Under the first-phase, polling was held in 11 municipal corporations, 36 nagar palikas and 86 nagar parishads. The counting for the first-phase was held on July 17. (Representational image/Express)MP Municipal Election Phase 2 Results Highlights: The Congress and BJP win two mayoral seats each in the second phase of MP Municipal Elections.
Counting for the second phase of urban local body elections held in the state on July 13 was underway from 9 am on Wednesday. Under the second-phase, polling was held in five municipal corporations, 40 nagar palikas and 169 nagar parishads. The elections were held on party lines in these local bodies spread in 43 districts for the posts of mayor and corporators.
The Congress and BJP are set to face off in Katni, Ratlam, Dewas, Rewa and Morena for the mayoral and corporator posts. The two-phase local body elections in the state for a total of 413 municipalities, including 16 Nagar Palika Nigam, 99 Nagar Palika Parishads and 298 Nagar Parishads were held on July 6 and July 13.
With the counting of votes for the second phase of the local bodies polls in Madhya Pradesh getting over on Wednesday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) termed its performance as "historic", saying that it has won over 300 out of 347 urban civic bodies.
The Congress also said this was the party's best performance in this civic bodies poll in more than two decades.
Both the parties celebrated their performances.
The three-tier urban civic body elections in MP for 347 municipal bodies, including 16 municipal corporations, 76 municipal councils and 255 Nagar Parishads, were held in two phases – on July 6 and 13. The first phase results were declared on Sunday, while the counting of votes for the second phase of polling was held on Wednesday.(PTI)
Preeti Suri got the mayor seat as an independent candidate in Katni consistuency gaining votes to overtake BJP's Jyoti Dikshit by claiming 45648 votes.
Mukesh Tatwal in Ujjain while Sangita in Sagar shall be instated as mayors as BJP party managed to secure 134094 votes and 70653 votes in these districts respectively.
Malti Ray representing BJP in Bhopal was elected as mayor with a mjority of 461335 votes. In Gwalior, INC registered a win with Shobha Sinh claiming 235154 votes.
The ruling BJP and opposition Congress won two mayor's seats each in Madhya Pradesh while an independent candidate won another post on Wednesday, officials said.
Elections for these posts had been held in the second phase, on July 13.
Overall, of 16 mayoral posts in the state, the BJP has won nine and Congress five seats. One seat went to AAP and another to Independent.(PTI)
The All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Wednesday won three seats in the civic bodies elections in Madhya Pradesh, taking its overall tally in the local polls held earlier this month in the state to seven.
In the first phase of the local polls held on July 6, the Asaduddin Owaisi-led party had emerged victorious on four seats, while in the second phase of these elections conducted on July 13, the counting of votes for which is currently underway, it won three seats so far, officials said.
The Hyderabad-headquartered party won these three seats in the Khargone Municipal Council (KMC).
This is for the first time that the AIMIM contested civic body polls in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Madhya Pradesh.(PTI)
AAP claims mayor seat in Singrauli. Rani Agarwal of AAP has won with 34585 votes with Chandra Pratap Vishwakarma of BJP as the trailing candidate.
The BJP and Congress were ahead in two mayoral seats each and an independent candidate in one seat, in the latest counting trends on Wednesday for polls in five Madhya Pradesh municipal corporations.
Counting for the second phase of urban local body elections held in the state on July 13 was underway from 9 am on Wednesday. Under the second-phase, polling was held in five municipal corporations, 40 nagar palikas and 169 nagar parishads.
The elections were held on party lines in these local bodies spread in 43 districts for the posts of mayor and corporators. As per the latest trends, Congress's Rewa mayoral candidate Ajay Mishra Baba was leading by a margin of 7,867 votes over BJP's Praboh Vyas after the fifth round of counting. (PTI)
The Congress and BJP were ahead in two mayoral seats each and an independent candidate in one seat, as per initial counting trends on Wednesday for polls in five Madhya Pradesh municipal corporations.
Counting for the second phase of urban local body elections held in the state on July 13 was underway from 9 am on Wednesday. Under the second-phase, polling was held in five municipal corporations, 40 nagar palikas and 169 nagar parishads. The elections were held on party lines in these local bodies spread in 43 districts for the posts of mayor and corporators.
As per the initial trends, Congress mayoral candidate Sharda Solanki in Morena was ahead of BJP's Mukesh Meena Jatav by a margin of 3,475 votes after the second round of counting, a poll official said. In Rewa, Congress's Ajay Mishra Baba was leading by a margin of 2,766 votes over BJP's Praboh Vyas. (PTI)
While the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the first phase of the urban local body polls in Madhya Pradesh clinching nearly 100 of 133 civic bodies and the principal Opposition Congress won three mayoral seats, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) – who made their dubuts in the state civic polls – opened their accounts and impacted the polls in significant ways.
In a state whose politics has always been a bipolar affair involving the BJP and the Congress, the AAP wrested one mayoral seat from the saffron party, while the AIMIM, picking four corporator seats, proved to be a spoilsport for the Congress in the Burhanpur mayoral poll by splitting votes that enabled the BJP to squeeze through.
In the Singrauli mayoral poll, the AAP’s Rani Agarwal, riding on the plank of free water, effective governance and a corruption-free corporation, trounced the BJP’s Chandrapratap Vishwakarma by 9,352 votes. The AAP also managed to win 18 corporator seats across several civic bodies. Read more.
Madhya Pradesh’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised control over 100 of 133 local bodies, the poll results for which were announced Sunday. But the victory was dampened by the party losing its hold over four mayoral posts after winning seven of the 11 Nagar Nigams and winning the other two by a slim margin.
The results for the 133 local bodies — including 11 municipal corporations, 36 municipal councils and 86 town councils — were announced Sunday during the first phase of counting. The second phase of counting will be held on July 20.
Mayors for 11 municipal councils are being elected directly while the chairperson of the local body will be elected by councilors indirectly in municipal councils. Of the 11 municipal corporations, the BJP won the mayor’s seat in seven. Congress got three mayor’s posts and Aam Aadmi Party one. Read more.
Counting for the second phase of urban local body elections in Madhya Pradesh commenced at 9 am on Wednesday, a poll official told PTI. Under the second-phase, polling was held on July 13 in five municipal corporations, 40 nagar palikas and 169 nagar parishads.The elections were held on party lines in these local bodies spread in 43 districts for the posts of mayor and corporators. (PTI)