Lucknow Municipal Corporation
Type | Municipal Corporation |
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Headquarters | Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India |
Official language | Hindi, English, Urdu |
Sanyukta Bhatia | |
Website |
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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]
Mayor | term start | term ended |
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Raj Kumar Srivastava | 1 February 1960 | 1 February 1961 |
Giriraj Dharna Rastogi | 2 February 1961 | 1 May 1962 |
Purushottam Das Kapoor | 2 May 1962 | 1 May 1964 |
V R Mohan | 2 May 1964 | 1 May 1965 |
Om Narayan Bansal | 2 May 1965 | 31 June 1966 |
Madan Mohan Singh Sidhu | 4 July 1968 | 30 June 1969 |
Balak Ram Vaishya | 1 July 1969 | 30 June 1970 |
Beni Prasad Halwasiya | 1 July 1970 | 30 June 1971 |
Dauji Gupta | 5 July 1971 | 27 May 1992 |
Akhilesh Das Gupta [4] | 13 May 1993 | 30 November 1995 |
S. C. Rai | 1 December 1995 | 13 February 2006 |
Dinesh Sharma | 14 November 2006 | 22 March 2017 |
Suresh Awasthi | 23 March 2017 | 30 November 2017 |
Sanyukta Bhatia | 1 December 2017 | present |
Corporation Election 2017
Mayor Election 2017
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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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 Name | Party flag or symbol | Number of Corporators | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|
01 | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 58 | ||
02 | Samajwadi Party (SP) | 28 | New | |
02 | Indian National Congress (INC) | 8 | ||
04 | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) | 2 | New | |
05 | Independents | 14 | ||
Source: [5]