritilata Roy
40	Ward No. 40	None		CPI(M)	Biplab Dutta		AITC	Rajesh Prasad Sah		BJP	Dilip Roy		INC	Manoj Agarwal
41	Ward No. 41	None		CPI(M)	Naresh Singh		AITC	Shivika Mittal		BJP	Julee Tamang		INC	Kamal Majumdar
42	Ward No. 42	ST		CPI(M)	Sunita Gheesing		AITC	Shobha Subba		BJP	Kersensia Kindo		INC	Chingzong Helena Lepcha
43	Ward No. 43	SC		CPI(M)	Surendra Sharma		AITC	Sukhdeo Mahato		BJP	Sachin Prasad		INC	Santosh Roy
44	Ward No. 44	SC		CPI(M)	Mahua Bhattacharjee		AITC	Pritikana Biswas		BJP	Iti Acharjee		INC	Nabina Sarkar
45	Ward No. 45	Women		CPI(M)	Munshi Nurul Islam		AITC	Bedabrata Dutta		BJP	Dinesh Singh		INC	Bablu Mahato
46	Ward No. 46	None		CPI(M)	Paresh Chandra Sarkar		AITC	Dilip Barman	Didn't Field Candidate				INC	Shikha Roy
47	Ward No. 47	SC		CPI(M)	Mukul Sengupta		AITC	Amar Ananda Das		BJP	Nirmal Bagchi		INC	Sudhan Bhowmick

Result

Party-wise Result


37	4	1	5
AITC	CPI(M)	INC	BJP

Vote share by alliance

AITC (47.24%)

LF (18.28%)

INC (5.32%)

BJP (23.24%)

IND (5.91%)

Others (0.01%)

Ward-wise Result

The Ward-wise Results were announced by the West Bengal State Election Commission after the counting.^[3]

Results
Ward number	Winner				Runner Up				Margin
Ward number	Party		Candidate	Votes	Party		Candidate	Votes	Margin
Ward No. 1		AITC	Sanjay Pathak	3,341		Independent	Birandra Kapoor	2,472	869
Ward No. 2		AITC	Gargi Chatterjee	3,613		CPI(M)	Snigdha Hazra(Halder)	2,557	1,056
Ward No. 3		AITC	Rambhajan Mahato	3,606		BJP	Binod Kumar Gupta	2,046	1,560
Ward No. 4		BJP	Vivek Singh	4,936		AITC	Parimal Mitra	4,867	69
Ward No. 5		BJP	Anita Mahato	2,551		Independent	Rakhi Gupta	2,315	236
Ward No. 6		AITC	Alam Khan	1,929		CPI(M)	Ashok Bhattacharya	1,447	482
Ward No. 7		AITC	Pintu Ghosh	3,206		BJP	Shakuntala Mishra	1,239	1,967
Ward No. 8		BJP	Shalini Dalmia	2,160		AITC	Khushboo Mittal	1,367	793
Ward No. 9		BJP	Amit Jain	2,168		AITC	Pradip Kumar Goyel	2,097	71
Ward No. 10		AITC	Kamal Agarwal	1363		BJP	Prasenjit Paul	1,042	321
Ward No. 11		BJP	Manjushree Paul	833		AITC	Uma Goyal	793	40
Ward No. 12		AITC	Basudeb Ghosh	1,056		BJP	Nantu Paul	791	265
Ward No. 13		AITC	Manik Dey	1,762		BJP	Bhushan Jain	892	870
Ward No. 14		AITC	Srabani Dutta	2,312		BJP	Madhabi Mukherjee	1,102	1,210
Ward No. 15		AITC	Ranjan Sarkar	2,612		BJP	Raju Saha	1,276	1,336
Ward No. 16		INC	Sujoy Ghattak	1,804		AITC	Sanjeeb Chakroborty	980	824
Ward No. 17		AITC	Mili Sil Sinha	1,850		CPI(M)	Joyita Mitra(Jaya)	531	1,319
Ward No. 18		AITC	Sanjay Sharma	1,862		BJP	Deb Kumar Sengupta	1,449	213
Ward No. 19		CPI(M)	Mousumi Hazra	1,208		AITC	Bimal Ghosh	757	451
Ward No. 20		AITC	Abhaya Bose	2,878		CPI(M)	Anjana Dey	1,247	1,631
Ward No. 21		AITC	Kuntal Roy	1,961		INC	Tapan Dutta	1,307	654
Ward No. 22		CPI(M)	Dipta Karmakar	3,776		AITC	Dhiman Bose	2,569	1,209
Ward No. 23		AITC	Lakshmi Paul	3,247		CPI(M)	Sayantika Chakroborty (Mou)	774	1,145
Ward No. 24		AITC	Pratul Chakraborty	2,102		IND	Bikash Sarkar	2,091	11
Ward No. 25		AITC	Jayanta Saha	2,629		BJP	Santosh Modak	1,367	1,269
Ward No. 26		AITC	Sikta Dey Basu Ray	810		BJP	Anindita Roy Das	629	181
Ward No. 27		AITC	Prasanta Chakraborty	2,225		CPI(M)	Sudip Bhattacharjee	1,216	1,009
Ward No. 28		AITC	Samprita Das	1,577		CPI(M)	Aparna Dalai	1,514	63
Ward No. 29		CPI(M)	Sharadidu Chakraborty	2,494		AITC	Susmita Bose Moitra	1,260	1,234
Ward No. 30		AITC	Sathi Das	2,915		CPI(M)	Manju Karmakar	1,056	1,859
Ward No. 31		AITC	Moumita Mondal	4,833		BJP	Rinku Bagchi	2,653	2,180
Ward No. 32		AITC	Tapas Chatterjee	3,516		BJP	Kajal Das	1,211	2,305
Ward No. 33		AITC	Goutam Deb	4,820		IND	Bijan Sarkar	1,384	3,436
Ward No. 34		AITC	Biman Chandra Tapadar	4,531		CPI(M)	Golap Roy	2,662	1,869
Ward No. 35		AITC	Sampa Nandi	4,632		CPI(M)	Shefali Bhattacharjee	2,732	1,900
Ward No. 36		AITC	Ranjan Shil Sharma	5,911		BJP	Partha Baidya	2,457	3,454
Ward No. 37		AITC	Alak Bhakta	4,325		BJP	Amrit Poddar	3,810	515
Ward No. 38		AITC	Dulal Dutta	5,072		BJP	Nityananda Pal	1,860	3,212
Ward No. 39		AITC	Pinki Saha	3,288		IND	Rina Das	1,726	1,562
Ward No. 40		AITC	Rajesh Prasad Sah	6,677		BJP	Dilip Roy	3,733	2,944
Ward No. 41		AITC	Shivika Mittal	3,115		BJP	Julee Tamang	2,785	330
Ward No. 42		AITC	Shobha Subba	3,537		BJP	Kersensia Kindo	3,370	167
Ward No. 43		AITC	Sukhdeo Mahato	3798		BJP	Sachin Prasad	3,103	695
Ward No. 44		AITC	Pritikana Biswas	4,473		BJP	Iti Acharjee	1,589	2,884
Ward No. 45		CPI(M)	Munshi Nurul Islam	2,036		AITC	Bedabrata Dutta	1,933	103
Ward No. 46		AITC	Dilip Barman	9,549		CPI(M)	Paresh Chandra Sarkar	3,983	5,566
Ward No. 47		AITC	Amar Nanda Das	2,309		CPI(M)	Mukul Sengupta	2,172	137

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[1] Bangla, TV9 (14 February 2022). "Siliguri Municipal Election Result 2022: বামেদের হঠিয়ে প্রথমবার শিলিগুড়িতে ফুটল 'ঘাসফুল', দেখুন বিস্তারিত ফলাফল". TV9 Bangla (in Bengali). Retrieved 14 December 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[2] "Gautam Deb to take oath as mayor on Tuesday". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 14 December 2023.

[3] "Home | West Bengal State Election Commission". portal.wbme.org. Retrieved 15 February 2022.

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