2023 Lucknow Municipal Corporation election

2023 Lucknow Municipal Corporation election
All 110 seats of Lucknow Municipal Corporation; 56 seats needed for a majority
Incumbent Mayor; Sanyukta Bhatia; BJP	; ;

The 2023 Lucknow Municipal Corporation election is an upcoming election for the members of Lucknow Municipal Corporation which governs Lucknow, the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The dates and the schedule are yet to be announced by the SEC and the elections are likely to take place in February 2023.

Schedule

Election Event	Schedule
Date of issue of notification of election	TBD
Last date of filling nomination	TBD
Scrutiny of nominations	TBD
Last date for withdrawal of nomination	TBD
Date of allotting symbols	TBD
Date of poll	TBD
Date of counting votes	TBD

Background

The delimitation process has been done by SEC after which the number of wards is same as it was earlier, but the several wards has been bifurcated and many of the wards are got merged into single.^[1] The Lucknow Mayoral seat has been given unreserved reservation this time by the commission unlike in the previous elections.^[2]

After the 2017 LMC elections, Sanyukta Bhatia of Bharatiya Janata Party who got about 41.94% of total votes cast in the election became the first female mayor of Lucknow^[1] with the absolute majority of NDA in the house.^[2]

There were 14 candidates who won independently from their wards in 2017 LMC elections.