2008 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election

2008 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election

All 60 seats in the Dehradun Municipal Corporation 31 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Vinod Chamoli Surat Singh Negi Mohammad Zameer Party BJP INC BSP Leader's seat 28 24 1   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Vivekanand Khanduri none Party UKD Independent Leader's seat 1 6
Mayor before election Manorama Dobriyal Sharma INC Elected mayor Vinod Chamoli BJP

The 2008 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election was a municipal election to the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, which governs Dehradun, the largest city in Uttarakhand.

Vinod Chamoli of the Bharatiya Janata Party was elected mayor. The BJP won 28 of the 60 seats, and the Indian National Congress won 24.

Mayoral election

2008 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election: Mayor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vinod Chamoli	60,867	33.07
	Independent	Rajni Rawat	44,294	24.06
	INC	Surat Singh Negi	40,642	22.08
	UKD	Vivekanand Khanduri	17,116	9.30
	BSP	Mohammad Zameer	10,276	5.58
	Independent	Anjula Karki	2,984	1.62
	Independent	Aman Singh Pundir	2,228	1.21
	Independent	Sanjay Goyal	1,590	0.86
	SP	Subhash Panwar	1,357	0.74
	Independent	Manju Sharma	1,207	0.66
	JD(S)	Manmohan Singh Negi	668	0.36
	Independent	Azizur Rahman	444	0.24
	Independent	Prabhakar Uniyal	389	0.21
Majority			16,573	9.00
Turnout			1,84,062
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

Position of the house

Dehradun Municipal Corporation

Party		Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	28	12
	Indian National Congress (INC)	24	1
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	1	1
	Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD)	1	1
	Independents	6
Total		60

See also

• 2008 Uttarakhand local elections

External links

• Official Website of the Dehradun Municipal Corporation