# 2022 Siliguri Municipal Corporation election

Municipal elections were held in Siliguri on 12 February 2022 to elect members of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation.
The Trinamool Congress party won the election defeating CPI(M) led Left Front with an overwhelming majority. The sitting mayor of Siliguri Ashok Bhattacharya lost his ward to TMC candidate Alam Khan by 482 votes. After the result, Goutam Deb became the new Mayor.

## Schedule

| Poll event | Schedule |
| Notification date | 28 Dec, 2021 |
| Last Date for filing nomination | 3 Jan, 2022 |
| Last Date for withdrawal of nomination | 6 Jan, 2022 |
| Date of poll | 12 Feb, 2022 |
| Date of counting of votes | 14 Feb, 2022 |

## Parties and alliances

Following is a list of political parties and alliances which contested in this election:
| Party | Alliance | No. of contesting candidates |
| All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) | Left Front | 3 |
| Communist Party of India (CPI) | Left Front | 2 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) | Left Front | 36 |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) | Left Front | 2 |
| All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) | None | 47 |
| Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | None | 46 |
| Indian National Congress (INC) | None | 34 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation CPI(ML)L | None | 1 |
| Independents (IND) | None | 30 |

## Candidates

List of candidates :
| Ward | Ward | Reservation | Left Front | Left Front | Left Front | AITC | AITC | AITC | BJP | BJP | BJP | INC | INC | INC |
| # | Name | SC/ST/Women | Party | Party | Candidate | Party | Party | Candidate | Party | Party | Candidate | Party | Party | Candidate |
| 1 | Ward No. 1 | None | | RSP | Biswajit Roy | | AITC | Sanjay Pathak | | BJP | Kanhaiya Kumar Pathak | | INC | Maksudan Sahani |
| 2 | Ward No. 2 | Women | | CPI(M) | Snighda Hazra(Halder) | | AITC | Gargi Chatterjee | | BJP | Bani Paul | | INC | Tanu Ghosh |
| 3 | Ward No. 3 | None | | RSP | Chhanda Goswami Sarkar | | AITC | Ram Bhajan Mahato | | BJP | Binod Kumar Gupta | | INC | Roshan Kumar Jha |
| 4 | Ward No. 4 | None | | CPI(M) | Sourove Kanti Sarkar | | AITC | Parimal Mitra | | BJP | Vivekananda Singh | | INC | Chabi Das |
| 5 | Ward No. 5 | Women | | AIFB | Rina Yadav | | AITC | Saroj Goenka | | BJP | Anita Mahato | | INC | Shruti Yadav |
| 6 | Ward No. 6 | None | | CPI(M) | Ashok Narayan Bhattacharya | | AITC | Alam Khan | | BJP | Noor Jahan Ansari | | INC | Md Shahanawaz Hussain |
| 7 | Ward No. 7 | None | Left Front supports INC | Left Front supports INC | Left Front supports INC | | AITC | Pintu Ghosh | | BJP | Shakuntala Mishra | | INC | Rajeev Kumar Mishra |
| 8 | Ward No. 8 | Women | | CPI(M) | Sabita Mitruka | | AITC | Khusboo Mittal | | BJP | Shalini Dalmia | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) |
| 9 | Ward No. 9 | None | | AIFB | Mohan Lal Mandal | | AITC | Pradip Kumar Goyel | | BJP | Amit Jain | | INC | Harendra Lohia |
| 10 | Ward No. 10 | None | | CPI(M) | Suraj Kundu | | AITC | Kamal Agarwal | | BJP | Prasenjit Paul | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) |
| 11 | Ward No. 11 | Women | Left Front supported Independent candidate Santosh Devi Singhal | Left Front supported Independent candidate Santosh Devi Singhal | Left Front supported Independent candidate Santosh Devi Singhal | | AITC | Uma Goyal | | BJP | Manjushree Paul | INC supports Left Front | INC supports Left Front | INC supports Left Front |
| 12 | Ward No. 12 | None | | CPI(M) | Pradip Ghosh | | AITC | Basudeb Ghosh | | BJP | Nantu Paul | | INC | Soubhik Sengupta |
| 13 | Ward No. 13 | None | | CPI | Raman Tuli | | AITC | Manik Dey | | BJP | Bhushan Jain | INC supports CPI | INC supports CPI | INC supports CPI |
| 14 | Ward No. 14 | Women | | CPI(M) | Munmun Bhowmik | | AITC | Srabani Dutta | | BJP | Madhabi Mukherjee | | INC | Shilpi Sarkar |
| 15 | Ward No. 15 | None | | CPI | Habul Ghosh | | AITC | Ranjan Sarkar | | BJP | Raju Saha | | INC | Subin Bhowmick |
| 16 | Ward No. 16 | None | Left Front supports INC | Left Front supports INC | Left Front supports INC | | AITC | Sanjeeb Chakraborty | | BJP | Shibendhu Dutta | | INC | Sujoy Ghatak |
| 17 | Ward No. 17 | Women | | CPI(M) | Joyita Mitra | | AITC | Mili Seal Sinha | | BJP | Shipra Mondal | | INC | Ruma Nath |
| 18 | Ward No. 18 | None | | CPI(M) | Deepak Kumar Sahani | | AITC | Sanjay Sharma | | BJP | Debkumar Sengupta | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) |
| 19 | Ward No. 19 | None | | CPI(M) | Mousumi Hazra | | AITC | Bimal Ghosh | | BJP | Tridib Saha | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) |
| 20 | Ward No. 20 | Women | | CPI(M) | Anjana Dey | | AITC | Abhaya Bose | | BJP | Pala Balo Majumder | | INC | Shampa Bhattacharjee |
| 21 | Ward No. 21 | None | Left Front supports INC | Left Front supports INC | Left Front supports INC | | AITC | Kuntal Roy | | BJP | Suman Sarkar | | INC | Tapan Dutta |
| 22 | Ward No. 22 | None | | CPI(M) | Dipta Karmakar | | AITC | Dhiman Bose | | BJP | Shyama Shankar Rakshit | | INC | Sujit Dutta |
| 23 | Ward No. 23 | Women | | CPI(M) | Ayantika Chakraborty | | AITC | Lakshmi Paul | | BJP | Sharmistha Dey Sarkar | | INC | Ayantika Ghosh Guha |
| 24 | Ward No. 24 | None | | CPI(M) | Indrajit Chanda | | AITC | Pratul Chakraborty | | BJP | Sankar Ghosh | | INC | Dipak Kar |
| 25 | Ward No. 25 | None | | AIFB | Dalia Ghosh | | AITC | Jayanta Saha | | BJP | Santosh Modak | | INC | Shankar Choudhury |
| 26 | Ward No. 26 | Women | | CPI(M) | Binapani Dutta | | AITC | Sikta Dey Basu Ray | | BJP | Anindita Roy Das | | INC | Ruchira Malakar |
| 27 | Ward No. 27 | None | | CPI(M) | Sudip Bhattacharjee | | AITC | Prasanta Chakraborty | | BJP | Ranvir Majumder | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) |
| 28 | Ward No. 28 | SC Women | | CPI(M) | Aparna Dalai | | AITC | Samprita Das | | BJP | Jyoti Prasad Bhagat | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) |
| 29 | Ward No. 29 | None | | CPI(M) | Saradindu Chakraborty | | AITC | Susmita Bose Moitra | | BJP | Prosenjit Saha | | INC | Nandita Saha Bose |
| 30 | Ward No. 30 | Women | | CPI(M) | Manju Karmakar | | AITC | Sathi Das | | BJP | Rinku Dutta | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) |
| 31 | Ward No. 31 | SC Women | | CPI(M) | Bani Barman | | AITC | Moumita Mondal | | BJP | Rinku Bagchi | | INC | Navaneeta Tirkey |
| 32 | Ward No. 32 | None | | CPI(M) | Bidhayak Chandra Das | | AITC | Tapas Chatterjee | | BJP | Kajal Das | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) |
| 33 | Ward No. 33 | None | | CPI(M) | Ashim Kumar Saha | | AITC | Goutam Deb | | BJP | Parimal Sutradhar | | INC | Niranjan Acharjya |
| 34 | Ward No. 34 | SC | | CPI(M) | Golap Roy Das | | AITC | Biman Chandra Tapadar | | BJP | Ratan Das | | INC | Swati Sarkar Bhattacharjee |
| 35 | Ward No. 35 | Women | | CPI(M) | Shefali Bhattacharjee | | AITC | Sampa Nandi | | BJP | Arpita Das | | INC | Rita Chaudhury |
| 36 | Ward No.36 | None | | CPI(M) | Barun Talukdar | | AITC | Ranjan Sil Sharma | | BJP | Partha Baidya | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) |
| 37 | Ward No. 37 | SC | | CPI(M) | Nakul Chandra Sarkar | | AITC | Alok Bhakta | | BJP | Amrit Poddar | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) |
| 38 | Ward No. 38 | None | | CPI(M) | Tapas Das | | AITC | Dulal Dutta | | BJP | Nityananda Pal | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) | INC supports CPI(M) |
| 39 | Ward No. 39 | Women | | CPI(M) | Priya Dey | | AITC | Pinki Saha | | BJP | Arundhati Jha | | INC | Pritilata Roy |
| 40 | Ward No. 40 | None | | CPI(M) | Biplab Dutta | | AITC | Rajesh Prasad Sah | | BJP | Dilip Roy | | INC | Manoj Agarwal |
| 41 | Ward No. 41 | None | | CPI(M) | Naresh Singh | | AITC | Shivika Mittal | | BJP | Julee Tamang | | INC | Kamal Majumdar |
| 42 | Ward No. 42 | ST | | CPI(M) | Sunita Gheesing | | AITC | Shobha Subba | | BJP | Kersensia Kindo | | INC | Chingzong Helena Lepcha |
| 43 | Ward No. 43 | SC | | CPI(M) | Surendra Sharma | | AITC | Sukhdeo Mahato | | BJP | Sachin Prasad | | INC | Santosh Roy |
| 44 | Ward No. 44 | SC | | CPI(M) | Mahua Bhattacharjee | | AITC | Pritikana Biswas | | BJP | Iti Acharjee | | INC | Nabina Sarkar |
| 45 | Ward No. 45 | Women | | CPI(M) | Munshi Nurul Islam | | AITC | Bedabrata Dutta | | BJP | Dinesh Singh | | INC | Bablu Mahato |
| 46 | Ward No. 46 | None | | CPI(M) | Paresh Chandra Sarkar | | AITC | Dilip Barman | Didn't Field Candidate | Didn't Field Candidate | Didn't Field Candidate | | INC | Shikha Roy |
| 47 | Ward No. 47 | SC | | CPI(M) | Mukul Sengupta | | AITC | Amar Ananda Das | | BJP | Nirmal Bagchi | | INC | Sudhan Bhowmick |

## Result
### Party-wise Result

| 37 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| AITC | BJP | CPI(M) | INC |
* AITC (47.24%)
* LF (18.28%)
* INC (5.32%)
* BJP (23.24%)
* IND (5.91%)
* Others (0.01%)

### Ward-wise Result

The Ward-wise Results were announced by the West Bengal State Election Commission after the counting.
Results :
| Ward number | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Margin |
| Ward number | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | Margin |
| Ward No. 1 | | AITC | Sanjay Pathak | 3,341 | | Independent | Birandra Kapoor | 2,472 | 869 |
| Ward No. 2 | | AITC | Gargi Chatterjee | 3,613 | | CPI(M) | Snigdha Hazra(Halder) | 2,557 | 1,056 |
| Ward No. 3 | | AITC | Rambhajan Mahato | 3,606 | | BJP | Binod Kumar Gupta | 2,046 | 1,560 |
| Ward No. 4 | | BJP | Vivek Singh | 4,936 | | AITC | Parimal Mitra | 4,867 | 69 |
| Ward No. 5 | | BJP | Anita Mahato | 2,551 | | Independent | Rakhi Gupta | 2,315 | 236 |
| Ward No. 6 | | AITC | Alam Khan | 1,929 | | CPI(M) | Ashok Bhattacharya | 1,447 | 482 |
| Ward No. 7 | | AITC | Pintu Ghosh | 3,206 | | BJP | Shakuntala Mishra | 1,239 | 1,967 |
| Ward No. 8 | | BJP | Shalini Dalmia | 2,160 | | AITC | Khushboo Mittal | 1,367 | 793 |
| Ward No. 9 | | BJP | Amit Jain | 2,168 | | AITC | Pradip Kumar Goyel | 2,097 | 71 |
| Ward No. 10 | | AITC | Kamal Agarwal | 1363 | | BJP | Prasenjit Paul | 1,042 | 321 |
| Ward No. 11 | | BJP | Manjushree Paul | 833 | | AITC | Uma Goyal | 793 | 40 |
| Ward No. 12 | | AITC | Basudeb Ghosh | 1,056 | | BJP | Nantu Paul | 791 | 265 |
| Ward No. 13 | | AITC | Manik Dey | 1,762 | | BJP | Bhushan Jain | 892 | 870 |
| Ward No. 14 | | AITC | Srabani Dutta | 2,312 | | BJP | Madhabi Mukherjee | 1,102 | 1,210 |
| Ward No. 15 | | AITC | Ranjan Sarkar | 2,612 | | BJP | Raju Saha | 1,276 | 1,336 |
| Ward No. 16 | | INC | Sujoy Ghattak | 1,804 | | AITC | Sanjeeb Chakroborty | 980 | 824 |
| Ward No. 17 | | AITC | Mili Sil Sinha | 1,850 | | CPI(M) | Joyita Mitra(Jaya) | 531 | 1,319 |
| Ward No. 18 | | AITC | Sanjay Sharma | 1,862 | | BJP | Deb Kumar Sengupta | 1,449 | 213 |
| Ward No. 19 | | CPI(M) | Mousumi Hazra | 1,208 | | AITC | Bimal Ghosh | 757 | 451 |
| Ward No. 20 | | AITC | Abhaya Bose | 2,878 | | CPI(M) | Anjana Dey | 1,247 | 1,631 |
| Ward No. 21 | | AITC | Kuntal Roy | 1,961 | | INC | Tapan Dutta | 1,307 | 654 |
| Ward No. 22 | | CPI(M) | Dipta Karmakar | 3,776 | | AITC | Dhiman Bose | 2,569 | 1,209 |
| Ward No. 23 | | AITC | Lakshmi Paul | 3,247 | | CPI(M) | Sayantika Chakroborty (Mou) | 774 | 1,145 |
| Ward No. 24 | | AITC | Pratul Chakraborty | 2,102 | | IND | Bikash Sarkar | 2,091 | 11 |
| Ward No. 25 | | AITC | Jayanta Saha | 2,629 | | BJP | Santosh Modak | 1,367 | 1,269 |
| Ward No. 26 | | AITC | Sikta Dey Basu Ray | 810 | | BJP | Anindita Roy Das | 629 | 181 |
| Ward No. 27 | | AITC | Prasanta Chakraborty | 2,225 | | CPI(M) | Sudip Bhattacharjee | 1,216 | 1,009 |
| Ward No. 28 | | AITC | Samprita Das | 1,577 | | CPI(M) | Aparna Dalai | 1,514 | 63 |
| Ward No. 29 | | CPI(M) | Sharadidu Chakraborty | 2,494 | | AITC | Susmita Bose Moitra | 1,260 | 1,234 |
| Ward No. 30 | | AITC | Sathi Das | 2,915 | | CPI(M) | Manju Karmakar | 1,056 | 1,859 |
| Ward No. 31 | | AITC | Moumita Mondal | 4,833 | | BJP | Rinku Bagchi | 2,653 | 2,180 |
| Ward No. 32 | | AITC | Tapas Chatterjee | 3,516 | | BJP | Kajal Das | 1,211 | 2,305 |
| Ward No. 33 | | AITC | Goutam Deb | 4,820 | | IND | Bijan Sarkar | 1,384 | 3,436 |
| Ward No. 34 | | AITC | Biman Chandra Tapadar | 4,531 | | CPI(M) | Golap Roy | 2,662 | 1,869 |
| Ward No. 35 | | AITC | Sampa Nandi | 4,632 | | CPI(M) | Shefali Bhattacharjee | 2,732 | 1,900 |
| Ward No. 36 | | AITC | Ranjan Shil Sharma | 5,911 | | BJP | Partha Baidya | 2,457 | 3,454 |
| Ward No. 37 | | AITC | Alak Bhakta | 4,325 | | BJP | Amrit Poddar | 3,810 | 515 |
| Ward No. 38 | | AITC | Dulal Dutta | 5,072 | | BJP | Nityananda Pal | 1,860 | 3,212 |
| Ward No. 39 | | AITC | Pinki Saha | 3,288 | | IND | Rina Das | 1,726 | 1,562 |
| Ward No. 40 | | AITC | Rajesh Prasad Sah | 6,677 | | BJP | Dilip Roy | 3,733 | 2,944 |
| Ward No. 41 | | AITC | Shivika Mittal | 3,115 | | BJP | Julee Tamang | 2,785 | 330 |
| Ward No. 42 | | AITC | Shobha Subba | 3,537 | | BJP | Kersensia Kindo | 3,370 | 167 |
| Ward No. 43 | | AITC | Sukhdeo Mahato | 3798 | | BJP | Sachin Prasad | 3,103 | 695 |
| Ward No. 44 | | AITC | Pritikana Biswas | 4,473 | | BJP | Iti Acharjee | 1,589 | 2,884 |
| Ward No. 45 | | CPI(M) | Munshi Nurul Islam | 2,036 | | AITC | Bedabrata Dutta | 1,933 | 103 |
| Ward No. 46 | | AITC | Dilip Barman | 9,549 | | CPI(M) | Paresh Chandra Sarkar | 3,983 | 5,566 |
| Ward No. 47 | | AITC | Amar Nanda Das | 2,309 | | CPI(M) | Mukul Sengupta | 2,172 | 137 |