2022 Chandernagore Municipal Corporation election

2022 Chandernagore Municipal Corporation election
All 33 seats in Chandernagore Municipal Corporation; 17 seats needed for a majority
CMC Mayor before election; Ram Chakraborty; AITC	Elected CMC Mayor ; Ram Chakraborty; AITC

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]

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:

	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))	Left Front	29
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	None	33
Indian National Congress (INC)		19
Independents (IND)		3

Candidates

List of candidates
#	Name	SC/Women	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate
Ward		Reservation	AITC			Left Front			BJP			INC
1	Ward No. 1	None		AITC	Papia Singha Roy		CPI(M)	Chinmoy Biswas		BJP	Gopal Choubey		INC	Sukumar Mal
2	Ward No. 2	None		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	None		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	None		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	None		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	None		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	None		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	None		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

Party-wise Result


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			Seats					Popular Vote
			Contested	Won		Change	Earned Second Position	Votes	%		Change (%)
			Contested	Party-wise	Alliance-wise	Change	Earned Second Position	Votes	Party-wise	Alliance-wise	Change (%)
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

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	Margin
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


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

References

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

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

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