West Bengal Municipal Election: TMC drowns the opposition in Hooghly

Out of the 270 municipal wards in the Hooghly district of West Bengal, the TMC has won over 200 wards, leaving the opposition BJP, Left and Congress far behind.

West Bengal Municipal Election 2022 Hooghly district municipalities

Team Newsable

Hooghly, First Published Mar 2, 2022, 12:01 PM IST

Out of the 270 municipal wards in the Hooghly district of West Bengal, the TMC has won over 200 wards, leaving the opposition BJP, Left and Congress far behind. Let's take a look at the party-wise breakup:

Trinamool
Leads: 7
Results: 203

BJP
Leads: 0
Results: 4

Left
Leads: 1
Results: 7

Congress
Leads: 1
Results: 7

Independents
Leads: 0
Results: 17

Voting for 12 municipalities in the Hooghly district was held pm February 27. Voting took place in a total of 1,394 booths in 260 wards in a dozen municipalities. There were at least 1056 candidates in the fray. The total electorate who were eligible to cast their vote was 11,26,835. During the voting phase, 600 police personnel were deployed at three municipalities in Hooghly rural area. There were officers of the rank of DSP and Additional SP. Around 3,000 police were deployed for nine municipalities in the Chandannagar Police Commissionerate area. Each booth had armed police and CCTV surveillance.

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Last Updated Mar 2, 2022, 3:29 PM IST