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The 2025 Almora Municipal Corporation election [1] [2] [3] is a municipal election to the Almora Municipal Corporation which governs Almora city in Uttarakhand. It was held on 23 January 2025.
The election schedule was announced by the state election commission on 23 December 2024. [4]
| Poll Event | Schedule |
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| 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 |
| No. | Party | Symbol | Candidate's Name | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bharatiya Janata Party |  |  | Ajay Verma [5] | |
| 2 | Indian National Congress |  |  | Bhairav Goswami [6] | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Ajay Verma | 8,788 | 56.95 | ||
| INC | Bhairav Goswami | 6,309 | 40.88 | ||
| Independent | Aman Ansari | 221 | 1.43 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 114 | 0.74 | ||
| Majority | 2,479 | 16.07 | |||
| Turnout | 15,432 | ||||
| BJP win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 29 | 15 | New | |||
| Independents | 118 | 25 | New | |||
| NOTA | ||||||
| Total | 100% | 40 | ||||
