# 2025 Raipur Municipal Corporation election

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

## Background

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.
Under the new policy, the distribution of wards is as follows:
* 35 wards reserved for the general category, out of which 11 are reserved for women
* 23 wards reserved for Other Backward Classes (OBC), with 8 reserved for women
* 9 wards reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC)
* 3 wards reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST)

## Election schedule

The State Election Commission of Chhattisgarh announced the dates for election on 17 January 2025.
| 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
### Mayoral election

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

### Constituency (Ward) wise

| Constituency (Ward) | Constituency (Ward) | | | | | | |
| Constituency (Ward) | Constituency (Ward) | BJP | BJP | BJP | INC | INC | INC |
| 1 | Veer Savarkar Nagar | | BJP | Vishal Pandey | | INC | Sandeep Singh |
| 2 | Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru | | BJP | Bhagwatram Harvansh | | INC | Ghanshyam Kshatri |
| 3 | Sant Kabir Das | | BJP | Manmohan Manhare | | INC | Pappu Bagde |
| 4 | Yati Yatan Lal | | BJP | Nandkumar Sahu | | INC | Kiran Verma |
| 5 | Banjari Mata | | BJP | Ambika Sahu | | INC | Radhika Nagbhushan Rao |
| 6 | Virangana Avantibai | | BJP | Khagpati Soni | | INC | Radhe Shyam Vibhar |
| 7 | Kushabhau Thakre | | BJP | Khemkumar Sen | | INC | Shyam Patel |
| 8 | Mahatma Gandhi | | 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 | | BJP | Sadhna Sahu | | INC | Priyanka Bhardwaj |
| 13 | Rajiv Gandhi | | BJP | Mahendra Khodiyar | | INC | Neetu Ghanshyam Tiwari |
| 14 | Raman Mandir | | BJP | Suryakant Rathore | | INC | Asif Memon |
| 15 | Kanhaiyalal Banjari | | BJP | Rajesh Dewangan | | INC | Ghanshyam Devangan |
| 16 | Veer Shivaji | | BJP | Gajju Sahu | | INC | Vikas Verma (Baba) |
| 17 | Thakkar Bapa | | BJP | Pramila Sahu | | INC | Dineshwari Annu Ram Sahu |
| 18 | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | | 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 | | BJP | Gayatri Chandrakar | | INC | Kumkum Jha |
| 22 | Ishvari Charan Shukla | | BJP | Meena Thakur | | INC | Neelima Singh |
| 23 | Shaheed Manmohan Singh Bakshi | | BJP | Krishna Bharti | | INC | Ronita Prakash Jagat |
| 24 | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel | | BJP | Radhika Sahu | | INC | Deep Mani Ram Sahu |
| 25 | Sant Ramdas | | BJP | Bholaram Sahu | | INC | Tarun Shrivas |
| 26 | Danveer Bhamashah | | BJP | Ramheen Kurre | | INC | Rukhmani Sundar Jogi |
| 27 | Indira Gandhi | | BJP | Avatar Bagal | | INC | Daljeet Chawla |
| 28 | Shaheed Hemu Kalyani | | BJP | Kritika Jain | | INC | G. Shrinivas |
| 29 | Guru Govind Singh | | BJP | Kailash Behra | | INC | Sewak Mahanand |
| 30 | Shankar Nagar | | BJP | Rajesh Gupta | | INC | Manoj Masand |
| 31 | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose | | BJP | Pushpa Sahu | | INC | Disha Dhotre |
| 32 | Maharshi Valmiki | | 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 | | BJP | Shweta Vishwakarma | | INC | Santari Harish Sahu |
| 37 | Shaheed Chudamani Nayak | | BJP | Deepak Jai Sawal | | INC | Daulal Sahu |
| 38 | Swami Atmanand | | BJP | Anand Agrawal | | INC | Vikas Agrawal |
| 39 | Thakur Pyarelal | | BJP | Suman Pande | | INC | Sangeeta Dubey |
| 40 | Deendayal Upadhyay | | BJP | Aashu Chandrawanshi | | INC | Shashikant Sahu |
| 41 | Pt. Sundar Lal Sharma | | BJP | Sarita Akash Dube | | INC | Bharti Sharma |
| 42 | Mahant Laxminarayan Das | | BJP | Amber Agrawal | | INC | Banshi Kannauje |
| 43 | Bramhan Para | | BJP | Ajai Sahu | | INC | Manoj Sonkar |
| 44 | Swami Vivekanand Sadar Bazar | | BJP | Murali Sharma | | INC | Rahul Tiwari |
| 45 | Maulana Abdul Rauf | | BJP | Preeti Partale | | INC | Arjuman Dhebar |
| 46 | Civil Lines | | BJP | Sanjay Hiyal | | INC | Neelam Neelkanth Jagat |
| 47 | Mother Teresa | | BJP | Santosh Sahu | | INC | Tarachand Yadav |
| 48 | Guru Ghasidas | | BJP | Mahesh Dhruw | | INC | Sheetal Kuldeep |
| 49 | Rani Durgavati | | BJP | Anamika Singh | | INC | Prabhjot Singh Ladi |
| 50 | Vidya Charan Shukla | | BJP | Gayatri Naurange | | INC | Sahdev Vyavhar |
| 51 | Lal Bahadur Shastri | | BJP | Uttara Singh | | INC | Renu Jayant Sahu |
| 52 | Rajendra Prasad | | BJP | Vinai Nirmalkar | | INC | Ramkumar Sahu |
| 53 | Babu Jagjeevan Ram | | BJP | Manoj Jangde | | INC | Suraj Jangde |
| 54 | Comrade Sudhir Mukharjee | | BJP | Sushma Sahoo | | INC | Usha Chandrahas Nirmalkar |
| 55 | Ravindranath Tagore | | 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 | | BJP | Swapnil Mishra | | INC | Monika Jain |
| 59 | Moreshwar Rao Garde | | BJP | Anjali Goleccha | | INC | Kavita Amit Das |
| 60 | Chandrasekhar Azad | | 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 | | BJP | Manoj Verma | | INC | Sanjeev Singh Yadav |
| 65 | Mahamaya Mandir | | BJP | Manju Vyas | | INC | Jaishree Nayak |
| 66 | Vaman Rao Lakhe | | BJP | Shyamsundar Agrawal | | INC | Sarvajeet Singh Thakur |
| 67 | Bhakta Mata Karma | | BJP | Mamta Tiwari | | INC | Purnima Uttam Sahu |
| 68 | Dr. Khubchand Baghel | | BJP | Durga Sahu | | INC | Dr. Subhashini Devangan |
| 69 | Madhavrao Sapre | | BJP | Mahendra Ausar | | INC | Hirendra Devangan |
| 70 | Sant Ravidas | | BJP | Arjun Yadav | | INC | Devendra Kumar Sahu |

## Results
### Mayoral election

2025 Raipur Municipal Corporation Election: Mayor :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Meenal Choubey | 315,835 | 62.03% | 20.60% |
| | INC | Deepti Pramod Dubey | 162,545 | 31.92% | 26.65% |
| | Spoiled ballots | Invalid | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 153,290 | 30.10% | 20.60% |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 509,146 | 49.50% | 28.5 |

### Result by party

| Party | Party | Party | Party | Popular vote | Popular vote | Popular vote | Seats | Seats | Seats |
| Party | Party | Party | Party | Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− |
| | Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Janata Party | | | | 70 | 60 | 31 |
| | Indian National Congress | Indian National Congress | Indian National Congress | | | | 70 | 7 | 27 |
| | Independents | Independents | Independents | | | | 166 | 3 | 4 |
| | NOTA | NOTA | NOTA | | | | | | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | | | | | 70 | |