2022 Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation election

The 2022 Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation election was held on 12 February 2022 to elect 41 members of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) which governs Bidhannagar, the Satellite city of the capital city of Indian state of West Bengal, Kolkata in the district of North 24 Parganas.

2022 Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation election

12 February 2022 (2022-02-12)
All 41 seats in Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation 21 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party AITC CPI(M) INC Alliance LF Last election 40 seats 0 seats 1 seats   Fourth party Fifth party   Party BJP Independents Last election 0 Seat 1 seat
BMC Mayor before election Krishna Chakraborty AITC Elected BMC Mayor Krishna Chakraborty AITC

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

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 Trinamool Congress (AITC)		None	41
	All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)		Left Front	2
	Communist Party of India (CPI)			2
	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))			35
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)		None	41
	Indian National Congress (INC)			29
	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) (SUCI)			2
	Independents (IND)			53

Candidates

List of candidates

Ward		Reservation	AITC			Left Front			BJP			INC
#	Name	SC/ST/Women	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate
1	Ward No. 1	None		AITC	PINAKI NANDI		CPI(M)	Ujjwal KANTI Paul		BJP	Ashutosh Paul		INC	Alamgir Hossain
2	Ward No. 2	Women		AITC	Rahima Bibi Mondal		CPI(M)	Susmita Fouzder		BJP	Dola Ghosh		INC	Zeba Shaheen
3	Ward No. 3	None		AITC	Aratrika Bhattacharjee		CPI(M)	Arafat Ali Mondal		BJP	Abhijit Das		INC	Monsur Ali Mondal
4	Ward No. 4			AITC	SK RAFIQUEL ISLAM l		CPI(M)	Ashim Kumar Ghosh		BJP	Abhijeet Kumar Shaw		INC	Surendra Singh
5	Ward No. 5	Women		AITC	Nandini Banerjee		CPI(M)	Priyanka Barman		BJP	Sikha Das		INC	Sandhya Roy
6	Ward No. 6	None		AITC	Samrat Barua		CPI(M)	Debashis Hazra		BJP	Raju Singh		INC	Sk Azar Uddin
7	Ward No. 7			AITC	Debraj Chakraborty		CPI(M)	Hannan Ali Ostagar		BJP	Sanjoy Das		INC	Jamil Ahemad
8	Ward No. 8	Women		AITC	Suparna Ghosh Paul		CPI(M)	Sathi Chakraborty		BJP	Swagata Deb	INC supports CPI(M)
9	Ward No. 9	None		AITC	Samaraesh Chakraborty		CPI(M)	Rabin Mondal		BJP	Bhaskar Naskar	INC supports CPI(M)
10	Ward No. 10			AITC	Pranay Kumar Ray		CPI(M)	Amarnath Guha		BJP	Amor Dutta	INC supports CPI(M)
11	Ward No. 11	SC		AITC	Anita Biswas		CPI(M)	Debasish Kumar Naskar		BJP	Suvojit Das		INC	Sudip Mondal
12	Ward No. 12	Women		AITC	Salima Bibi Mondal		CPI(M)	Rinku Rahaman		BJP	Taniya Singha Roy		INC	Rumina Sultana
13	Ward No. 13	None		AITC	Md. Sirajul Haque		CPI(M)	Md. Mohasin Ahmed		BJP	Tinku Biswas		INC	Md. Surabuddin Peada
14	Ward No. 14	SC Women		AITC	Sikha Mohanta		AIFB	Anima Mondal		BJP	Tumpa Howlader		INC	Gita Sardar
15	Ward No. 15	None		AITC	Sujit Mondal		CPI(M)	Sajal Kumar Saha		BJP	Tapan Ghosh	INC supports CPI(M)
16	Ward No. 16	Women		AITC	Jayashri Bagui	Left Front supported Independent candidate Swagata Mazumder				BJP	Susmita Sen		INC	Kakali Bagui Ghosh
17	Ward No. 17	None		AITC	Ashutosh Nandi	Left Front supported Independent candidate Shambu Nath Dey				BJP	Arun Kumar Hait		INC	Samir Roy
18	Ward No. 18			AITC	Indranath Bagui		CPI(M)	Nilratan Roy		BJP	Anupam Banik		INC	Debasis Chatterjee
19	Ward No. 19	Women		AITC	Piyali Sarkar		CPI(M)	Mithu Dutta		BJP	Sunita Ghosh	INC supports CPI(M)
20	Ward No. 20	SC		AITC	Prosenjit Nag		CPI(M)	Jayanta Das		BJP	Debrabata Haldar	INC supports CPI(M)
21	Ward No. 21	None		AITC	Monoranjan Ghosh		CPI(M)	Sanjoy Biswas		BJP	Nihar Sarkar	INC supports CPI(M)
22	Ward No. 22	SC		AITC	Atindra Prasad Sana		CPI(M)	Soumya Kanti Roy		BJP	Sujan Krishna Howladar		INC	Raman Poddar
23	Ward No. 23	SC Women		AITC	Jhunku Mondal		CPI(M)	Debika Das Mondal		BJP	Saraswati Biswas	INC supports CPI(M)
24	Ward No. 24	None		AITC	Manish Mukherjee		CPI(M)	Aloke Kumar Roy		BJP	Swapan Sikder		INC	Prabhat Saha
25	Ward No. 25	Women		AITC	Purnima Naskar		CPI(M)	Soma Mitra		BJP	Dipa Naskar		INC	Mira Poddar
26	Ward No. 26	None		AITC	Susobhan Mondal		CPI(M)	Gouri Nandi		BJP	Sadhana Dhali		INC	Jaydeb Dey
27	Ward No. 27			AITC	Bina Mondal		CPI(M)	Subham Das		BJP	Sankar Mondal	INC supports CPI(M)
28	Ward No. 28	ST		AITC	Prabir Sardar		CPI(M)	Belpati Munda		BJP	Indrajit Prasad Singh		INC	Kesto Munda
29	Ward No. 29	Women		AITC	Krishna Chakraborty		CPI(M)	Saswati Dutta		BJP	Mitali Mukherjee		INC	Sikha Bhattacharjee
30	Ward No. 30	None		AITC	Anita Mondal		CPI(M)	Arindam Das		BJP	Uma Shankar Ghoshdastidar		INC	Sagar Dutta
31	Ward No. 31			AITC	Sabyasachi Dutta		AIFB	Bimalesh Thakur		BJP	Devasis Jana		INC	Partha Dey
32	Ward No. 32	Women		AITC	Kakali Saha		CPI(M)	Sukanta Banerjee		BJP	Piyali Basu		INC	Indrani Bhattacharya
							CPI	Suhita Basu Mallik
33	Ward No. 33	None		AITC	Banibrata Banerjee		CPI(M)	Basab Basak		BJP	Molly Paul		INC	Susanta Mondal
34	Ward No. 34			AITC	Alokananda Das		CPI(M)	Kamal Kumar Patra		BJP	Kaushik Biswas		INC	Mriganka Mallick
35	Ward No. 35	SC		AITC	Jaydev Naskar		CPI(M)	Santanu Bar		BJP	Biswanath Panja		INC supports CPI(M)
36	Ward No.36	Women		AITC	Chamili Naskar		CPI(M)	Chandana Mondal		BJP	Shampa Debnath		INC	Shibani Munda
37	Ward No. 37	SC Women		AITC	Minu Das Chakraborty		CPI(M)	Soma Pramanik Ghosh		BJP	Promita Saha		INC supports CPI(M)
38	Ward No. 38	SC		AITC	Alo Dutta		CPI(M)	Anup Malik		BJP	Mintu Maity		INC supports CPI(M)
39	Ward No. 39	None		AITC	Rajesh Chirimar		CPI(M)	Radhanath Chand		BJP	Soumyadeep Bhattacharya		INC	Dilip Kumar Bhattacharya
40	Ward No. 40			AITC	Tulsi Sinha Roy		CPI	Sumanta Basu		BJP	Mrinmoy Kanti Sorcar		INC	Ashok Kundu
41	Ward No. 41	Women		AITC	Ratna Bhaumik		CPI(M)	Sutanuka bandopadhyay		BJP	Priyanka Chakraborty		INC	Pooja Parajita Roychoudhury

Result

Party-wise Result

39	1	1
AITC	INC	IND

Vote share by alliance

  AITC (74.10%)

  LF (10.95%)

  INC (3.42%)

  BJP (8.20%)

  IND (3.28%)

  Others (0.04%)

References

The West Bengal State Election Commission (WBSEC) on Thursday issued a notification to announce that elections to 108 municipalities in the state will be held on February 27. The notification, however, did not mention the date of vote counting, which, the officials said, will be declared later.

Elections to 108 municipalities will be held on February 27. The date of counting will be announced later. The entire election process will be completed by March 8,” an SEC official said. In 20 districts — Darjeeling, Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri, Uttar Dinajpur, Dakshin Dinajpur, Malda, Murshidabad, Nadia, North 24-Parganas, South 24-Parganas, Howrah, Hooghly, Purba Medinipur, Paschim Medinipur, Jhargram, Purulia, Bankura, Purba Bardhaman, Birbhum — 108 municipal bodies will go to polls. The list of candidates for elections to 107 municipalities, scheduled on February 27, has led to a major tussle in the Trinamool Congress (TMC).It all started with Kalyan Banerjee, senior leader and MP of TMC, openly criticising national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee. Young leaders of the party then started a campaign against Kalyan Banerjee. Although the party disciplinary committee has warned both the sections, the conflict doesn't seem to be ending.