On Wednesday, the BJP could get only 26 out of 43 seats of chairmen in the urban body elections held on August 11 in the State, while the Congress managed to bag 14 seats. Three seats were claimed by independent candidates.
The BJP candidates who emerged victorious are Nirmala Dawar from Chandershekar Azad Nagar in Alirajpur, Ram Bahadur Dohar from Jaitwar in Satna, Sunita from Ranapur in Jhabua, Sohan Nana from Thandla in Jhabua, Manohar Bhatewara from Petlawad in Jhabua, Urmila Rani Jeetin from Shahdol, Pankaj Singh Tomar from Dindori, Rajesh Chouhan from Nepanagar in Burhanpur, Mohini Dharmendra Verma from Kotma in Anuppur, Santosh Malviya from Chicholi in Betul, Pushpabai Ramnivas Patel from Chanera in Khandwa, Manish Manoj Sharma from Mandleshwar in Khargone, Ashok Bhartiya from Jaysingh Nagar in Shahdol, Aarti Mourya from Dabra in Gwalior.
The Congress candidates won the election are — Sapna Kamble from Mohgaon in Chhindwara, Manjusha Narendra Sharma from Sanawad in Khargone, Hemant Jain from Maheshwar in Khargone, Rajesh Gupta from Shahpur in Dindori, laxman Chake from Sansaur in Chhindwara, Pushpa Sahu from Junnardeo in Chhindwara and Mannu Dodiya from Jhabua Municipal Council.
State Election Commissioner R Parshuram said that the counting was done at headquarters and during the counting security arrangements were made.
He said that in the elections conduced on August 11, 8 lakh voters exercised their voting rights. For the post of president 161 and for corporator 2133 candidates contested and results were declared on Wednesday.