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All 70 seats in the Raipur Municipal Corporation 36 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Structure of Raipur Municipal Corporation after the election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2025 Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) election were held on February 11, 2025 , [3] [4] to elect the mayor and councilors who will govern Raipur, the capital city of Chhattisgarh, India. This election is part of the broader municipal elections taking place across the state. The counting for the votes and results were declared on February 15, 2025 . [5] [6]
Contents
- Background
- Election schedule
- Candidates
- Mayoral election
- Constituency (Ward) wise
- Results
- Mayoral election 2
- Result by party
- References
The Bharatiya Janata Party delivered a remarkable performance in the Municipal Corporation elections. In the mayoral race, BJP candidate Meenal Choubey defeated INC candidate Deepti Pramod Dubey by 1.25 lakh votes, marking the largest victory margin in the entire Chhattisgarh municipal elections. BJP secured a landslide victory, winning 60 out of 70 wards and making a strong comeback in the corporation after 15 years. The Indian National Congress, which had been in power for the past 15 years, managed to win only 7 wards. Several prominent Congress leaders, including former Mayor Aijaz Dhebar and former MIC member Satnam Singh Panag, lost from their respective wards. Additionally, independent candidates secured victories in three other wards.
In March 2025, an independent councilor joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), increasing the party's strength in the corporation to 61. [7] Later another independent councillor Aakash Tiwari rejoined INC, increasing the latter strength to 8 in the corporation. [8]
