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All 70 seats in the Bilaspur Municipal Corporation 36 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2025 Bilaspur Municipal Corporation (BMC) election is scheduled to be held on February 11, 2025, [3] [4] to elect the mayor and councilors who will govern Bilaspur, the second largest city of Chhattisgarh, India. This election is part of the broader municipal elections taking place across the state. [5] [6]
The State Election Commission of Chhattisgarh announced the dates for election on 17 January 2025. [7] [8]
Poll Event | Schedule |
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Notification Date | 17 January 2025 |
Last Date for filing nomination | 28 January 2025 |
Scrutiny of nomination | 29 January 2025 |
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination | 31 January 2025 |
Allotment of Symbols | 31 January 2025 |
Date of Poll | 11 February 2025 |
Date of Counting of Votes | 15 February 2025 |
No. | Party | Symbol | Candidate's Name | ||
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1 | Bharatiya Janata Party | ![]() | ![]() | Pooja Vidhani [9] | |
2 | Indian National Congress | ![]() | ![]() | Pramod Nayak [10] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Pooja Vidhani | 1,52,011 | |||
INC | Pramod Nayak | 85,944 | |||
NOTA | None of the above | 2,892 | |||
Spoiled ballots | Invalid | ||||
Majority | 66,067 | ||||
Turnout |
Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
Bharatiya Janata Party | 70 | 49 | |||||||
Indian National Congress | 70 | 18 | |||||||
Independents | no | 3 | |||||||
NOTA | |||||||||
Total | 70 | ||||||||