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The 2026 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election will be held on December 2026 tentatively to elect 144 members of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) which governs Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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Following is a list of political parties and alliances which may contest in this election:
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Alliance | No. of contesting candidates | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) |  |  | Firhad Hakim | AITC+ | TBD | - | TBD | TBD | ||
| Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) |  |  | Meena Devi Purohit | NDA | TBD | |||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) |  |  | Nandita Roy | Left Front | TBD | |||||
| Communist Party of India (CPI) |  |  | Madhuchhanda Deb | TBD | ||||||
| All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) |  |  | TBD | TBD | ||||||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) |  |  | TBD | TBD | ||||||
| Marxist Forward Bloc (MFB) | - | | TBD | TBD | ||||||
| Revolutionary Communist Party of India (RCPI) | | TBD | TBD | |||||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPI(ML)L) |  | - | TBD | TBD | ||||||
| Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) (SUCI(C)) |  | |||||||||
| Indian National Congress (INC) |  |  | Santosh Kumar Pathak | INDIA | TBD | |||||
| Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP(SP)) | TBD | TBD | ||||||||
| Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) |  |  | TBD | None | TBD | |||||
| Independents (IND) | None | TBD | ||||||||
| Others | TBD | |||||||||
| No. of Voters | No. of Voters who cast votes | Voters Turnout (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Name of the election | Date | AITC+ | NDA | LF | INDIA | IND | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election | 19 December 2021 | 134 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 131 |
| 2024 Indian general election in West Bengal [1] | 1 June 2024 | 95 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 52 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AITC | BJP | INC | CPI(M) | CPI | IND |
| Alliance | Party | Seats | Popular Vote (%) | |||||||||
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| Contested | Won | Change | Earned Second Position | |||||||||
| Party-wise | Alliance-wise | Party-wise | Alliance-wise | Party-wise | Alliance-wise | Change (%) | ||||||
| AITC+ | AITC | |||||||||||
| NDA | BJP | |||||||||||
| Left Front | CPI(M) | |||||||||||
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| RCPI | ||||||||||||
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| SUCI(C) | ||||||||||||
| INDIA | INC | |||||||||||
| NCP-SP | ||||||||||||
| None | Independent | |||||||||||
| Others | ||||||||||||
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