2025 Uttarakhand local elections

The 2025 Uttarakhand Municipal general elections^[2][3] were held on 23 January 2025 to elect members of 100 of the 102 regular municipalities^[f] in the state. Elections in Kichha and Narendranagar will be held later this year along panchayat elections. There are 11 Municipal Corporations, 45 Municipal Councils and 50 Nagar Panchayats^[g] in the state of Uttarakhand. Elections were conducted in all of the 11 municipal corporations, 43 municipal councils, and 47 nagar panchayats.

2025 Uttarakhand municipal general elections

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1382 seats of the urban local bodies in Uttarakhand[a]
Turnout	65.41% ( 4.38 pp)[1]
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mahendra Bhatt Karan Mahara Shishpal Singh Party BJP INC BSP Leader since 2022 2022 2024 Last election 381[b] 215[c] 6[d] Seats won 499 195 4 Seat change 118 20 2   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Sawinderjeet Singh Kaler Diwakar Bhatt none Party AAP UKD Independent Leader since 2022 2022 Last election 2 1 611[e] Seats won 2 1 680 Seat change 69

The BJP won a landslide victory, securing 10 out of 11 municipal coroporations and winning the maximum number of chairperson seats in municipal councils and notified area councils. Congress, on the other hand failed to win any municipal corporation but managed to win some municipal councils and performed well in notified area councils. Independents dominated the election as they won the maximum number of seats owing to their strong performance in the wards of municipal councils and notified area councils. BSP also managed to win 1 municipal council and 1 notified area council, though its number of ward members decreased.

Background

The schedule of the tenure of urban local bodies in Uttarakhand excluding Roorkee, Bajpur, Selakui, Badrinath, Kedarnath, and Gangotri was supposed to end on 2 December 2023. However, elections were delayed due to the delay in delimitation of the constituencies and the publication of rolls. The term of the above-mentioned municipalities also ended on 22 November 2024. The election was held on 23 January and the results were declared on 25 January.^[4] The state election commission announced that elections will be held in all urban bodies barring Kichha and Narendranagar. The elections in Kichha and Narendranagar would be held later alongside the panchayat elections later this year.

Election Schedule

The election schedule was announced by the state election commission on 23 December 2024.^[5]

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

Parties and Alliance

Alliance/Party				Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats Contested
	Bharatiya Janata Party					Mahendra Bhatt	93
	Indian National Congress					Karan Mahra	89[h]
	Bahujan Samaj Party					Shishpal Singh	21

Candidates

Mayoral Election

In a significant move, both major parties denied tickets to their sitting mayors. No incumbent mayor is standing for re-election.

No.	Municipal Corporation	District	BJP candidate	INC candidate
1	Dehradun Municipal Corporation	Dehradun	Saurabh Thapliyal	Virendra Pokhriyal
2	Rishikesh Municipal Corporation		Shambhu Paswan	Deepak Jatav
3	Haridwar Municipal Corporation	Haridwar	Kiran Jaisal	Amresh Baliyan
4	Roorkee Municipal Corporation		Anita Agarwal	Pooja Gupta
5	Kotdwar Municipal Corporation	Pauri Garhwal	Shailendra Singh Rawat	Ranjana Rawat
6	Srinagar Municipal Corporation		Asha Upadhyaya	Meena Rawat
7	Almora Municipal Corporation	Almora	Ajay Verma	Bhairav Goswami
8	Pithoragarh Municipal Corporation	Pithoragarh	Kalpana Devlal	Anju Lunthi
9	Haldwani Municipal Corporation	Nainital	Gajraj Singh Bisht	Lalit Joshi
10	Rudrapur Municipal Corporation	Udham Singh Nagar	Vikas Sharma	Mohan Khera
11	Kashipur Municipal Corporation		Deepak Bali	Sandeep Sehgal

Voter turnout

District	Seats (Mayors and chairpersons)	Turnout (%)
Uttarkashi	5	61
Chamoli	10	66.64
Rudraprayag	5	71.15
Tehri Garhwal	9[i]	61.48
Dehradun	7	55
Haridwar	14	65
Pauri Garhwal	7	66.05
Pithoragarh	6	64.75
Bageshwar	3	67.19
Almora	6	63
Champawat	4	64
Nainital	7	69.78
Udham Singh Nagar	17[j]	70.6
Total	100[k]	65.41

Results

Party-wise

Municipal general election results

Party		Mayors/Chairpersons		Corporators/Ward Members		Total
Seats	+/-	Seats	+/-	Seats	+/-
	Bharatiya Janata Party	42	8[l]	457	110	499	118
	Indian National Congress	27	[m]	168	20	195	20
	Bahujan Samaj Party	2	1[n]	2	3	4	2
	Aam Aadmi Party	0		2		2
	Uttarakhand Kranti Dal	0		1		1
	Others[o]	0		0	1	0	1
	Independent	29	4[p]	651	65	680	69
Total		100[q]	13[r]	1282	152[s]	1382[t]	165[u]

Results of mayors/chairpersons

Division	Seats
		BJP	INC	BSP	IND
Municipal Corporation	11	10	0	0	1
Municipal Council	43	17	12	1	13
Notified Area council	46	15	15	1	15
Total	100	42	27	2	29

Results of ward members

Division	Seats
		BJP	INC	Others	IND
Municipal Corporation	540	261	85	2	192
Municipal Council	444	129	46	0	269
Notified Area council	298	67	37	3	190
Total	1282[v]	457	168	5	651

Municipal Corporation Mayor

Municipal Corporation Mayoral election^[6]

S. No.	Municipal Corporation	District	Winning candidate		Winning party	Runner up candidate		Runner up	Margin
1	Dehradun Municipal Corporation	Dehradun	Saurabh Thapliyal		Bharatiya Janata Party	Virendra Pokhriyal		Indian National Congress	1,05,694
2	Rishikesh Municipal Corporation		Shambhu Paswan			Dinesh Chandra		Independent	3,020
3	Haridwar Municipal Corporation	Haridwar	Kiran Jaisal			Amresh Baliyan		Indian National Congress	28,570
4	Roorkee Municipal Corporation		Anita Devi Agarwal			Shreshtha Rana		Independent	2,851
5	Kotdwar Municipal Corporation	Pauri Garhwal	Shailendra Singh Rawat			Ranjana Rawat		Indian National Congress	14,231
6	Srinagar Municipal Corporation		Arti Bhandari		Independent	Asha Upadhyay		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,639
7	Almora Municipal Corporation	Almora	Ajay Verma		Bharatiya Janata Party	Bhairav Goswami		Indian National Congress	2,479
8	Pithoragarh Municipal Corporation	Pithoragarh	Kalpana Devlal			Monika Mahar		Independent	17
9	Haldwani Municipal Corporation	Nainital	Gajraj Singh Bisht			Lalit Joshi		Indian National Congress	3,894
10	Rudrapur Municipal Corporation	Udham Singh Nagar	Vikas Sharma			Mohan Khera			12,921
11	Kashipur Municipal Corporation		Deepak Bali			Sandeep Sehgal			5,158

Ward-wise results

Corporation Election Data Published by State Election Commission of Uttarakhand^[6]

No.	Municipal Corporation	Total Wards
			BJP	INC	Others
1	Almora Municipal Corporation	40	15	0	25
2	Dehradun Municipal Corporation	100	63	24	13
3	Haldwani Municipal Corporation	60	23	2	35
4	Haridwar Municipal Corporation	60	40	15	5
5	Kashipur Municipal Corporation	40	19	8	13
6	Kotdwar Municipal Corporation	40	18	9	13
7	Pithoragarh Municipal Corporation	40	5	0	35
8	Rishikesh Municipal Corporation	40	18	6	16
9	Roorkee Municipal Corporation	40	24	2	14
10	Rudrapur Municipal Corporation	40	21	14	5
11	Srinagar Municipal Corporation	40	16	6	18
	Total	540	259	86	195

Municipal Council Chairpersons

Municipal Council Chairpersons election^[6]

S. No.	Municipal Council	District	Winning candidate	Winning party		Runner Up	Runner up party		Margin
1	Chiliyanaula	Almora	Arun Rawat		Indian National Congress	Kavindra Kunwarbi		Independent	296
2	Khatima	Udham Singh Nagar	Ramesh Joshi		Bharatiya Janata Party	Rashid Ansari			11,162
3	Sitarganj		Sukhdev Singh			Sarfaraz Ahmed			3,906
4	Gadarpur		Manoj Gumber			Chandra		Indian National Congress	2,579
5	Bajpur		Gurjit Singh Gitte		Indian National Congress	Raj Kumar		Independent	2,651
6	Jaspur		Mohammad Naushad		Independent	Ashok Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party	3,080
7	Mahua Kheraganj		Rizwan Ahmed			Abdul Hasan		Independent	2,622
8	Nagla		Sachin Shukla		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vikram Mahauri			1,856
9	Tanakpur	Champawat	Vipin Verma			Heema		Indian National Congress	1,150
10	Champawat		Prema Pandey			Mamata Verma		Independent	110
11	Lohaghat		Govind Verma			Ranjeet Adhikari		Indian National Congress	1,441
12	Bhowali	Nainital	Pankaj Arya		Indian National Congress	Prakash Chandra Arya		Bharatiya Janata Party	3
13	Nainital		Saraswati Khetwal			Jeevanti Bhatt			3,919
14	Ramnagar		Akram Khan		Independent	Madan Mohan Joshi			1,129
15	Bhimtal		Seema Tamta		Indian National Congress	Kamla Arya			56
16	Kaladhungi		Rekha Katyura		Independent	Bhawana Sati		Indian National Congress	411
17	Gangolihat	Pithoragarh	Vimal Rawal		Bharatiya Janata Party	Narayan Singh Bohra		Indian National Congress	271
18	Dharchula		Shashish Thapa		Indian National Congress	Bela Sharma		Bharatiya Janata Party	248
19	Didihat		Girish Chuphal			Lalit Mohan Kaphaliya		Independent	124
20	Berinag		Hemwanti Pant			Rajni Rawat			73
21	Bageshwar	Bageshwar	Suresh Khetwal		Bharatiya Janata Party	Kavi Joshi		Independent	1,043
22	Uttarkashi	Uttarkashi	Bhupendra Chauhan		Independent	Kishore Bhatt		Bharatiya Janata Party	3,322
23	Chinyalisaur		Manoj Kohli			Jeet Lal			493
24	Barkot		Vinod Dobhal			Atol Singh Rawat			1,933
25	Purola		Bihari Lal Shah		Indian National Congress	Pyare Lal Himani			698
26	Gopeshwar	Chamoli	Sandeep Rawat		Bharatiya Janata Party	Pramod Bisht		Indian National Congress	527
27	Joshimath		Deveshwari Shah		Indian National Congress	Sushma Dimri		Bharatiya Janata Party	446
28	Karnaprayag		Ganesh Chandra Shah		Bharatiya Janata Party	Ram Dayal		Indian National Congress	87
29	Gauchar		Sandeep Singh		Indian National Congress	Sunil Panwar		Independent	187
30	Tehri	Tehri Garhwal	Mohan Singh Rawat		Independent	Kuldeep Singh Panwar		Indian National Congress	3,452
31	Muni Ki Reti		Neelam Vijlwan			Beena Joshi		Bharatiya Janata Party	6,051
32	Chamba		Shobhni Dhanola		Bharatiya Janata Party	Beena Devi		Indian National Congress	1,234
33	Devprayag		Mamta Devi			Won uncontested[7]
34	Vikasnagar	Dehradun	Dheeraj Nautiyal		Indian National Congress	Pooja Chauhan Garg		Bharatiya Janata Party	569
35	Doiwala		Narendra Singh Negi		Bharatiya Janata Party	Sagar Manwal		Indian National Congress	2,634
36	Herbertpur		Neeru Devi			Saraswati Panyuli		Independent	3,881
37	Mussoorie		Meera Saklani			Upma Panwar Gupta			312
38	Pauri	Pauri Garhwal	Himani Negi		Independent	Yashoda Negi		Indian National Congress	228
39	Dugadda		Shanti Bisht			Bhavna Chauhan		Independent	75
40	Rudraprayag	Rudraprayag	Santosh Rawat			Chandra Mohan Semwal		Bharatiya Janata Party	369
41	Manglaur	Haridwar	Mohiuddin			Kainsar		Independent	1,610
42	Laksar		Sanjeev Chaudhary		Bahujan Samaj Party	Jagdev Singh		Indian National Congress	164
43	Shivalik Nagar		Rajiv Sharma		Bharatiya Janata Party	Mahesh Pratap Rana			2,318

Nagar Panchayat Chairpersons

Nagar Panchayat Chairpersons election^{[8][9][10][6]}

S. No.	Nagar Panchayat	District	Winning candidate	Winning party		Runner up	Runner up party		Margin
1	Dwarahat	Almora	Sangeeta Arya		Indian National Congress	Lakshmi Arya		Bharatiya Janata Party	342
2	Chaukhutia		Revti Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party	Pooja Goswami		Indian National Congress	873
3	Bhikiyasain		Ganga Bisht		Indian National Congress	Leela Bisht		Bharatiya Janata Party	448
4	Dineshpur	Udham Singh Nagar	Manjeet Kaur		Bharatiya Janata Party	Won uncontested[11]
5	Shaktigarh		Sumit Mondal		Independent	Vishwajit Haldar		Bharatiya Janata Party	395
6	Kelakhera		Mohammad Safi			Babli		Indian National Congress	42
7	Lalpur		Balwinder Kaur		Bharatiya Janata Party	Shahana Bano		Independent	1,386
8	Mahua Dabra Haripura		Gayatri Devi		Independent	Bahadur Lal			649
9	Sultanpur		Rajeev Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party	Sajid Hussain			1,044
10	Nanakmatta		Prem Singh			Won uncontested[7]
11	Gularbhoj		Satish Chugh		Independent	Sanjeev Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,290
12	Banbasa	Champawat	Rekha Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vijendra Kumar		Indian National Congress	75
13	Selakui	Dehradun	Sumit Chaudhary		Independent	Bhagat Singh Rathore		Bharatiya Janata Party	2,281
14	Lalkuan	Nainital	Surendra Lotni			Asmita Mishra		Indian National Congress	197
15	Munsiyari	Pithoragarh	Rajendra Singh Pangati			Manohar Singh Toliya			527
16	Kapkot	Bageshwar	Geeta Aithani		Bharatiya Janata Party	Dhana Bisht			107
17	Garur		Bhawna Verma		Indian National Congress	Lalita Verma		Bharatiya Janata Party	37
18	Naugaon	Uttarkashi	Vijay Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vipin Kumar		Indian National Congress	223
19	Nandaprayag	Chamoli	Prithvi Rautela		Indian National Congress	Pankaj Sajwan		Independent politician	30
20	Gairsain		Mohan Bhandari			Mamata Negi		Bharatiya Janata Party	460
21	Pokhari		Sohan Lal		Independent	Rajendra		Independent	7
22	Pipalkoti		Arti Nawani			Jyoti Devi Hatwal			194
23	Tharali		Sunita Rawat		Indian National Congress	Suman Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party	544
24	Nandanagar		Beena Devi			Sandhya Devrari			183
25	Kirtinagar	Tehri Garhwal	Rakesh Mohan Maithani		Bharatiya Janata Party	Ramlal Nautiyal		Indian National Congress	795
26	Gaja		Kunwar Singh Chauhan		Independent	Rajendra Singh Khati		Bharatiya Janata Party	156
27	Ghansali		Anand Bisht		Bharatiya Janata Party	Shankar Pal		Indian National Congress	222
28	Chamiyala		Govind Singh Rana			Tajvir Singh		Independent	290
29	Lambgaon		Roshan Rangad			Anujwant Singh			407
30	Tapovan		Vineeta Bisht			Roshni Bisht			266
31	Swarg Ashram	Pauri Garhwal	Bindiya Agrawal		Indian National Congress	Himani Rana		Bharatiya Janata Party	580
32	Thalisain		Beera Devi			Vineeta Devi			27
33	Satpuli		Jitendra Chauhan			Anjana Verma			471
34	Agastmuni	Rudraprayag	Rajendra Prasad			Satish Prasad			18
35	Tilwara		Vineeta Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party	Seema Devi		Indian National Congress	62
36	Ukhimath		Kubja Dharmvan		Independent	Kalpeshwari Devi		Independent	91
37	Guptkashi		Vishweshwari Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party	Smriti Lata			35
38	Jhabrera	Haridwar	Kiran Chaudhary		Indian National Congress	Manvendra Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	860
39	Piran Kaliyar		Sameena		Bahujan Samaj Party	Munasreena		Independent	1,128
40	Bhagwanpur		Gul Bahar		Indian National Congress	Rachit Agarwal		Bharatiya Janata Party	2,250
41	Landhaura		Mohammad Naseem		Independent	Khaleel Ahmed		Independent	1,710
42	Dhandera		Satish Singh Negi			Ravi Rana		Bharatiya Janata Party	152
43	Imlikhera		Manoj Kumar			Shamsher Ali		Indian National Congress	1,117
44	Rampur		Mohammad Parvez			Mohammad Imran		Independent	1,264
45	Sultanpur Adampur		Rubia Anjum		Indian National Congress	Sultan Ahmed		Bahujan Samaj Party	1,086
46	Padali Gujjar		Shahrun			Sunita Singh		Independent	1,824

Analysis of result

The BJP won 10 municipal corporations, 17 municipal councils and 15 notified area councils. Independents won 1 municipal corporation, bagged 13 municipal councils and won 15 notified area councils. Congress drew a blank in municipal coroprations but managed to win 12 municipal councils and 15 notified area councils. BSP won 2 municipal councils. BJP won 259 wards in municipal corporation whereas Independent won 193. Congress won 86. BSP and UKD won 1 each. BJP won 129 wards in municipal councils while Independents bagged 269. Congress won 46. BJP won 67 wards in notified area councils while Independents won 190. Congress won 37 and AAP won 2 seats. BSP bagged 1.

Notes

1. Not a single vote was cast in Ward no 2 of Tharali nagar panchayat and it remained vacant.
2. Includes combined figures of 2018 Uttarakhand local elections and 2019 Uttarakhand local elections's urban bodies.
3. Includes combined figures of 2018 Uttarakhand local elections and 2019 Uttarakhand local elections's urban bodies.
4. Includes combined figures of 2018 Uttarakhand local elections and 2019 Uttarakhand local elections's urban bodies.
5. Includes combined figures of 2018 Uttarakhand local elections and 2019 Uttarakhand local elections's urban bodies.
6. Excludes Badrinath, Kedarnath and Gangotri, which have an interim administration
7. Includes Badrinath, Kedarnath and Gangotri, which have an interim administration
8. The party had fielded 94 candidates, but one of its candidates nomination was rejected. In some seats, the party has declared no official candidate.
9. Excludes Narendranagar
10. Excludes Kichha
11. Excludes Kichha and Narendranagar
12. Includes combined figures of 2018 Uttarakhand local elections and 2019 Uttarakhand local elections's urban bodies.
13. Includes combined figures of 2018 Uttarakhand local elections and 2019 Uttarakhand local elections's urban bodies.
14. Includes combined figures of 2018 Uttarakhand local elections and 2019 Uttarakhand local elections's urban bodies.
15. Includes the seat won by the Samajwadi Party in the last election which it lost in this election.
16. Includes combined figures of 2018 Uttarakhand local elections and 2019 Uttarakhand local elections's urban bodies.
17. Excludes Kichha and Narendranagar.
18. Includes combined figures of 2018 Uttarakhand local elections and 2019 Uttarakhand local elections's urban bodies.
19. Includes combined figures of 2018 Uttarakhand local elections and 2019 Uttarakhand local elections's urban bodies.
20. Not a single vote was cast in Ward no 2 of Tharali nagar panchayat and it remained vacant.
21. Includes combined figures of 2018 Uttarakhand local elections and 2019 Uttarakhand local elections's urban bodies.
22. Not a single vote was cast in Ward no 2 of Tharali nagar panchayat and it remained vacant.