2025 Haldwani Municipal Corporation election
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The 2025 Haldwani Municipal Corporation election[1][2][3][4] was a municipal election to the Haldwani Municipal Corporation which governs Haldwani city in Uttarakhand. It took place on 23 January 2025.
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 |
Candidates
Mayoral
| No. | Party | Symbol | Candidate's Name | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bharatiya Janata Party |  |
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Gajraj Singh Bisht[6] | |
| 2 | Indian National Congress |  |
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Lalit Joshi[6] | |
Results
Mayoral election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Gajraj Singh Bisht | 71,962 | 47.38 | ||
| INC | Lalit Joshi | 68,068 | 44.81 | ||
| Independent | R.P. Singh | 2,531 | 1.67 | ||
| Independent | Bhuvan Chandra Pandey | 2,136 | 1.34 | ||
| Independent | Deep Chandra Pandey | 1,597 | 1.41 | ||
| Independent | Manoj Kumar Arya | 1,377 | 0.9 | ||
| Independent | Manoj Kumar Mannu | 1,109 | 0.73 | ||
| BSP | Shiv Ganesh | 1,088 | 0.72 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 823 | 0.54 | ||
| Independent | Naveen Chandra | 772 | 0.51 | ||
| UKD | Mohan Kandpal | 414 | 0.27 | ||
| Majority | 3,894 | 2.57 | |||
| Turnout | 1,58,646 | ||||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
Results by party
| Party | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 47 | 23 |  8 | |||
| Indian National Congress | 11 | 2 | 24 | |||
| Other parties[a] | 5 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Independents | 168 | 34 |  34 | |||
| NOTA |  | |||||
| Total | 231 | 60 | | |||