Lucknow Municipal Corporation

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 Indramani Tripathi.[1]

Lucknow Municipal Corporation Bank
TypeMunicipal Corporation
HeadquartersLucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Official language
Hindi, English, Urdu
Sanyukta Bhatia
Websitelmc.up.nic.in

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.

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 JAN 1990
Satish Chandra Mishra19 Feb 199030 June 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

Mayor Election
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
U. P. Local Body Election, 2012: Lucknow
Party Candidate Votes % ±
BJP Dr. Dinesh Sharma 3,35,106
INC Dr. Neeraj Bora 1,63,282
Margin of victory 1,71,824
Turnout N/A
BJP hold Swing
U. P. Local Body Election, 2006: Lucknow
Party Candidate Votes % ±
BJP Dr. Dinesh Sharma 2,21,713 30.33
INC Dr. Manzoor Ahmed 2,12,410 29.05
SP Dr. Madhu Gupta 1,58,918 21.74
IND. Shiv Kumar Gupta 34,155 4.67
IND. Shailesh Kumar Singh 25,631 3.51
RLD Bhawaan Singh Rawat 15,476 2.12
IND. Mahesh Diwan 11,169 1.53
Margin of victory 9,303 1.28
Turnout 7,31,097 N/A
BJP hold Swing

Corporator Election

Lucknow Municipal Corporation elections were conducted in November 2017.

S.No.Party NameParty flag or symbolNumber of CorporatorsChange
01Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)5814
02Samajwadi Party (SP)28New
02Indian National Congress (INC)83
04Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)2New
05Independents1440

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See also
  • List of municipal corporations of India

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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 December 2002. Retrieved 28 March 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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