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Haldwani Municipal Corporation

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Haldwani Municipal Corporation

हल्द्वानी नगर निगम

Haldwani Nagar Nigam
Unicameral Legislature
Type
Type
Leadership
Gajraj Singh Bisht, BJP
since 7 February 2025
Vishal Mishra, IAS
Structure
Seats60
Political groups
Government (23)
  •   BJP (23)

Opposition (3)

Others (34)

Elections
first-past-the-post
Last election
23 January 2025
Next election
2030
Meeting place
Nagar Nigam Bhavan, Haldwani
Website
Nagar Nigam Haldwani

The Haldwani Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the city of Haldwani in Uttarakhand, India.[1]

Structure

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This corporation consists of 60 wards and is headed by a mayor who presides over a deputy mayor and 73 other corporators out of which 60 are elected directly through electoral constituencies called the wards. Another 10 are appointed by the governor of the state on recommendation of the state cabinet. And remaining four are the representatives of 3 MLAs and 1 MP who represents the city in state and central legislatures. The mayor is elected directly through a first-past-the-post voting system and the deputy mayor is elected by the corporators from among their numbers.

List of mayors

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S. No. Name Term Party
1 Jogendra Pal Singh Rautela 3 May 2013 3 May 2018 5 years, 0 days Bharatiya Janata Party
Administrator 3 May 2018 2 December 2018 212 days Government of Uttarakhand
(1) Jogendra Pal Singh Rautela 2 December 2018 2 December 2023 5 years, 0 days Bharatiya Janata Party
Administrator 3 December 2023 7 February 2025 1 year, 67 days Government of Uttarakhand
2 Gajraj Singh Bisht 7 February 2025 Incumbent 21 days Bharatiya Janata Party

Current members

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Haldwani Municipal Corporation has a total of 60 members or corporators, who are directly elected after a term of 5 years. The council is led by the Mayor. The latest elections were held in 23 January 2025. The current mayor of Haldwani is Gajraj Singh Bisht of the Bharatiya Janata Party.[2]

Mayor: Gajraj Singh Bisht
Ward No Ward Name Name of Corporator Party[3] Remarks
1 Ranibagh Kathgodam Babli Verma Independent
2 Kathgodam Damuwadhunga Nirmala Tiwari Independent
3 Haripur Colonel Dharamveer Bharatiya Janata Party
4 Awas Vikas Hema Bhatt Independent
5 Polysheet Neha Adhikari Bharatiya Janata Party
6 Subhash Nagar Govindpura Pankaj Tripathi Independent
7 Bhotiaparav Gorakhpur Sachin Tiwari Bharatiya Janata Party
8 Jagdamba Nagar Kulyalpura Ravi Valmiki Uttarakhand Kranti Dal
9 Talli Bamori Rajendra Singh Jeena Independent
10 Malla Gorakhpur Beena Chauhan Independent
11 Talla Gorakhpur Ravi Joshi Independent
12 Rajendra Nagar Priti Arya Independent
13 Rajpura Padav Munni Kashyap Independent
14 Tanakpur Road Dharamveer Indian National Congress
15 Kidwai Nagar Salman Siddiqui Independent
16 Bazaar Kshetra Prem Prakash Belwal Bharatiya Janata Party
17 Hiranagar Shailendra Singh Danu Independent
18 Shivpuri Bhawani Ganj Hargovind Singh Rawat Independent
19 Rampur Road Rajendra Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party
20 Parvatiya Mohalla Himalaya Farm Hemant Kumar Sharma Independent
21 Banbhoolpura Lines 1 to 7 Mohammad Gufran Independent
22 Banbhoolpura Lines 8 to 13 Ayesha Naaz Independent
23 Banbhoolpura Lines 14 to 16 Shahjahan Begum Independent
24 Ghafoor Basti Banbhoolpura Saleem Saifi Independent
25 Banbhoolpura Lines 17 to 20 Seema Anjum Independent
26 Nayi Basti Banbhoolpura Reshma Parveen Independent
27 Gandhinagar Rohit Kumar Independent
28 Bareilly Road Dharmapura Imran Khan Independent
29 Indira Nagar Laeek Ahmed Independent
30 Indira Nagar South Tahira Khatoon Independent
31 Company Bagh Sameer Ansari Independent
32 Indira Nagar West Faeem Jaiba Salmani Independent
33 Indira Nagar East Nasreen Independent
34 Byura Dhamuwadhunga Bandobasti Jyoti Pandey Independent
35 Jawahar Jyoti Anshik Dhamuwadhunga Bandobasti Renu Tamta Indian National Congress
36 Jawahar Jyoti-1 Tanuja Independent
37 Jawahar Jyoti-2 Vidya Devi Bharatiya Janata Party
38 Bithoria Manoj Bhatt Bharatiya Janata Party
39 Lohariasal Malla Dhar Bithoria Mamata Joshi Bharatiya Janata Party
40 Lohariasal Talla Himmatpur Malla Pramod Pant Bharatiya Janata Party
41 Bhagwanpur Chandra Prakash Bharatiya Janata Party
42 Hari Nagar Dheeraj Kumar Pandey Bharatiya Janata Party
43 Chhadayal Pankaj Chuphal Bharatiya Janata Party
44 Kusum Khera West Surendra Mohan Singh Independent
45 Kusum Khera East–Kohli Colony Amit Singh Independent
46 Bithoria West Naveen Chandra Joshi Bharatiya Janata Party
47 Bithoria East Deepak Bisht Bharatiya Janata Party
48 Bamori Malli Mukul Balyutia Independent
49 Bamori Bandobasti Chandan Singh Mehta Bharatiya Janata Party
50 Adarsh Nagar Neema Bhatt Independent
51 Mukhani-1 Mukesh Singh Independent
52 Mukhani-2 Rekha Binwal Bharatiya Janata Party
53 Mukhani-3 Rajesh Kumar Pant Bharatiya Janata Party
54 Mukhani-4 Harendra Singh Bisht Independent
55 Mukhani-5 – Manpur North Amit Bisht Bharatiya Janata Party
56 Manpur Bhagirathi Independent
57 Haldwani Talli – Manpur North Rukmini Bisht Bharatiya Janata Party
58 Haldwani Talli Manoj Joshi Independent
59 Gojajali North Raees Ahmed Independent
60 Gojajali Sanjay Pandey Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

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The Haldwani Municipal Corporation holds direct elections every five years in the state and the latest elections were those held in the year 2025.[3]

Mayoral

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Year No. of Wards Winner Runner Up Margin
Party Candidate Votes % Party Candidate Votes %
2025 60 Bharatiya Janata Party Gajraj Singh Bisht 71,962 47.38 INC Lalit Joshi 68,068 44.81 3,894

Ward-wise

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2025

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Haldwani Municipal Corporation
Party Won +/−
Bharatiya Janata Party 23 Decrease8
Independents 34 Increase34
Indian National Congress 2 Decrease24
Uttarakhand Kranti Dal 1
Total 60

References

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  1. ^ "Haldwani Municipal Corporation" (PDF). udd.uk.gov.in. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
  2. ^ "BJP candidate Gajraj Singh Bisht crowned Haldwani mayor". ETV Bharat (in Hindi). Retrieved 26 January 2025.
  3. ^ a b "SEC Uttarakhand Election Result Portal 2025". SEC Uttarakhand (in Hindi). Retrieved 28 January 2025.