Sikkim, Feb 25: State Election Commission Nima L Yethenpa announced the dates for Sikkim Municipal Elections 2021 on Thursday.
Here is the details of the Sikkim Municipal Elections 2021:
- Issue Notifications: 01.03.2021 (Monday)
- As the last date for making Nomination: 08.03.2021 (Monday)
- As the date for scrutiny of Nomination: 09.03.2021(Tuesday)
- As the last date for withdrawal of candidature: 11.03.2021 (Thursday)
- As the date on which poll shall if necessary be taken: 31.03.2021 (Wednesday)
- As the date before which the election shall be completed: 06.04.2021 (Tuesday)
- Counting of votes: 03.04.2021 (Saturday)
- The seven civic bodies are Gangtok Municipal Corporation (17 wards), Namchi Municipal Council (7), Jorethang Municipal Council (7), Gyalshing Municipal Council (7), Singtam Nagar panchayat (5), Rangpo Nagar panchayat (5) and Mangan Nagar panchayat (5).
Unlike in the last civic polls that were held in October 2015, the next elections would be held on a non-partisan basis this time after the P.S. Tamang (Golay)-headed Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) government amended the Sikkim Municipality Act 2007 in September requiring candidates to contest the polls in their individual capacity and not under the banner of any political party.
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In the last elections, the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) had made a clean sweep, winning all 53 wards in the seven civic bodies. The SKM, which was then in the opposition, had drawn a blank.
Sources in the state election commission said the revised electoral rolls for the civic bodies were being prepared and would be notified soon.
