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=Municipal Corporations=
==Shimla==
===2023===
[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/article-share?article=05_05_2023_016_006_cap_TOI   May 5, 2023: ''The Times of India'']

Shimla: The ruling Congress on Thursday swept the Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC) polls with two-third majority by winning 24 wards out of total 34, wresting the civic body from BJP.  

BJP captured nine wards while CPI-M managed to win just one ward, Shimla deputy commissioner Aditya Negi said. Both BJP and the Congress had fielded 34 candidates each and the CPI-M had put up four candidates. 

 AAP, which fielded 21 candidates, drew a blank in the polls. All the nine independents were also defeated. A total of 102 contestants were in the fray. 

 Congress had won the assembly polls in December 2022 winning 40 out of 68 seats. In the 2017 SMC elections, BJP had wrested the civic body from Congress for the first time in 32 years, winning 17 wards. Congress had won 12 wards, the CPI-M one and the rest four wards were captured by independent candidates. 

Congress had advantage in the civic polls as assembly constituen- cies of two cabinet ministers, Aniruddh Singh (Kasumpti) and Vikramaditya Singh (Shimla Rural), and the constituency of Congress MLA Harish Janartha (Shimla Urban) constituted the SMC area. The implementation of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) was a major factor in favour of Congress as the SMC has the highest number of government employees. 

About 59% polling was recorded in the SMC polls which was 1. 2% more than the 2017 SMC polls. The polls were held on party symbols. Atotal of 55,385 voters comprising 29,504 males and 25,881 females exercised their franchise out of the total 93,920 people on electoral rolls on May 2. The number further increased to 55,662 after the inclusion of 277 postal ballots. 

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