Bihar Municipal election results: The counting of votes for the Bihar municipal election concluded amid tight security arrangements on Friday. The political fate of 11,127 candidates was decided with the declaration of the results.
The result for the post of Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Patna Municipal Corporation has been declared. Sita Sahu has once again won the post of Mayor in the Patna Municipal Corporation elections. She garnered a total of 51,484 votes and defeated her rival Majzabi by a margin of 18,529 votes.
Meanwhile, Reshami Chandravanshi has won the post of deputy mayor. She defeated Anjana Gandhi by a margin of 5,251 votes.
This time, for the first time, the election for the post of mayor and deputy mayor has been done directly by the votes of the general public. Earlier, the mayo and deputy mayor used to be elected by the votes of the ward councillors.
Stray incidents of violence had marred polling for the urban local bodies in the state, with 57.17 per cent of the nearly 62 lakh voters exercising their franchise.
“The counting of votes of 17 municipal corporations, including Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC), two nagar parishads and 49 nagar panchayats began at 8 am across 68 counting centres,” the official of the Bihar State Election Commission said.
Bihar Municipal Corporation Election Results: List of winners
- Ward 1: Chhathiya Devi
- Ward 2: Babita Kumari
- Ward 3: Prabhavati
- Ward 4: Usha Devi.
- Ward 5: Deepa Rani Khan
- Ward 6: Dhanraj Devi
- Ward 7: Amar Kumar
- Ward 8: Rita Rani
- Ward 11: Ravi Prakash
- Ward 12: Savita Sinha
- Ward 13: Jeet Kumar
- Ward 14: Shweta Rai
- Ward 15: Shashi Bhushan
- Ward 21: Sweta Ranjan
- Ward 22: Anita Devi
- Ward 22A: Sushil Kumari
- Ward 22B: Suchitra Devi
- Ward 22C: Anita Devi
- Ward 23: Kumari Sarika
- Ward 24: Gyanvati Devi
- Ward 25: Rajinikanth
- Ward 28: Vinay Kumar Pappu
- Ward 30: Kaveri Singh
- Ward 38: Ashish Kumar Sinha
- Ward 39: Rahul Yadav
- Ward 40: Afsar Ahmed
- Ward 41: Kiran Devi
- Ward 42: Kailash Prasad Yadav
- Ward 47: Satish Gupta
- won from Ward 48:
- Ward 49: Indrajit Kumar Chandravanshi
- Ward 56: Kismati Devi
- Ward 57: Gayatri Gupta
- Ward 63: Faizul Rahman Khan
- Ward 64: Afza Qureshi
- Ward 65: Taruna Rai
- Ward 66: Kanti Devi
- Ward 67: Manoj Kumar
- Ward 68: Sunita Devi
- Ward 69: Manoj Mehta
- Ward 70: Vinod Kumar
- Ward 71: Anjali Rai
“These centers are under multi-layered security cover. The result is expected to be out in the afternoon,” he said.
The second phase of voting was held in 23 districts of the state wherein 61,94, 826 persons exercised their right to franchise. There were 11,127 candidates - 5,154 males and 5,973 females - in the fray for 1,525 posts of ward councillors, 68 posts of chief councillors, and 68 posts of deputy councillors. The counting of votes will take place on Friday, December 30.
The first phase of the polls was held on December 18 for 156 municipal corporation wards. The results were declared on December 20.
The municipal polls were earlier scheduled to be held on October 10 and 20. However, it got delayed after the Patna High Court, in its order, said that the reservations of extremely backward castes and (EBC)/ Other Backward Class (OBC) in the ensuing urban local bodies polls in Bihar are "illegal".
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