Haridwar Municipal Corporation

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Haridwar Municipal Corporation
Type
Type
Leadership
Narendra Singh Bhandari, IAS
Vinod kumar, PCS
Tanvir Marwah, PCS
Structure
Seats60
India Haridwar Municipal Corporation 2018.svg
Political groups
  •    BJP (33)
  •    INC (18)
  •    BSP (1)
  •    IND (8)
Elections
first-past-the-post
Last election
18 November 2018
Meeting place
Nagar Nigam Bhavan, Haridwar
Website
Nagar Nigam Haridwar

The Haridwar Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the city of Haridwar in Uttarakhand, India.

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Structure

This corporation consists of 60 wards and is headed by a mayor who presides over a deputy mayor and 59 other corporators representing the wards. The mayor is elected directly through a first-past-the-post voting system and the deputy mayor is elected by the corporators from among their numbers.

List of mayors of the Haridwar Municipal Corporation

S. No.NameTerm [1] Party
1Manoj Garg3 May 20133 May 20185 years, 0 days Bharatiya Janata Party
Administrator3 May 20182 December 2018212 days Government of Uttarakhand
2 Anita Sharma 2 December 20182 December 20235 years, 0 days Indian National Congress
Administrator2 December 2023Incumbent272 days Government of Uttarakhand

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