The 2026 Uttarakhand Municipal elections were held on 9 June 2026 to elect members of 3 municipalities and on 22 September to elect 2 municipalities in the state whose election could not happen with 100 other municipalites in 2025. The election results to the first 2 municipal committees and 1 municipal council was declared on 11 June and the counting of votes and the declaration of results was done on 24 September for the other 2 municipal councils.
Though the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Narendranagar municipality's chairman post unopposed and won a majority of the wards in the municipality, it faced setbacks in the newly formed rural to urban bodies of Pati and Garhinegi. The elected chairpersons of Garhinegi and Pati were incidentally BJP rebels who had been denied ticket by the party. They affirmed their support to the party after their victory. While both the BJP and the Congress did not field candidates in wards of Pati and Garhinegi, Congress did not contest in any municipal chairman post. The party only fielded candidates in wards of Narendranagar municipality, of which it won 3. Ultimately both BJP and independent candidates emerged as the top getters securing 9 seats each.
Background The local body elections in Kichha, Pati, Sirauli Kalan (disputed at the time), Narendranagar and Garhinegi were initially delayed due to ward delimitation updates and caste-based reservation revisions. Following the declaration for the schedule for the 100 other urban local bodies in December 2024, the State Election Commission officially separated the remaining urban councils due to delayed boundary restructuring and prepared the rollout for the rural panchayat layout. Finally on 25 May 2026, the election commission announced the schedule for elections for these bodies. Despite this however, elections in Kichha remained suspended due to judicial and delimitation issues. Finally on 7 September the same year, the election commission announced the schedule for election to Kichha and the municipal council carved out of it, Sirauli Kalan.
Election schedule The election schedule was announced by the state election commission on 25 May 2026 for the municipalities of Pati, Garhinegi and Narendranagar. The schedule for Kichha and Sirauli Kalan was announced by the commission on 7 September 2026. + Schedule of 2026 Uttarakhand Local Body Elections Poll event Phases I II Notification date 27 May 2026 7 September 2026 Last date for filing nomination 29 May 2026 11 September 2026 Scrutiny of nomination 30 May 2026 12 September 2026 Last date for withdrawal of nomination 31 May 2026 13 September 2026 Allotment of symbols 1 June 2026 14 September 2026 Date of poll 9 June 2026 22 September 2026 Date of counting of votes 11 June 2026 24 September 2026
Parties and Alliance Alliance/PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats Contested (chairperson)Bharatiya Janata PartyMahendra Bhatt4Indian National CongressGanesh Godiyal2
Voter turnout District Seats (Chairpersons) Turnout (%)Tehri Garhwal156.62 (lowest)Champawat177.99Udham Singh Nagar3TBDTotal576.36
Results Municipal Council Chairperson + Municipal Council Chairperson election S. No. Municipal Council District Winning candidate Winning party Runner up Runner up party Margin 1 Narendranagar Tehri Garhwal Rajendra Vikram Singh Panwar Won uncontested 2 KichhaUdham Singh Nagar 3 Siroli Kalan
Nagar Panchayat Chairpersons + Nagar Panchayat Chairpersons election S. No. Nagar Panchayat District Winning candidate Winning party Runner up Runner up party Margin 1 Pati Champawat Narayan Lal Naveen Ram 164 2 Garhinegi Udham Singh Nagar Abhishekh Sukhija Sachin Bathla94
Party-wise + Municipal general election results Party Chairpersons Ward Members Total Seats +/- Seats +/- Seats +/- 1 4 3 5 3 0 3 2 3 2 2 2 11 6 13 8 Total3218112113
See also 2025 Uttarakhand local elections 2026 elections in India
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