2022 Chandernagore Municipal Corporation election

The 2022 Chandernagore Municipal Corporation election was held on 12 February 2022 to elect 33 members of the Chandernagore Municipal Corporation (CMC) which governs Chandernagore and Mankundu, the twin cities in the Hooghly district Indian state of West Bengal.[1]

2022 Chandernagore Municipal Corporation election

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All 33 seats in Chandernagore Municipal Corporation
17 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party AITC CPI(M) Independents
Alliance LF
Last election 30 seats 2 seats 1 seat

CMC Mayor before election

Ram Chakraborty
AITC

Elected CMC Mayor

Ram Chakraborty
AITC

Schedule

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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

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Parties and alliances

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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 33
All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)   Left Front 3
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))   29
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)   None 33
Indian National Congress (INC)   19
Independents (IND) 3

Candidates

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List of candidates
Ward Reservation AITC Left Front BJP INC
# Name SC/Women Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate
1 Ward No. 1 None AITC Papia Singha Roy CPI(M) Chinmoy Biswas BJP Gopal Choubey INC Sukumar Mal
2 Ward No. 2 AITC Mohit Nandi CPI(M) Somnath Ganguly BJP Indrani Mitra INC Sandip Kumar Banerjee
3 Ward No. 3 Women AITC Gitanjali Seth Left Front supported Independent candidate Sipra Dey BJP Sanchita Dey INC supports Left Front
4 Ward No. 4 None AITC Animesh Banerjee CPI(M) Somnath Pal BJP Arunava Sarkar INC Prabir Kumar Das
5 Ward No. 5 AITC Monika Mandal CPI(M) Gopal Shukla BJP Rina Ghosh INC supports CPI(M)
6 Ward No. 6 Women AITC Moumita Banerjee CPI(M) Rekha Tiwari BJP Sipra Ghosh INC Mamata Das
7 Ward No. 7 None AITC Partha Sarathi Dutta CPI(M) Sumit Sarkar BJP Narayan Das INC supports CPI(M)
8 Ward No. 8 AITC Om Prakash Mahato CPI(M) Bappaditya Roy BJP Subrata Singha INC Tapan Dey
9 Ward No. 9 Women AITC Snigdha Ray CPI(M) Suchandra Dutta BJP Ranju Singh INC supports CPI(M)
10 Ward No. 10 None AITC Ajoy Ghosh CPI(M) Sobhanlal Sengupta BJP Samit Bandyopadhyay INC Sunil Chaudhuri
11 Ward No. 11 AITC Md Samad Ali CPI(M) Md Mahboob Alam BJP Sanjoy Kumar Ghosh INC Shek Sabir
12 Ward No. 12 Women AITC Rituparna Shaw Mondal CPI(M) Meena Sharma BJP Kiran Adhikari INC Mithu Biswas(Majumder)
13 Ward No. 13 None AITC Subhojit Shaw CPI(M) Nilmoni Konar BJP Srabani Malik INC Debashish Das
14 Ward No. 14 AITC Ranjit Kundu CPI(M) Oikatan Dasgupta BJP Abhijit Dhara INC Manoj Kumar Bose
15 Ward No. 15 AITC Mamata Dutta Patra CPI(M) Anindita Chattopadhyay BJP Laxmi Pasman INC supports CPI(M)
16 Ward No. 16 AITC Samir Guha Mallik CPI(M) Abhijit Sen BJP Somnath Das INC supports CPI(M)
17 Ward No. 17 AITC Sujit Kumar Nath CPI(M) Asoke Ganguly BJP Soumen Das (Originally:Gokul Chandra Pal)
Candidate Changed after Death
INC Mukul De
18 Ward No. 18 SC AITC Sabita Das CPI(M) Sanjay Das BJP Sekhar Biswas INC supports CPI(M)
19 Ward No. 19 Women AITC Supriti Dutta CPI(M) Pampa Chatterjee Adhikary BJP Sunabda Saha INC Pinki Dey
20 Ward No. 20 None AITC Pijush Biswas CPI(M) Debojit Biswas BJP Runa Kar INC Palash Kanti Roy
21 Ward No. 21 AITC Suvendu Mukherjee CPI(M) Sujit Dey BJP Tapas Ray INC Ashok Roy
22 Ward No. 22 Women AITC Soma Roy Chowdhury CPI(M) Lipika Chakraborty BJP Madhabi Bag Santra INC Soma Roy Chowdhury
23 Ward No. 23 None AITC Prosenjit Mukherjee CPI(M) Tapas Kumar Ghosh BJP Ashutosh Ghosh INC Ashoke Kumar Khan
24 Ward No. 24 AITC Hiranmay Chatterjee CPI(M) Subhadip Dey BJP Avijit Panda INC Nikhil Kumar Ghosh
25 Ward No. 25 Women AITC Indu Barman AIFB Mausumi Kumari Thakur(Sharma) BJP Rita Chowdhary INC supports AIFB
26 Ward No. 26 SC Women AITC Sarada Choudhury AIFB Ritika Choudhury BJP Sandhya Das INC supports AIFB
27 Ward No. 27 None AITC Binay Kumar Shaw CPI(M) Swarup Ghosh BJP Dipa Choudhary INC supports CPI(M)
28 Ward No. 28 SC Women AITC Puja Patra CPI(M) Labanya Ghosh BJP Soma Roy INC supports CPI(M)
29 Ward No. 29 SC AITC Bimal Patra CPI(M) Sunil Kumar Patra BJP Manik Roy INC supports CPI(M)
30 Ward No. 30 None AITC Ram Chakraborty CPI(M) Sk. Luftar Rahaman BJP Prabir Pakira INC Biswajit Mitra
31 Ward No. 31 AITC Munna Agarwal AIFB Arup Kumar Das BJP Nemai Das INC Hiran Kumar Ghosh
32 Ward No. 32 Women AITC Subhra Das CPI(M) Gita Das BJP Priya Patra(Biswas) INC supports CPI(M)
33 Ward No. 33 None AITC Sima Das CPI(M) Dhiren Saha BJP Babla Samaddar INC supports CPI(M)

Result

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Party-wise Result

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31 2
AITC CPI(M)

Vote share by alliance

  AITC (59.42%)
  LF (28.72%)
  BJP (9.80%)
  INC (1.50%)
  IND (0.56%)
  Others (0%)
Alliance Party Seats Popular Vote
Contested Won Change Earned Second Position Votes % Change (%)
Party-wise Alliance-wise Party-wise Alliance-wise
None AITC 32 31   10 2 62,352 59.42  
Left Front CPI(M) 29 2 2   5 24 27,699 26.40 28.72  
AIFB 3 0   1 2 1020 0.97  
Independent(Supported by Left Front 1 0   1 1414 1.42  
None BJP 33 0   1 1 10,283 9.80  
INC 19 0   3 1 1572 1.50  
Independents 2 0   0 597 0.56  
Total Polled Votes / Voter Turnout
Registered Voters

Seat share by alliance

  AITC (93.93%)
  LF (6.04%)

Ward-wise Result

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

Results
Winner Runner Up Margin
Ward number Party Candidate Votes Party Candidate Votes
Ward No. 1 AITC Papia Singha Roy 2776 CPI(M) Chinmoy Biswas 1605 1171
Ward No. 2 AITC Mohit Nandi 1851 CPI(M) Somnath Ganguly 1352 499
Ward No. 3 AITC Gitanjali Seth 1457 Ind (supported by LF) Sipra Dey 1414 43
Ward No. 4 AITC Animesh Banerjee(Babai) 1859 CPI(M) Somnath Pal 611 1248
Ward No. 5 AITC Monika Mandal 1704 CPI(M) Gopal Shukla 803 901
Ward No. 6 AITC Moumita Banerjee(Riya) 1035 CPI(M) Rekha Tiwari 1022 13
Ward No. 7 AITC Partha Sarathi Dutta 1804 CPI(M) Sumit Sarkar(Chotka) 745 1059
Ward No. 8 AITC Om Prakash Mahato 2597 CPI(M) Bappaditya Roy 2283 314
Ward No. 9 AITC Snigdha Ray 2168 CPI(M) Suchandra Dutta 861 1307
Ward No. 10 AITC Ajoy Ghosh 1730 CPI(M) Sobhanlal Sengupta 1052 678
Ward No. 11 AITC Md Samad Ali(Chunna) 2557 CPI(M) Md. Mahboob Alam 1072 1485
Ward No. 12 AITC Rituparna Shaw Mondal 2241 INC Mithu Biswas(Majumdar) 488 1753
Ward No. 13 AITC Subhojit Shaw 1582 CPI(M) Nilmoni Konar 952 630
Ward No. 14 AITC Ranjit Kundu 1486 CPI(M) Oikatan Dasgupta(Top) 1431 55
Ward No. 15 AITC Mamata Dutta Patra 1835 CPI(M) Anindita Chattopadhyay 1341 494
Ward No. 16 CPI(M) Abhijit Sen(Hada) 1549 AITC Samir Guha Mallick(Kalua) 1426 123
Ward No. 17 CPI(M) Asoke Ganguly(Monu) 1018 AITC Sujit Kumar Nath 888 130
Ward No. 18 AITC Sabita Das 2243 CPI(M) Sanjoy Das(Sujoy) 806 1437
Ward No. 19 AITC Supriti Dutta 1926 CPI(M) Pampa Chatterjee Adhikary 1114 812
Ward No. 20 AITC Pijush Biswas 2754 CPI(M) Debojit Biswas(Chandan) 723 2031
Ward No. 21 AITC Suvendu Mukherjee(Shovon) 2922 CPI(M) Sujit Dey 1193 1729
Ward No. 22 AITC Soma Roy Chowdhury 2332 CPI(M) Lipika Chakraborty 930 1402
Ward No. 23 AITC Prosenjit Mukherjee 1896 CPI(M) Tapas Mukherjee 806 1090
Ward No. 24 AITC Hiranmay Chatterjee(Kalu) 1857 CPI(M) Subhadip Dey 348 1509
Ward No. 25 AITC Indu Barman (Saha) 2069 AIFB Mausumi Kumari Thakur (Sharma) 320 1749
Ward No. 26 AITC Sarada Choudhury 1774 BJP Sandhya Das 1078 696
Ward No. 27 AITC Binay Kumar Shaw(Vicky) 943 CPI(M) Swarup Ghosh 251 692
Ward No. 28 AITC Puja Patra 1748 CPI(M) Labanya Ghosh 752 996
Ward No. 29 AITC Bimal Patra(Chhotka) 2180 CPI(M) Sunil Kumar Patra 748 1432
Ward No. 30 AITC Ram Chakraborty 2619 CPI(M) Sk. Luftar Rahaman(Danny) 803 1816
Ward No. 31 AITC Munna Agarwal 1656 AIFB Arup Kumar Das 543 1113
Ward No. 32 AITC Subhra Das 1549 CPI(M) Gita Das 598 951
Ward No. 33 AITC Sima Das (Moni) 1740 CPI(M) Dhiren Saha 1585 155

Bye-Elections

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Date District Body Ward Won Party Runner Up Party Margin
June 26 Hoogly Chandernagore Municipal Corporation 17 CPI(M) AITC 130

References

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  1. ^ "West Bengal: Municipal elections for Asansol, Chandannagar, Bidhannagar and Siliguri to take place on January 22".