2008 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election

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Coordinates: 30°18′57″N 78°02′01″E / 30.3157°N 78.0336°E / 30.3157; 78.0336

2008 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election

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All 60 seats in the Dehradun Municipal Corporation
31 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party Third party
  BJP election symbol.png Hand INC.svg Indian Election Symbol Elephant.png
Leader Vinod Chamoli Surat Singh Negi Mohammad Zameer
Party BJP INC BSP
Leader's seat 28 24 1

  Fourth party Fifth party
  Indian Election Symbol Chair.png
Leader Vivekanand Khanduri none
Party Uttarakhand Kranti Dal Independent
Leader's seat 1 6

Mayor before election

Manorama Dobriyal Sharma
INC

Elected Mayor

Vinod Chamoli
BJP

The 2008 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election was a municipal election to the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, which governs Dehradun, the largest city in Uttarakhand.

Vinod Chamoli of the Bharatiya Janata Party was elected mayor. The BJP won 28 of the 60 seats, and the Indian National Congress won 24.

Mayoral election[edit]

2008 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election: Mayor
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Vinod Chamoli 60,867 33.07
Independent Rajni Rawat 44,294 24.06
INC Surat Singh Negi 40,642 22.08
[[Uttarakhand Kranti Dal|Template:Uttarakhand Kranti Dal/meta/shortname]] Vivekanand Khanduri 17,116 9.30
BSP Mohammad Zameer 10,276 5.58
Independent Anjula Karki 2,984 1.62
Independent Aman Singh Pundir 2,228 1.21
Independent Sanjay Goyal 1,590 0.86
SP Subhash Panwar 1,357 0.74
Independent Manju Sharma 1,207 0.66
[[Janata Dal (Secular)|Template:Janata Dal (Secular)/meta/shortname]] Manmohan Singh Negi 668 0.36
Independent Azizur Rahman 444 0.24
Independent Prabhakar Uniyal 389 0.21
Majority 16,573 9.00
Turnout 1,84,062
BJP gain from INC Swing

Position of the house[edit]

Dehradun Municipal Corporation
Party Won +/−
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 28
Indian National Congress (INC) 24
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 1
Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) 1
Independents 6
Total 60 Steady


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