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The 2025 Kotdwar Municipal Corporation election [1] [2] [3] was a municipal election to the Kotdwar Municipal Corporation which governs Kotdwar city. It took place on 23 January 2025.
The election schedule was announced by the state election commission on 23 December 2024. [4]
| Poll Event | Schedule |
|---|---|
| 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 | ||
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| 1 | Bharatiya Janata Party |  |  | Shailendra Singh Rawat [5] | |
| 2 | Indian National Congress |  |  | Ranjana Rawat [5] | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Shailendra Singh Rawat | 38,175 | 52.25 | ||
| INC | Ranjana Rawat | 23,944 | 32.77 | ||
| Independent | Mahendra Pal Singh Rawat | 8,059 | 11.25 | ||
| UKD | Mahendra Singh Rawat | 1,263 | 1.76 | ||
| BSP | Mahendra Negi | 806 | 1.12 | ||
| Independent | Gopal Krishna Barthawal | 426 | 0.59 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 377 | 0.52 | ||
| Majority | 14,231 | 19.48 | |||
| Turnout | 73,050 | ||||
| BJP gain from INC | Swing | ||||
| Party | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 40 | 18 |  6 | |||
| Indian National Congress | 38 | 9 |  4 | |||
| Other parties | 8 [a] | 0 |  | |||
| Independents | 82 | 13 | 2 | |||
| NOTA | ||||||
| Total | 168 | 40 | ||||
