2022 Siliguri Municipal Corporation election

Municipal elections were held in Siliguri on 12 February 2022 to elect members of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation.

2022 Siliguri Municipal Corporation election
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All 47 seats in Siliguri Municipal Corporation
24 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Goutam Deb Ashok Bhattacharya
Party AITC CPI(M) INC
Alliance – LF UPA
Last election 17 23 4
Seats won 37 4 1
Seat change 20 Increase 19 Decrease 3 Decrease
Percentage 69.64% 14.41% 2.5%
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Party BJP Independents
Last election 2 seats 1 seat
Seats won 5 seats 0
Seat change 3 Increase 1 Decrease
Percentage 9.01%
Seats won in Siliguri Municipal Corporation
Mayor before election

Ashok Bhattacharya
CPI(M)

Elected Mayor

Goutam Deb
AITC

The All India Trinamool Congress party won the election defeating CPI(M) led Left Front with an overwhelming majority.[1] The sitting mayor of Siliguri Ashok Bhattacharya lost his ward to TMC candidate Alam Khan by 482 votes. After the result, Goutam Deb became the new Mayor.[2]

Schedule

Poll event Schedule
Notification date 28 Dec, 2021
Last Date for filing nomination 3 Jan, 2022
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination 6 Jan, 2022
Date of poll 12 Feb, 2022
Date of counting of votes 14 Feb, 2022

Voter Statistics

Parties and alliances

Following is a list of political parties and alliances which contested in this election:

Party Symbol Alliance No. of contesting candidates
All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) Left Front 3
Communist Party of India (CPI) 2
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) 36
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) 2
All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) None 47
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 46
Indian National Congress (INC) 34
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation CPI(ML)L 1
Independents (IND) 30

Candidates

List of candidates
Ward Reservation Left Front AITC BJP INC
# Name SC/ST/Women Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate
1 Ward No. 1 None RSP Biswajit Roy AITC Sanjay Pathak BJP Kanhaiya Kumar Pathak INC Maksudan Sahani
2 Ward No. 2 Women CPI(M) Snighda Hazra(Halder) AITC Gargi Chatterjee BJP Bani Paul INC Tanu Ghosh
3 Ward No. 3 None RSP Chhanda Goswami Sarkar AITC Ram Bhajan Mahato BJP Binod Kumar Gupta INC Roshan Kumar Jha
4 Ward No. 4 CPI(M) Sourove Kanti Sarkar AITC Parimal Mitra BJP Vivekananda Singh INC Chabi Das
5 Ward No. 5 Women AIFB Rina Yadav AITC Saroj Goenka BJP Anita Mahato INC Shruti Yadav
6 Ward No. 6 None CPI(M) Ashok Narayan Bhattacharya AITC Alam Khan BJP Noor Jahan Ansari INC Md Shahanawaz Hussain
7 Ward No. 7 Left Front supports INC AITC Pintu Ghosh BJP Shakuntala Mishra INC Rajeev Kumar Mishra
8 Ward No. 8 Women CPI(M) Sabita Mitruka AITC Khusboo Mittal BJP Shalini Dalmia INC supports CPI(M)
9 Ward No. 9 None AIFB Mohan Lal Mandal AITC Pradip Kumar Goyel BJP Amit Jain INC Harendra Lohia
10 Ward No. 10 CPI(M) Suraj Kundu AITC Kamal Agarwal BJP Prasenjit Paul INC supports CPI(M)
11 Ward No. 11 Women Left Front supported Independent candidate Santosh Devi Singhal AITC Uma Goyal BJP Manjushree Paul INC supports Left Front
12 Ward No. 12 None CPI(M) Pradip Ghosh AITC Basudeb Ghosh BJP Nantu Paul INC Soubhik Sengupta
13 Ward No. 13 CPI Raman Tuli AITC Manik Dey BJP Bhushan Jain INC supports CPI
14 Ward No. 14 Women CPI(M) Munmun Bhowmik AITC Srabani Dutta BJP Madhabi Mukherjee INC Shilpi Sarkar
15 Ward No. 15 None CPI Habul Ghosh AITC Ranjan Sarkar BJP Raju Saha INC Subin Bhowmick
16 Ward No. 16 Left Front supports INC AITC Sanjeeb Chakraborty BJP Shibendhu Dutta INC Sujoy Ghatak
17 Ward No. 17 Women CPI(M) Joyita Mitra AITC Mili Seal Sinha BJP Shipra Mondal INC Ruma Nath
18 Ward No. 18 None CPI(M) Deepak Kumar Sahani AITC Sanjay Sharma BJP Debkumar Sengupta INC supports CPI(M)
19 Ward No. 19 CPI(M) Mousumi Hazra AITC Bimal Ghosh BJP Tridib Saha INC supports CPI(M)
20 Ward No. 20 Women CPI(M) Anjana Dey AITC Abhaya Bose BJP Pala Balo Majumder INC Shampa Bhattacharjee
21 Ward No. 21 None Left Front supports INC AITC Kuntal Roy BJP Suman Sarkar INC Tapan Dutta
22 Ward No. 22 CPI(M) Dipta Karmakar AITC Dhiman Bose BJP Shyama Shankar Rakshit INC Sujit Dutta
23 Ward No. 23 Women CPI(M) Ayantika Chakraborty AITC Lakshmi Paul BJP Sharmistha Dey Sarkar INC Ayantika Ghosh Guha
24 Ward No. 24 None CPI(M) Indrajit Chanda AITC Pratul Chakraborty BJP Sankar Ghosh INC Dipak Kar
25 Ward No. 25 AIFB Dalia Ghosh AITC Jayanta Saha BJP Santosh Modak INC Shankar Choudhury
26 Ward No. 26 Women CPI(M) Binapani Dutta AITC Sikta Dey Basu Ray BJP Anindita Roy Das INC Ruchira Malakar
27 Ward No. 27 None CPI(M) Sudip Bhattacharjee AITC Prasanta Chakraborty BJP Ranvir Majumder INC supports CPI(M)
28 Ward No. 28 SC Women CPI(M) Aparna Dalai AITC Samprita Das BJP Jyoti Prasad Bhagat INC supports CPI(M)
29 Ward No. 29 None CPI(M) Saradindu Chakraborty AITC Susmita Bose Moitra BJP Prosenjit Saha INC Nandita Saha Bose
30 Ward No. 30 Women CPI(M) Manju Karmakar AITC Sathi Das BJP Rinku Dutta INC supports CPI(M)
31 Ward No. 31 SC Women CPI(M) Bani Barman AITC Moumita Mondal BJP Rinku Bagchi INC Navaneeta Tirkey
32 Ward No. 32 None CPI(M) Bidhayak Chandra Das AITC Tapas Chatterjee BJP Kajal Das INC supports CPI(M)
33 Ward No. 33 CPI(M) Ashim Kumar Saha AITC Goutam Deb BJP Parimal Sutradhar INC Niranjan Acharjya
34 Ward No. 34 SC CPI(M) Golap Roy Das AITC Biman Chandra Tapadar BJP Ratan Das INC Swati Sarkar Bhattacharjee
35 Ward No. 35 Women CPI(M) Shefali Bhattacharjee AITC Sampa Nandi BJP Arpita Das INC Rita Chaudhury
36 Ward No.36 None CPI(M) Barun Talukdar AITC Ranjan Sil Sharma BJP Partha Baidya INC supports CPI(M)
37 Ward No. 37 SC CPI(M) Nakul Chandra Sarkar AITC Alok Bhakta BJP Amrit Poddar INC supports CPI(M)
38 Ward No. 38 None CPI(M) Tapas Das AITC Dulal Dutta BJP Nityananda Pal INC supports CPI(M)
39 Ward No. 39 Women CPI(M) Priya Dey AITC Pinki Saha BJP Arundhati Jha INC Pritilata Roy
40 Ward No. 40 None CPI(M) Biplab Dutta AITC Rajesh Prasad Sah BJP Dilip Roy INC Manoj Agarwal
41 Ward No. 41 CPI(M) Naresh Singh AITC Shivika Mittal BJP Julee Tamang INC Kamal Majumdar
42 Ward No. 42 ST CPI(M) Sunita Gheesing AITC Shobha Subba BJP Kersensia Kindo INC Chingzong Helena Lepcha
43 Ward No. 43 SC CPI(M) Surendra Sharma AITC Sukhdeo Mahato BJP Sachin Prasad INC Santosh Roy
44 Ward No. 44 CPI(M) Mahua Bhattacharjee AITC Pritikana Biswas BJP Iti Acharjee INC Nabina Sarkar
45 Ward No. 45 Women CPI(M) Munshi Nurul Islam AITC Bedabrata Dutta BJP Dinesh Singh INC Bablu Mahato
46 Ward No. 46 None CPI(M) Paresh Chandra Sarkar AITC Dilip Barman Didn't Field Candidate INC Shikha Roy
47 Ward No. 47 SC CPI(M) Mukul Sengupta AITC Amar Ananda Das BJP Nirmal Bagchi INC Sudhan Bhowmick

Result

Party-wise Result

37 5 4 1
AITC BJP CPI(M) INC

Vote share by alliance

  AITC (47.24%)
  LF (18.28%)
  INC (5.32%)
  BJP (23.24%)
  IND (5.91%)
  Others (0.01%)

Ward-wise Result

The Ward-wise Results were announced by the West Bengal State Election Commission after the counting.[3]

Results
Ward number Winner Runner Up Margin
Party Candidate Votes Party Candidate Votes
Ward No. 1 AITC Sanjay Pathak 3,341 Independent Birandra Kapoor 2,472 869
Ward No. 2 AITC Gargi Chatterjee 3,613 CPI(M) Snigdha Hazra(Halder) 2,557 1,056
Ward No. 3 AITC Rambhajan Mahato 3,606 BJP Binod Kumar Gupta 2,046 1,560
Ward No. 4 BJP Vivek Singh 4,936 AITC Parimal Mitra 4,867 69
Ward No. 5 BJP Anita Mahato 2,551 Independent Rakhi Gupta 2,315 236
Ward No. 6 AITC Alam Khan 1,929 CPI(M) Ashok Bhattacharya 1,447 482
Ward No. 7 AITC Pintu Ghosh 3,206 BJP Shakuntala Mishra 1,239 1,967
Ward No. 8 BJP Shalini Dalmia 2,160 AITC Khushboo Mittal 1,367 793
Ward No. 9 BJP Amit Jain 2,168 AITC Pradip Kumar Goyel 2,097 71
Ward No. 10 AITC Kamal Agarwal 1363 BJP Prasenjit Paul 1,042 321
Ward No. 11 BJP Manjushree Paul 833 AITC Uma Goyal 793 40
Ward No. 12 AITC Basudeb Ghosh 1,056 BJP Nantu Paul 791 265
Ward No. 13 AITC Manik Dey 1,762 BJP Bhushan Jain 892 870
Ward No. 14 AITC Srabani Dutta 2,312 BJP Madhabi Mukherjee 1,102 1,210
Ward No. 15 AITC Ranjan Sarkar 2,612 BJP Raju Saha 1,276 1,336
Ward No. 16 INC Sujoy Ghattak 1,804 AITC Sanjeeb Chakroborty 980 824
Ward No. 17 AITC Mili Sil Sinha 1,850 CPI(M) Joyita Mitra(Jaya) 531 1,319
Ward No. 18 AITC Sanjay Sharma 1,862 BJP Deb Kumar Sengupta 1,449 213
Ward No. 19 CPI(M) Mousumi Hazra 1,208 AITC Bimal Ghosh 757 451
Ward No. 20 AITC Abhaya Bose 2,878 CPI(M) Anjana Dey 1,247 1,631
Ward No. 21 AITC Kuntal Roy 1,961 INC Tapan Dutta 1,307 654
Ward No. 22 CPI(M) Dipta Karmakar 3,776 AITC Dhiman Bose 2,569 1,209
Ward No. 23 AITC Lakshmi Paul 3,247 CPI(M) Sayantika Chakroborty (Mou) 774 1,145
Ward No. 24 AITC Pratul Chakraborty 2,102 IND Bikash Sarkar 2,091 11
Ward No. 25 AITC Jayanta Saha 2,629 BJP Santosh Modak 1,367 1,269
Ward No. 26 AITC Sikta Dey Basu Ray 810 BJP Anindita Roy Das 629 181
Ward No. 27 AITC Prasanta Chakraborty 2,225 CPI(M) Sudip Bhattacharjee 1,216 1,009
Ward No. 28 AITC Samprita Das 1,577 CPI(M) Aparna Dalai 1,514 63
Ward No. 29 CPI(M) Sharadidu Chakraborty 2,494 AITC Susmita Bose Moitra 1,260 1,234
Ward No. 30 AITC Sathi Das 2,915 CPI(M) Manju Karmakar 1,056 1,859
Ward No. 31 AITC Moumita Mondal 4,833 BJP Rinku Bagchi 2,653 2,180
Ward No. 32 AITC Tapas Chatterjee 3,516 BJP Kajal Das 1,211 2,305
Ward No. 33 AITC Goutam Deb 4,820 IND Bijan Sarkar 1,384 3,436
Ward No. 34 AITC Biman Chandra Tapadar 4,531 CPI(M) Golap Roy 2,662 1,869
Ward No. 35 AITC Sampa Nandi 4,632 CPI(M) Shefali Bhattacharjee 2,732 1,900
Ward No. 36 AITC Ranjan Shil Sharma 5,911 BJP Partha Baidya 2,457 3,454
Ward No. 37 AITC Alak Bhakta 4,325 BJP Amrit Poddar 3,810 515
Ward No. 38 AITC Dulal Dutta 5,072 BJP Nityananda Pal 1,860 3,212
Ward No. 39 AITC Pinki Saha 3,288 IND Rina Das 1,726 1,562
Ward No. 40 AITC Rajesh Prasad Sah 6,677 BJP Dilip Roy 3,733 2,944
Ward No. 41 AITC Shivika Mittal 3,115 BJP Julee Tamang 2,785 330
Ward No. 42 AITC Shobha Subba 3,537 BJP Kersensia Kindo 3,370 167
Ward No. 43 AITC Sukhdeo Mahato 3798 BJP Sachin Prasad 3,103 695
Ward No. 44 AITC Pritikana Biswas 4,473 BJP Iti Acharjee 1,589 2,884
Ward No. 45 CPI(M) Munshi Nurul Islam 2,036 AITC Bedabrata Dutta 1,933 103
Ward No. 46 AITC Dilip Barman 9,549 CPI(M) Paresh Chandra Sarkar 3,983 5,566
Ward No. 47 AITC Amar Nanda Das 2,309 CPI(M) Mukul Sengupta 2,172 137

References

  1. ^ Bangla, TV9 (14 February 2022). "Siliguri Municipal Election Result 2022: বামেদের হঠিয়ে প্রথমবার শিলিগুড়িতে ফুটল 'ঘাসফুল', দেখুন বিস্তারিত ফলাফল". TV9 Bangla (in Bengali). Retrieved 14 December 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Gautam Deb to take oath as mayor on Tuesday". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Home | West Bengal State Election Commission". portal.wbme.org. Retrieved 15 February 2022.