Kolkata Municipal Corporation Polls
KMC election result: Vote counting underway, TMC maintains strong lead ahead of oppositions
Kolkata: Counting of votes for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls, which was held on Sunday, is currently undergoing on Tuesday where initial results showed the ruling Trinamool Congress marching ahead of the opponents.
As per trends at 9.15 am, TMC is ahead in 65 seats.
The Bharatiya Janata Party is ahead in four while the Left Front is leading in 1 seat.
The Congress is ahead in 2 seats while others are leading in 1.
So far, the trend of 73 seats is clear.
Around 40.48 lakh electorates were eligible to cast their votes to elect their new representatives in the 144 wards.
The Trinamool Congress is ruling the KMC since 2010.
Election has been delayed by around one and half years due to COVID-19 pandemic even as the term of the elected members of the KMC ended in May 2020.
For Sunday’s election, the ruling TMC had dropped 39 sitting councilors but retained its heavyweight leaders, including former mayor Firhad Hakim, former deputy mayor Atin Ghosh, MLAs Debashis Kumar, Debabrata Mazumdar, Ratna Chatterjee and Paresh Pal, and MP Mala Roy.
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