# 2025 Rishikesh Municipal Corporation election

The 2025 Rishikesh Municipal Corporation election is a municipal election to the Rishikesh Municipal Corporation which governs Rishikesh city in Uttarakhand. It was held on 23 January 2025.

## Election schedule

The election schedule was announced by the state election commission on 23 December 2024.
| Poll Event | Schedule |
| Notification Date | 27 December 2024 |
| Last Date for filing nomination | 30 December 2024 |
| Scrutiny of nomination | 31 December 2024 |
| Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination | 2 January 2025 |
| Allotment of Symbols | 3 January 2025 |
| Date of Poll | 23 January 2025 |
| Date of Counting of Votes | 25 January 2025 |

## Candidates
### Mayoral

| No. | Party | Party | Party | Symbol | Candidate's Name |
| 1 | | Bharatiya Janata Party | | | Shambhu Paswan |
| 2 | | Indian National Congress | | | Deepak Jatav |

### Ward-wise candidates

| Ward No. | Ward Name | | | | | | |
| Ward No. | Ward Name | BJP | BJP | BJP | INC | INC | INC |
| 1 | Chandreshwar Nagar | | BJP | Kiran Yadav | | INC | Pushpa Mishra |
| 2 | Triveni Colony | | BJP | Roopa Devi | | INC | Reena Bharadwaj |
| 3 | Durga Mandir | | BJP | Priyanka Yadav | | INC | Urmila Devi |
| 4 | Bhairav Mandir | | BJP | Pooja Nautiyal | | INC | Suman Rani |
| 5 | Pushkar Mandir | | BJP | Shiva Prajapati | | INC | Devendra Prajapati |
| 6 | Adarsh Gram | | BJP | Gambhir Mewar | | INC | Sunil Kumar |
| 7 | Mayakund | | BJP | Ajay Kumar Das | | INC | Vishal Singh |
| 8 | Bharat Mandir | | BJP | Vijay Lakshmi Bhatt | | INC | |
| 9 | Mukherjee Marg | | BJP | Reena Sharma | | INC | Rahul Sharma |
| 10 | Sadanand Marg | | BJP | Ashwani Dang | | INC | Manish Sharma |
| 11 | Ashutosh Nagar | | BJP | Sumit Tiwari | | INC | Bhagwan Singh |
| 12 | Pragati Vihar | | BJP | Rajendra Bijalwan | | INC | Sarojini Thapliyal |
| 13 | Valmiki Nagar | | BJP | Ekta Khairwal | | INC | Meghana |
| 14 | Subhash Vankhandi | | BJP | Lata Tiwari | | INC | |
| 15 | Maniram Marg | | BJP | Prabhakar Sharma | | INC | Kuldeep Sharma |
| 16 | Tilak Marg | | BJP | Pradeep Kohli | | INC | |
| 17 | Ganga Vihar | | BJP | Shiv Kumar Gautam | | INC | Kamlesh Sharma |
| 18 | Shanti Nagar | | BJP | Rajesh Kumar | | INC | Ajay Diwakar |
| 19 | Someshwar Mandir | | BJP | Payal Bisht | | INC | Radha Devi |
| 20 | Ganganagar | | BJP | Sandhya Bisht | | INC | |
| 21 | Upper Ganganagar | | BJP | Neelam Manori | | INC | |
| 22 | Shastri Nagar | | BJP | Reha Dhyani | | INC | Sunita Bansal |
| 23 | Sarvhara Nagar | | BJP | Vikas Tewatia | | INC | Veerpal |
| 24 | Bharat Vihar | | BJP | Tanu Tewatia | | INC | Lajwanti Bhandari |
| 25 | Awas Vikas | | BJP | Jyoti Paswan | | INC | Urmila Dimri |
| 26 | Shivaji Nagar | | BJP | Jayesh Rana | | INC | Sardar Gurvinder Singh |
| 27 | Bairaj Ward | | BJP | Devendra Prasad Dimri | | INC | Abhinav Singh Malik |
| 28 | Virbhadra Mandir | | BJP | Rahul Kashyap | | INC | Rakesh Rajbhar |
| 29 | Bees Bigha | | BJP | Vimal Singh Negi | | INC | Sachveer Bhandari |
| 30 | Meera Nagar | | BJP | Anita Pradhan | | INC | |
| 31 | Bapugram | | BJP | Manju Devi | | INC | Sakshi |
| 32 | Suman Vihar | | BJP | Govind Singh Rawat | | INC | Bhupendra Kukreti |
| 33 | Gita Nagar | | BJP | Vijay Badoni | | INC | |
| 34 | Malviya Nagar | | BJP | Rajesh Kothiyal | | INC | Sumit Chauhan |
| 35 | Amit Gram East | | BJP | Vipin Pant | | INC | Arvind Negi |
| 36 | Amit Gram West | | BJP | Vijay Jugran | | INC | |
| 37 | Mansha Devi | | BJP | Vijendra Mogha | | INC | Manoj Barthawal |
| 38 | Indira Nagar | | BJP | Rajendra Singh Bisht | | INC | |
| 39 | Nehru Gram | | BJP | Jagat Negi | | INC | |
| 40 | THDC | | BJP | Pushkar Bangwal | | INC | Moni Dirwal |

## Results
### Mayoral election

2025 Rishikesh Municipal Corporation Election: Mayor :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | BJP | Shambhu Paswan | 23,998 | 41.38 |
| | Independent | Dinesh Chandra 'Masterji' | 20,978 | 36.17 |
| | INC | Deepak Jatav | 11,955 | 20.61 |
| | UKD | Mahendra Singh | 759 | 1.31 |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 303 | 0.52 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 3,020 | 5.21 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 57,993 | |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | |

### Results by party

| Party | Party | Party | Party | Seats | Seats | Seats |
| Party | Party | Party | Party | Contested | Won | +/− |
| | Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Janata Party | 40 | 18 | 3 |
| | Indian National Congress | Indian National Congress | Indian National Congress | 28 | 6 | 3 |
| | Other parties | Other parties | Other parties | 7 | 0 | |
| | Independents | Independents | Independents | 69 | 16 | |
| | NOTA | NOTA | NOTA | | | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 144 | 40 | |