Urban local bodies · ward level

Municipal elections

Ward-level municipal elections · Bihar · 2017–2017

Ward candidates

15,413

Bihar · 2017–2017

Women ward winners

57.6%

1,520 of 2,640 winners

Local bodies

109

across 36 districts

Avg winner age

41.8

Elected ward members

[01]Ward winners by gender

Women's reservation lifts local-body representation well above Parliament

Women 1,52057.6%

Men 1,12042.4%

Ward candidate rows by body

Municipal Council 6,564

Nagar Panchayat 5,393

Municipal Corporation 3,456

Independents typically outpoll every party in local polls

SourceTCPD/CASI Urban Local Body dataset, ward-level municipal election results, this state

CoverageA partial tier: 1 states on record, 2017–2017; not every state holds (or has digitised) municipal polls