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The 2025 Rishikesh Municipal Corporation election [1] [2] [3] is a municipal election to the Rishikesh Municipal Corporation which governs Rishikesh 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |  |  | Shambhu Paswan [5] | |
| 2 | Indian National Congress |  |  | Deepak Jatav [5] | |
| Ward No. | Ward Name | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | INC | ||||||
| 1 | Chandreshwar Nagar | BJP | Kiran Yadav | INC | Pushpa Mishra | ||
| 2 | Triveni Colony | BJP | Roopa Devi | INC | Reena Bharadwaj | ||
| 3 | Durga Mandir | BJP | Priyanka Yadav | INC | Urmila Devi | ||
| 4 | Bhairav Mandir | BJP | Pooja Nautiyal | INC | Suman Rani | ||
| 5 | Pushkar Mandir | BJP | Shiva Prajapati | INC | Devendra Prajapati | ||
| 6 | Adarsh Gram | BJP | Gambhir Mewar | INC | Sunil Kumar | ||
| 7 | Mayakund | BJP | Ajay Kumar Das | INC | Vishal Singh | ||
| 8 | Bharat Mandir | BJP | Vijay Lakshmi Bhatt | INC | |||
| 9 | Mukherjee Marg | BJP | Reena Sharma | INC | Rahul Sharma | ||
| 10 | Sadanand Marg | BJP | Ashwani Dang | INC | Manish Sharma | ||
| 11 | Ashutosh Nagar | BJP | Sumit Tiwari | INC | Bhagwan Singh | ||
| 12 | Pragati Vihar | BJP | Rajendra Bijalwan | INC | Sarojini Thapliyal | ||
| 13 | Valmiki Nagar | BJP | Ekta Khairwal | INC | Meghana | ||
| 14 | Subhash Vankhandi | BJP | Lata Tiwari | INC | |||
| 15 | Maniram Marg | BJP | Prabhakar Sharma | INC | Kuldeep Sharma | ||
| 16 | Tilak Marg | BJP | Pradeep Kohli | INC | |||
| 17 | Ganga Vihar | BJP | Shiv Kumar Gautam | INC | Kamlesh Sharma | ||
| 18 | Shanti Nagar | BJP | Rajesh Kumar | INC | Ajay Diwakar | ||
| 19 | Someshwar Mandir | BJP | Payal Bisht | INC | Radha Devi | ||
| 20 | Ganganagar | BJP | Sandhya Bisht | INC | |||
| 21 | Upper Ganganagar | BJP | Neelam Manori | INC | |||
| 22 | Shastri Nagar | BJP | Reha Dhyani | INC | Sunita Bansal | ||
| 23 | Sarvhara Nagar | BJP | Vikas Tewatia | INC | Veerpal | ||
| 24 | Bharat Vihar | BJP | Tanu Tewatia | INC | Lajwanti Bhandari | ||
| 25 | Awas Vikas | BJP | Jyoti Paswan | INC | Urmila Dimri | ||
| 26 | Shivaji Nagar | BJP | Jayesh Rana | INC | Sardar Gurvinder Singh | ||
| 27 | Bairaj Ward | BJP | Devendra Prasad Dimri | INC | Abhinav Singh Malik | ||
| 28 | Virbhadra Mandir | BJP | Rahul Kashyap | INC | Rakesh Rajbhar | ||
| 29 | Bees Bigha | BJP | Vimal Singh Negi | INC | Sachveer Bhandari | ||
| 30 | Meera Nagar | BJP | Anita Pradhan | INC | |||
| 31 | Bapugram | BJP | Manju Devi | INC | Sakshi | ||
| 32 | Suman Vihar | BJP | Govind Singh Rawat | INC | Bhupendra Kukreti | ||
| 33 | Gita Nagar | BJP | Vijay Badoni | INC | |||
| 34 | Malviya Nagar | BJP | Rajesh Kothiyal | INC | Sumit Chauhan | ||
| 35 | Amit Gram East | BJP | Vipin Pant | INC | Arvind Negi | ||
| 36 | Amit Gram West | BJP | Vijay Jugran | INC | |||
| 37 | Mansha Devi | BJP | Vijendra Mogha | INC | Manoj Barthawal | ||
| 38 | Indira Nagar | BJP | Rajendra Singh Bisht | INC | |||
| 39 | Nehru Gram | BJP | Jagat Negi | INC | |||
| 40 | THDC | BJP | Pushkar Bangwal | INC | Moni Dirwal | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Shambhu Paswan | 23,998 | 41.38 | ||
| Independent | Dinesh Chandra 'Masterji' | 20,978 | 36.17 | ||
| INC | Deepak Jatav | 11,955 | 20.61 | ||
| UKD | Mahendra Singh | 759 | 1.31 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 303 | 0.52 | ||
| Majority | 3,020 | 5.21 | |||
| Turnout | 57,993 | ||||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 40 | 18 |  3 | |||
| Indian National Congress | 28 | 6 |  3 | |||
| Other parties | 7 [a] | 0 |  | |||
| Independents | 69 | 16 | | |||
| NOTA | ||||||
| Total | 144 | 40 | ||||
