2026 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election
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The 2026 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election will be held on December 2026 tentatively to elect 144 members of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) which governs Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.[1][2][3][4]
Schedule
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Parties and alliances
Following is a list of political parties and alliances which may contest in this election:
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Alliance | No. of contesting candidates | |||||
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| All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) | .svg.png){kind=small}
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Firhad Hakim | AITC+ | TBD | - | TBD | TBD | ||
| Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 
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Meena Devi Purohit | NDA | TBD | |||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) | 
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Nandita Roy | Left Front | TBD | |||||
| Communist Party of India (CPI) | 
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Madhuchhanda Deb | TBD | ||||||
| All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) | 
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TBD | TBD | ||||||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) | 
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TBD | TBD | ||||||
| Marxist Forward Bloc (MFB) | - |
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TBD | TBD | ||||||
| Revolutionary Communist Party of India (RCPI) |
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TBD | TBD | |||||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPI(ML)L) | 
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- | TBD | TBD | ||||||
| Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) (SUCI(C)) | 
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| Indian National Congress (INC) | 
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Santosh Kumar Pathak | INDIA | TBD | |||||
| Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP(SP)) | TBD | TBD | ||||||||
| Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) | 
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TBD | None | TBD | |||||
| Independents (IND) | None | TBD | ||||||||
| Others | TBD | |||||||||
Candidates
Voters Turnout
| No. of Voters | No. of Voters who cast votes | Voters Turnout (%) |
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Surveys and polls
Seat Projections
| Name of the election | Date | AITC+ | NDA | LF | INDIA | IND | Margin |
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| 2021 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election | 19 December 2021 | 134 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 131 |
| 2024 Indian general election in West Bengal[1] | 1 June 2024 | 95 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 52 |
Opinion Polls
Exit Polls
Result
Results by Parties
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| AITC | BJP | INC | CPI(M) | CPI | IND |
| Alliance | Party | Seats | Popular Vote (%) | |||||||||
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| Contested | Won | Change | Earned Second Position | |||||||||
| Party-wise | Alliance-wise | Party-wise | Alliance-wise | Party-wise | Alliance-wise | Change (%) | ||||||
| AITC+ | AITC | |||||||||||
| NDA | BJP | |||||||||||
| Left Front | CPI(M) | |||||||||||
| CPI | ||||||||||||
| RSP | ||||||||||||
| AIFB | ||||||||||||
| MFB | ||||||||||||
| RCPI | ||||||||||||
| CPI(ML)L | ||||||||||||
| SUCI(C) | ||||||||||||
| INDIA | INC | |||||||||||
| NCP-SP | ||||||||||||
| None | Independent | |||||||||||
| Others | ||||||||||||
| Total Polled Votes / Voter Turnout | ||||||||||||
| Registered Voters | ||||||||||||
Results by Wards
See also
- Kolkata Municipal Corporation
- 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
- 2023 West Bengal Panchayat elections
- 2024 Indian general election in West Bengal
- 2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
- 2026 elections in India
References
- ^ a b "Welcome to KolkataMyCity.com". 15 May 2006. Archived from the original on 15 May 2006. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
- ^ "Eye on 2026 Bengal polls, TMC, BJP set out to recover lost ground in festive season". Hindustan Times. 3 March 2024.
- ^ "TMC trailed BJP in several parts of Kolkata; Mamata Banerjee seeks report". Hindustan Times. 10 June 2024.
- ^ "Welcome to KolkataMyCity.com". 12 July 2006. Archived from the original on 12 July 2006. Retrieved 10 March 2025.