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2025 Raipur Municipal Corporation election

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All 70 seats in the Raipur Municipal Corporation
36 seats needed for a majority
Turnout49.58% (Decrease 28.42pp)
  Majority party Minority party
 
Lotus flower symbol.svg
Hand INC.svg
Leader Meenal Choubey[1] Deepti Pramod Dubey[2]
Party BJP INC
Alliance NDA I.N.D.I.A
Last election 29 34
Seats won 60 07
Seat change Increase 31 Decrease 27
Popular vote 315,835 162,545
Percentage 62.03% 31.92%

Structure of Raipur Municipal Corporation after the election

Mayor before election

Aijaz Dhebar
INC

Elected Mayor

Meenal Choubey
BJP

The 2025 Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) election were held on February 11, 2025,[3][4] to elect the mayor and councilors who will govern Raipur, the capital city of Chhattisgarh, India. This election was part of the broader municipal elections taking place across the state. The counting for the votes and results were declared on February 15, 2025.[5][6]

The Bharatiya Janata Party delivered a remarkable performance in the Municipal Corporation elections. In the mayoral race, BJP candidate Meenal Choubey defeated INC candidate Deepti Pramod Dubey by 1.25 lakh votes, marking the largest victory margin in the entire Chhattisgarh municipal elections. BJP secured a landslide victory, winning 60 out of 70 wards and making a strong comeback in the corporation after 15 years. The Indian National Congress, which had been in power for the past 15 years, managed to win only 7 wards. Several prominent Congress leaders, including former Mayor Aijaz Dhebar and former MIC member Satnam Singh Panag, lost from their respective wards. Additionally, independent candidates secured victories in three other wards.

In March 2025, an independent councilor joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), increasing the party's strength in the corporation to 61.[7] Later another independent councillor Aakash Tiwari rejoined INC, increasing the latter strength to 8 in the corporation.[8]

Background[edit | edit source]

The Raipur Municipal Corporation is responsible for the civic administration and infrastructure development of Raipur. Established in 1867 as the Raipur Municipal Committee, it was upgraded to a Municipal Corporation in 1973. The corporation comprises 70 wards, each represented by an elected councilor. The mayor, who leads the corporation, was traditionally elected indirectly by the councilors. However, in December 2024, the Chhattisgarh state cabinet approved a shift to direct elections for mayors and chairpersons of municipal bodies, allowing citizens to elect these positions directly. On January 7, 2025, the state government of Chhattisgarh finalized the reservation policy for all local bodies, including the Raipur. As per the policy, the mayoral seat of Raipur has been reserved for women.[9]

Under the new policy, the distribution of wards is as follows:[10][11]

Election schedule[edit | edit source]

The State Election Commission of Chhattisgarh announced the dates for election on 17 January 2025.[12][13]

Poll Event Schedule
Notification Date 17 January 2025
Last Date for filing nomination 28 January 2025
Scrutiny of nomination 29 January 2025
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination 31 January 2025
Allotment of Symbols 31 January 2025
Date of Poll 11 February 2025
Date of Counting of Votes 15 February 2025

Candidates[edit | edit source]

Mayoral election[edit | edit source]

No. Party Symbol Candidate's Name
1 Bharatiya Janata Party
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Meenal Choubey[14]
2 Indian National Congress
Deepti Pramod Dubey[15]

Constituency (Ward) wise[edit | edit source]

Constituency (Ward)
BJP INC
1 Veer Savarkar Nagar BJP Vishal Pandey INC Sandeep Sahu
2 Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (SC) BJP Bhagwatram Harvansh INC Ghanshyam Kshatri
3 Sant Kabir Das (SC Woman) BJP Manmohan Manhare INC Pappu Bagde
4 Yati Yatan Lal BJP Nandkumar Sahu INC Kiran Verma
5 Banjari Mata (Woman) BJP Ambika Sahu INC Radhika Nagbhushan Rao
6 Virangana Avantibai (SC) BJP Khagpati Soni INC Radhe Shyam Vibhar
7 Kushabhau Thakre BJP Khemkumar Sen INC Shyam Patel
8 Mahatma Gandhi (OBC Woman) BJP Archi Sahu INC Gayatri Chandrakar
9 Motilal Nehru BJP Gopesh Sahoo INC Gavesh Sahu
10 Rani Laxmibai BJP Devdutt Drivedi INC Manoj Verma
11 Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar BJP Mohan Sahu INC Hemant Patel
12 Kalimata (Woman) BJP Sadhna Sahu INC Priyanka Bhardwaj
13 Rajiv Gandhi BJP Mahendra Khodiyar INC Neetu Ghanshyam Tiwari
14 Raman Mandir (OBC) BJP Suryakant Rathore INC Asif Memon
15 Kanhaiyalal Banjari (OBC) BJP Rajesh Dewangan INC Ghanshyam Devangan
16 Veer Shivaji (OBC) BJP Gajju Sahu INC Vikas Verma (Baba)
17 Thakkar Bapa (OBC Woman) BJP Pramila Sahu INC Dineshwari Annu Ram Sahu
18 Bal Gangadhar Tilak (OBC) BJP Sohan Sahu INC Jitendra Sahu
19 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam BJP Pritam Thakur INC Warren Sahu
20 Ramakrishna Paramahansha BJP Aman Thakur INC Shrikumar Menon
21 Shaheed Bhagat Singh (Woman) BJP Gayatri Chandrakar INC Kumkum Jha
22 Ishvari Charan Shukla (ST) BJP Meena Thakur INC Neelima Singh
23 Shaheed Manmohan Singh Bakshi (SC) BJP Krishna Bharti INC Ronita Prakash Jagat
24 Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel (Woman) BJP Radhika Sahu INC Deep Mani Ram Sahu
25 Sant Ramdas (OBC) BJP Bholaram Sahu INC Tarun Shrivas
26 Danveer Bhamashah (SC) BJP Ramheen Kurre INC Rukhmani Sundar Jogi
27 Indira Gandhi (OBC) BJP Avatar Bagal INC Daljeet Chawla
28 Shaheed Hemu Kalyani BJP Kritika Jain INC G. Shrinivas
29 Guru Govind Singh (SC) BJP Kailash Behra INC Sewak Mahanand
30 Shankar Nagar BJP Rajesh Gupta INC Manoj Masand
31 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (OBC Woman) BJP Pushpa Sahu INC Disha Dhotre
32 Maharshi Valmiki (OBC Woman) BJP Prabha Vishwakarma INC Sangeeta Nishad
33 Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh BJP Pradeep Verma INC Pramod Mishra
34 Ravishankar Shukla BJP Gyanchand Chaudhari INC Kamran Ansari
35 Abdul Hameed BJP Ghanshyam Raksel INC Sheikh Musir
36 Tatyapara (OBC Woman) BJP Shweta Vishwakarma INC Santari Harish Sahu
37 Shaheed Chudamani Nayak (OBC) BJP Deepak Jai Sawal INC Daulal Sahu
38 Swami Atmanand BJP Anand Agrawal INC Vikas Agrawal
39 Thakur Pyarelal (Woman) BJP Suman Pande INC Sangeeta Dubey
40 Deendayal Upadhyay (OBC) BJP Aashu Chandrawanshi INC Shashikant Sahu
41 Pt. Sundar Lal Sharma (Woman) BJP Sarita Akash Dube INC Bharti Sharma
42 Mahant Laxminarayan Das BJP Amber Agrawal INC Banshi Kannauje
43 Bramhan Para (OBC) BJP Ajai Sahu INC Manoj Sonkar
44 Swami Vivekanand Sadar Bazar BJP Murali Sharma INC Rahul Tiwari
45 Maulana Abdul Rauf (Woman) BJP Preeti Partale INC Arjuman Dhebar
46 Civil Lines (SC) BJP Sanjay Hiyal INC Neelam Neelkanth Jagat
47 Mother Teresa (OBC) BJP Santosh Sahu INC Tarachand Yadav
48 Guru Ghasidas (ST) BJP Mahesh Dhruw INC Sheetal Kuldeep
49 Rani Durgavati BJP Dr. Anamika Singh INC Prabhjot Singh Ladi
50 Vidya Charan Shukla (SC) BJP Gayatri Naurange INC Sahdev Vyavhar
51 Lal Bahadur Shastri (Woman) BJP Uttara Singh INC Renu Jayant Sahu
52 Rajendra Prasad (OBC) BJP Vinai Nirmalkar INC Ramkumar Sahu
53 Babu Jagjeevan Ram (SC) BJP Manoj Jangde INC Suraj Jangde
54 Comrade Sudhir Mukharjee (OBC Woman) BJP Sushma Sahoo INC Usha Chandrahas Nirmalkar
55 Ravindranath Tagore (ST) BJP Vinai Pratap Singhi INC Manasingh Dhruv
56 Arvind Dixit BJP Sachin Meghwal INC Surjeet Sahu
57 Bhagwati Charan Shukla BJP Amar Gidwani INC Ejaz Dhebar
58 Shaheed Pankaj Vikram (Woman) BJP Swapnil Mishra INC Monika Jain
59 Moreshwar Rao Garde (Woman) BJP Anjali Goleccha INC Kavita Amit Das
60 Chandrasekhar Azad (OBC) BJP Ramesh Sapna INC Komal Sahu
61 Shyama Prasad Mukharjee BJP Ravi Sonkar INC Brahma Sonkar
62 Shaheed Rajiv Pandey BJP Badri Prasad Gupt INC Devendra Yadav
63 Brigadier Usman BJP Pramod Sahu INC Satnam Singh Panag
64 Vipin Bihari Sur (OBC) BJP Manoj Verma INC Sanjeev Singh Yadav
65 Mahamaya Mandir (OBC Woman) BJP Manju Vyas INC Jaishree Nayak
66 Vaman Rao Lakhe BJP Shyamsundar Agrawal INC Sarvajeet Singh Thakur
67 Bhakta Mata Karma (Woman) BJP Mamta Tiwari INC Purnima Uttam Sahu
68 Dr. Khubchand Baghel (OBC Woman) BJP Durga Sahu INC Dr. Subhashini Devangan
69 Madhavrao Sapre (OBC) BJP Mahendra Ausar INC Hirendra Devangan
70 Sant Ravidas (OBC) BJP Arjun Yadav INC Devendra Kumar Sahu

Results[edit | edit source]

Mayoral election[edit | edit source]

2025 Raipur Municipal Corporation Election: Mayor
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Meenal Choubey 315,835 62.03% Increase 20.60%
INC Deepti Pramod Dubey 162,545 31.92% Decrease 26.65%
Majority 153,290 30.10% Increase 20.60%
Turnout 509,146 49.50% Decrease28.5

Result by party[edit | edit source]

Party Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/−
Bharatiya Janata Party 260,184 51.32% Increase16.32% 70 60 Increase 31
Indian National Congress 165,223 32.59% Decrease7.49% 70 7 Decrease 27
Independents 75,957 14.98% Decrease5.02% 166 3 Decrease 4
NOTA 5,596 1.10% Decrease
Total 506,960 49.58% Decrease28.42% - 70 -

Result by constituency[edit | edit source]

Constituency Winner Runner-up Margin
No. Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %
Raipur City North Assembly constituency
1 Veer Savarkar Nagar Sandeep Sahu INC 4792 50.1% Vishal Pandey BJP 3822 40.0% 970
2 Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (SC) Bhagatram Harvansh BJP 4724 64.1% Ghanshyam Chhatri INC 2460 33.4% 2264
3 Sant Kabir Das (SC) Dr. Manmohan Manhare BJP 2416 52.4% Pappu Bagde INC 2029 44.0% 387
4 Yati Yatan Lal Nand Kishore Sahu BJP 3705 43.6% Kiran Chandrakant Verma INC 2391 28.2% 1314
5 Banjari Mata (Woman) Ambika Sahu BJP 4643 55.9% Radhika Nagbhushan INC 3569 43.0% 1074
6 Virangana Avantibai (SC) Khagapati Soni BJP 3320 47.9% Radheshyam Vibhar INC 1856 26.8% 1464
7 Kushabhau Thakre Khem Kumar Sen BJP 2492 44.0% Babla Mehtaru Dhiwar Independent 1618 28.6% 874
8 Mahatma Gandhi (OBC Woman) Savitri Dhiwar Independent 2509 33.1% Archi Sahu BJP 2396 31.6% 113
9 Motilal Nehru Gopesh Kumar Sahu BJP 3107 39.4% Gavesh Sahu INC 3052 38.7% 55
10 Rani Laxmibai Devdutt Dwivedi BJP 4061 61.8% Manoj Verma INC 1746 26.6% 2315
11 Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Mohan Kumar Sahu BJP 2779 46.8% Hemant Patel INC 1877 31.6% 902
12 Kalimata (Woman) Smt. Sadhna Pramod Sahu BJP 5493 60.3% Priyanka Amitesh Bhardwaj INC 3422 37.5% 2071
19 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Pritam Singh BJP 3348 39.6% Varendra Sahu INC 3183 37.7% 165
20 Ramakrishna Paramahansha Aman Singh Thakur BJP 3647 59.0% Sreekumar Shankar Menon INC 2392 38.7% 1255
21 Shaheed Bhagat Singh (Woman) Gayatri Sunil Chandrakar BJP 5436 67.0% Kumkum Jha INC 1940 23.9% 3496
22 Ishvari Charan Shukla (ST) Meena Thakur BJP 3582 60.3% Neelima Singh INC 2242 37.7% 1340
23 Shaheed Manmohan Singh Bakshi (SC) Ronita Prakash Jagat INC 3359 47.7% Smt. Krishna Panchuram Bharti BJP 3231 45.9% 128
24 Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel (Woman) Deep Maniram Sahu INC 3599 51.1% Smt. Radhika Sahu BJP 3247 46.1% 352
25 Sant Ramdas (OBC) Bhola Ram Sahu BJP 5445 65.7% Tarun Kumar Shriwas INC 2469 29.8% 2976
Raipur City West Assembly constituency
26 Danveer Bhamashah (SC) Ramhin Kurre BJP 4158 51.5% Rukhmani Sunder Lal Jogi INC 2882 35.7% 1276
27 Indira Gandhi (OBC) Avatar Bharti Bagal BJP 3049 44.1% Daljit Singh Chawla INC 2966 42.9% 83
28 Shaheed Hemu Kalyani Smt. Kritika Jain BJP 2658 46.0% G. Srinivas INC 1546 26.8% 1112
29 Guru Govind Singh (SC) Kailash Behera BJP 3928 62.1% Sevak Mahanand INC 2259 35.7% 1669
30 Shankar Nagar Rajesh Gupta BJP 3524 58.0% Manoj Masand INC 2414 39.8% 1110
34 Ravishankar Shukla Akash Tiwari[lower-alpha 1] Independent 2957 45.2% Kamran Ansari INC 1775 27.1% 1182
35 Abdul Hameed Sheikh Musheer INC 2848 45.8% Mohammad Anees Nizami Independent 1478 23.7% 1370
36 Tatyapara (OBC Woman) Smt. Shweta Vishwakarma BJP 4024 52.3% Santari Harish Sahu INC 3008 39.1% 1016
37 Shaheed Chudamani Nayak (OBC) Deepak Jaiswal BJP 3196 42.1% Jitendra Sonkar (Jawa) Independent 2875 37.9% 321
38 Swami Atmanand Anand Agrawal BJP 2805 57.9% Vikas Agrawal INC 1871 38.6% 934
39 Thakur Pyarelal (Woman) Suman Ashok Pandey BJP 4654 53.6% Sangeeta Dubey INC 2080 24.0% 2574
40 Deendayal Upadhyay (OBC) Ashu Chandravanshi BJP 5488 70.0% Shashikant Sahu (Pintu) INC 2206 28.1% 3282
41 Pt. Sundar Lal Sharma (Woman) Sarita Akash Dubey BJP 4852 70.1% Bharti Sharma INC 1945 28.1% 2907
42 Mahant Laxminarayan Das Ambar Agrawal BJP 3906 40.2% Manoj Thakur Independent 1954 20.1% 1952
43 Bramhan Para (OBC) Ajay Sahu BJP 2964 38.8% Alok Kumar Dewangan Independent 1999 26.2% 965
44 Swami Vivekanand Sadar Bazar Murli Sharma BJP 3146 42.3% Satish Jain Independent 2335 31.4% 811
45 Maulana Abdul Rauf (Woman) Arruman Aijaz Dhebar INC 6177 62.4% Preeti Phartade BJP 3617 36.5% 2560
46 Civil Lines (SC) Sanjana Hiyal BJP 2452 49.7% Neelam Jagat (Lalita) INC 1322 26.8% 1130
47 Mother Teresa (OBC) Santosh Kumar Sahu BJP 4401 63.8% Billa alias Tarachand Yadav INC 2381 34.5% 2020
Raipur City South Assembly constituency
13 Rajiv Gandhi Mahendra Khodiyar BJP 5536 69.0% Neetu Ghanshyam Tiwari INC 1341 16.7% 4195
14 Raman Mandir (OBC) Suryakant Rathore BJP 3840 65.3% Asif Memon INC 1950 33.2% 1890
15 Kanhaiyalal Banjari (OBC) Rajesh Kumar Dewangan BJP 4901 66.0% Ghanshyam Dewangan INC 1896 25.5% 3005
16 Veer Shivaji (OBC) Gajju Sahu BJP 5378 64.6% Vikas Kumar Verma (Baba) INC 2065 24.8% 3313
17 Thakkar Bapa (OBC Woman) Parmila Balla Ram Sahu BJP 4664 64.5% Dileshwari Annuram Sahu INC 2248 31.1% 2416
18 Bal Gangadhar Tilak (OBC) Sohan Lal Sahu BJP 3342 49.8% Jitendra Kumar Sahu INC 1836 27.3% 1506
31 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (OBC Woman) Pushpa Rohit Sahu BJP 3733 58.5% Disha Dhotre INC 2370 37.1% 1363
32 Maharshi Valmiki (OBC Woman) Prabha Vishwakarma BJP 3272 61.6% Sangeeta Yaadram Nishad INC 1879 35.4% 1393
33 Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Pradeep Kumar Verma BJP 2957 57.9% Pramod Mishra INC 2081 40.7% 876
48 Guru Ghasidas (ST) Mahesh Kumar Dhruv BJP 2709 57.7% Sheetal Kuldeep Bog... INC 1915 40.8% 794
49 Rani Durgavati Dr. Anamika Singh BJP 3732 52.1% Prabhjot Singh Ladi INC 2765 38.6% 967
50 Vidya Charan Shukla (SC) Gayatri Naurange "Pinki" BJP 2811 52.3% Sahdev Vyavhar INC 1534 28.5% 1277
51 Lal Bahadur Shastri (Woman) Renu Jayant Sahu INC 2100 28.0% Uttara Satish Singh Thakur BJP 1917 25.5% 183
52 Rajendra Prasad (OBC) Vinay Pankaj Nirmalkar BJP 3214 58.1% Raju Sahu INC 1509 27.3% 1705
53 Babu Jagjeevan Ram (SC) Manoj Jangde BJP 4011 46.2% Suraj Jangde INC 2532 29.2% 1479
54 Comrade Sudhir Mukharjee (OBC Woman) Sushma Tilak Sahu BJP 3982 59.3% Uma Chandrahas Nirmalkar INC 2502 37.2% 1480
55 Ravindranath Tagore (ST) Vinay Pratap Singh Dhruv BJP 2639 52.0% Mansingh Dhruv INC 2370 46.7% 269
56 Arvind Dixit Sachin B. Meghani BJP 3446 48.2% Surjit Kumar Sahu INC 1675 23.4% 1771
57 Bhagwati Charan Shukla Amar Gidwani BJP 4900 58.2% Aijaz Dhebar INC 3374 40.1% 1526
58 Shaheed Pankaj Vikram (Woman) Swapnil Mishra BJP 2622 64.9% Monika Pankaj Jain INC 1366 33.8% 1256
59 Moreshwar Rao Garde (Woman) Anjali Golchha Jain BJP 5397 57.8% Kavita Das INC 2727 29.2% 2670
60 Chandrasekhar Azad (OBC) Ramesh Sapaha BJP 3447 36.5% Komal Kumar Sahu INC 2104 22.3% 1343
61 Shyama Prasad Mukharjee Ravi Sonkar (Chand) BJP 4612 50.2% Bramha Sonkar INC 3073 33.5% 1539
62 Shaheed Rajiv Pandey Badri Prasad Gupta BJP 4500 41.1% Devendra Yadav INC 3131 28.6% 1369
63 Brigadier Usman Pramod Kumar Sahu BJP 4877 62.7% Kallu Satnam Singh Panag INC 2736 35.2% 2141
64 Vipin Bihari Sur (OBC) Manoj Verma BJP 3271 42.7% Manoj Chakradhari Independent 2674 34.9% 597
65 Mahamaya Mandir (OBC Woman) Jayashree Nayak INC 3484 53.6% Manju Yadav BJP 2900 44.6% 584
66 Vaman Rao Lakhe Krishna Sonkar (Babbi) Independent 4070 43.4% Shyam Sunder Agrawal BJP 1945 20.7% 2125
67 Bhakta Mata Karma (Woman) Mamta Sonu Tiwari BJP 5328 67.9% Purnima Uttam Sahu INC 1741 22.2% 3587
68 Dr. Khubchand Baghel (OBC Woman) Durga Yaadram Sahu BJP 4387 53.2% Dr. Subhashni Dewangan INC 3484 42.2% 903
69 Madhavrao Sapre (OBC) Mahendra Ausar BJP 4715 55.5% Uttam Kumar Chakradhari Independent 2015 23.7% 2700
70 Sant Ravidas (OBC) Arjun alias Arun Kumar Yadav BJP 4285 67.0% Devendra Sahu INC 2007 31.4% 2278

Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. Leader of Opposition in RMC; won as Independent, but later joined INC

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