The Rishikesh Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the city of Rishikesh in Uttarakhand, India.
Structure This corporation consists of 40 wards and is headed by a mayor who presides over a deputy mayor and 39 other corporators representing the wards. The mayor is elected directly through a first-past-the-post voting system and the deputy mayor is elected by the corporators from among their numbers.
List of mayors
+ S. No. Name Term Party1Anita Mamgain2 December 20183 December 2023Bharatiya Janata Party Administrator3 December 20236 February 2025 Government of Uttarakhand2Shambhu Paswan7 February 2025IncumbentBharatiya Janata Party
Current members Rishikesh Municipal Corporation has a total of 40 members or corporators, who are directly elected after a term of 5 years. The council is led by the Mayor. The latest elections were held in 23 January 2025. The current mayor of Rishikesh is Shambhu Paswan of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Mayor: Shambhu Paswan Ward No Ward Name Name of Corporator Party Remarks 1 Chandreshwar Nagar Kiran Yadav 2 Triveni Colony Roopa Devi 3 Durga Mandir Priyanka Yadav 4 Bhairav Mandir Pooja Nautiyal 5 Pushkar Mandir Devendra Kumar Prajapati 6 Adarshgram Chetan Chauhan 7 Mayakund Ajay Kumar Dass 8 Bharat Mandir Madhavi Gupta 9 Mukherjee Marg Reena 10 Sadanand Marg Anshu Dang 11 Ashutosh Nagar Bhagwan Singh Panwar 12 Pragati Vihar Sarojini Thapliyal 13 Valmiki Nagar Meghna 14 Subhash Nagar Simran 15 Maniram Marg Prabhakar Sharma 16 Tilak Marg Prince Dharmesh Manchanda 17 Ganga Vihar Ram Kumar Sangar 18 Shanti Nagar Rajesh Kumar 19 Someshwar Mandir Payal Bisht 20 Ganga Nagar Sandhya Bisht Goyal 21 Upper Ganganagar Sunita Bhardwaj 22 Shastri Nagar Reha Sanjay Dhyani 23 Sarvahara Nagar Veer Pal 24 Bharat Vihar Tanu Vikas Tewatia 25 Awas Vikas Jyoti Ashok Paswan 26 Shivaji Nagar Surendra Singh Negi 27 Bairaj Marg Abhinav Singh 28 Veerbhadra Mandir Luv Kamboj 29 Bees Bigha Sachvir Singh Bhandari 30 Meeranagar Harshvardhan Rawat 31 Bapugram Muskan Defected to BJP 32 Suman Vihar Anil Rawat 33 Geeta Nagar Dinesh Singh Rawat 34 Malviya Nagar Rajesh Kothiyal 35 Amitgram East Satya Prakash 36 Amitgram West Virendra Singh Ramola 37 Manasa Devi Vinod Nath 38 Indira Nagar Rajendra Bisht 39 Nehrugram Sanjay Bisht 40 THDC Pushkar Bangwal
Election results The Rishikesh Municipal Corporation holds direct elections every five years in the state and the latest elections were those held in the year 2025.
Mayoral YearNo. of WardsWinnerRunner UpMarginPartyCandidateVotes%PartyCandidateVotes%202540Shambhu Paswan23,99841.38Dinesh Chandra20,97836.173,020
Ward-wise 2025 Rishikesh Municipal CorporationParty Won +/− Bharatiya Janata Party 18 3 Independents 16 Indian National Congress 6 3Total 40
See also 2025 Rishikesh Municipal Corporation election
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