Lucknow Municipal Corporation

Lucknow Municipal Corporation
Type Municipal Corporation
Headquarters Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Official language
Hindi, English, Urdu
Sanyukta Bhatia
Website lmc.up.nic.in

Lucknow Municipal Corporation (Hindi: Lucknow Nagar Nigam) is the Municipal Corporation responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The organization is known, in short, as LMC. This civic administrative body administers the city's cleanliness and other public services like public health and parks. The head of the LMC is the mayor. The present mayor is Sanyukta Bhatia while the present commissioner is Rakesh Kumar Singh.[1]

Organization

LMC consists of 110 wards[2] for which elections are held every five years to select the corporators. Various political parties nominate their candidates and people of respective wards cast their votes during elections to elect the corporator for their ward. After the elections the winners select a mayor from among themselves.

Mayors

Mayors of LMC are listed below:[3]

Mayorterm startterm ended
Raj Kumar Srivastava1 February 19601 February 1961
Giriraj Dharna Rastogi2 February 19611 May 1962
Purushottam Das Kapoor2 May 19621 May 1964
V R Mohan2 May 19641 May 1965
Om Narayan Bansal2 May 196531 June 1966
Madan Mohan Singh Sidhu4 July 196830 June 1969
Balak Ram Vaishya1 July 196930 June 1970
Beni Prasad Halwasiya1 July 197030 June 1971
Dauji Gupta5 July 197127 May 1992
Akhilesh Das Gupta [4]13 May 199330 November 1995
S. C. Rai1 December 199513 February 2006
Dinesh Sharma14 November 200622 March 2017
Suresh Awasthi23 March 201730 November 2017
Sanyukta Bhatia1 December 2017present

Corporation Election 2017

Mayor Election 2017

U. P. Local Body Election, 2017: Lucknow
Party Candidate Votes % ±
BJP Sanyukta Bhatia 3,77,166 41.94
SP Meera Vardhan 2,45,810 27.34
INC Prema Awasthi 1,09,571 12.19
BSP Bulbul Godiyal 83,120 9.24
AAP Priyanka Maheshwari 24,577 2.73
NOTA None of the Above 5,449 0.61
Margin of victory 1,31,356 14.60
Turnout 8,99,214 38.64
BJP hold Swing

Corporator Election 2017

Lucknow Municipal Corporation elections were conducted in November 2017.

S.No.Party NameParty flag or symbolNumber of CorporatorsChange
01Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)58Increase14
02Samajwadi Party (SP)28New
02Indian National Congress (INC)8Decrease3
04Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)2New
05Independents14Decrease40

Source: [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "RK Singh appointed Lucknow Municipal Corporation chief". Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  2. ↑ http://lmc.up.nic.in/pdf/WARD_suchna_english.pdf
  3. ↑ http://lmc.up.nic.in/pdf/mayerlist.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.archive.india.gov.in/govt/rajyasabhampbiodata.php?mpcode=119
  5. ↑ http://lmc.up.nic.in/
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