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Chhattisgarh urban body election results 2019: Congress wins four municipal bodies

As per the State Election Commission, the total voter turnout recorded was 66.05 percent. There were 40,05,353 eligible voters, including 20,00,303 women.

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New Delhi: The counting of votes for 151 urban bodies in Chhattisgarh began at 8 am on Tuesday. Polling for 10 municipal corporations, 38 municipal councils and 103 Nagar panchayats to elect corporators for 2,831 wards took place on Saturday (December 21). Re-polling was held at booth number 399 in Maharishi Valmiki Ward (32) in Raipur Municipal Corporation on December 23.

In six wards, corporators were elected unopposed. Besides, no nominations were received in three wards while all nominations were withdrawn in two places. Nota was introduced for the first time in this Urban Body Election. The voting was done with the use of the ballot paper system. 

The major parties in the election are Congress-BJP- Janta Congress Chhattisgarh, in the earlier trends, Congress was running ahead of BJP. 

As per the State Election Commission, the total voter turnout recorded was 66.05 percent. There were 40,05,353 eligible voters, including 20,00,303 women.

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24 December 2019
19:45 IST

Out of 10 Municipal Corporations, Congress wins four and is leading in four others. The decision stood hung for the remaining two.

15:02 IST

103 Nagar panchayats, 1545 wards

Current tally
BJP- 286
Congress – 351
JCCJ - 12
Others - 104

14:52 IST

Ambikapur Nagar Nigam: Congress wins 27 seats, BJP 20, Independent candidate 1 

13:30 IST

Durg Nagar Nigam: BJP wins 16 wards, Congress 13, JCC(J) 01, others 12

13:11 IST

Karobar Nagar Palika: Congress candidate Ratan Mittal registers win by two votes, BJP candidate opposes the decision 

13:11 IST

103 Nagar panchayats, 1545 wards

Current tally

BJP- 432
Congress – 520
JCCJ - 11
Others - 144

12:42 IST

Raipur Nagar Nigam: Neck-and-neck fight between BJP-Congress in 7 out of 10 wards 

12:36 IST

Raipur Nagar Nigam: Congress leads at 32, BJP at 27 and Janta Congress Chhattisgarh at 3

12:10 IST

Congress leads in 462 wards, BJP in 378, Janta Congress Chhattisgarh in 11 and others at 132. The total number of wards is 1545.  

11:45 IST

Congress leads in 271 wards, BJP in 137, Janta Congress Chhattisgarh in 11 and others in 39. 

11:45 IST

Congress candidates wins from Surajpur Nagar Palika ward number 6   

11:29 IST

Raipur: Congress candidate wins from Surajpur ward no 6, BJP's Sanjay Srivastav trailing from ward number 11. 

11:28 IST

Congress maintains leads in 26 wards, BJP leading on 13.