BJP sweeps mayoral polls, Arun Sood new mayor of Chandigarh , Chandigarh municipal corporation elections 2016, Chandigarh municipal corporation elections result,list of Chandigarh mayor ,Chandigarh mayor, senior deputy mayor , deputy mayor election result
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BJP sweeps mayoral polls, Arun Sood new mayor of Chandigarh , Chandigarh municipal corporation elections2016, Chandigarh municipal corporation electionsresult,list of Chandigarh mayor ,Chandigarh mayor, senior deputy mayor , deputy mayor election result,BHARTIYA JANATA PARTY
Finally after a gap of 15 years, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) alliance bagged the top position in the Chandigarh municipal corporation elections held on Friday.
All the three posts - mayor, senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor - were bagged by the BJP.
The party councillor, Arun Sood, was elected the mayor of the union territory. Sood defeated his rival and Congress councillor Mukesh Bassi by a margin of six votes.
Out of the total 36 votes polled, Sood got 21, while Bassi got 15 votes.
BJP’s Davish Moudgill won the post of deputy senior mayor. Moudgill, who got 23 votes, defeated Congress representative Darshan Garg.
The deputy mayor’s post was won by Hardeep Singh , who won by six votes.
List of Mayor's
| S.No. | Name | From | To |
| 1. | Smt. Kamla Sharma | 23-12-96 | 22-12-97 |
| 2. | Sh. Gian Chand Gupta | 23-12-97 | 22-12-98 |
| 3. | Sh. Kewal Krishan Addiwal | 23-12-98 | 22-12-99 |
| 4. | Sh. Shanta Hit Abhilashi | 23-12-99 | 22-12-00 |
| 5. | Sh. Raj Kumar Goyal | 23-12-00 | 21-07-01 |
| 6. | Sh. Gurcharan Dass (Acting) | 22-07-01 | 17-08-01 |
| 7. | Smt. Harjinder Kaur | 18-08-01 | 22-12-01 |
| 8. | Smt. Lalit Joshi | 01-01-02 | 31-12-02 |
| 9. | Sh. Subhash Chawla | 01-01-03 | 31-12-03 |
| 10. | Smt. Kamlesh | 01-01-04 | 31-12-04 |
| 11. | Smt. Anu Chatrath | 01-01-05 | 31-12-05 |
| 12. | Sh. Surinder Singh | 01-01-06 | 31-12-06 |
| 13. | Ms.Harjinder Kaur | 11-01-07 | 31-12-07 |
| 14. | Sh. Pardeep Chhabra | 01-01-08 | 31-12-08 |
| 15. | Smt. Kamlesh | 01.01.09 | 31.12.09 |
| 16. | Smt. Anu Chatrath | 01.01.10 | 31.12.10 |
| 17. | Sh. Ravinder Pal Singh | 01.01.11 | 31.12.11 |
| 16. | Smt. Raj Bala Malik | 01.01.12 | 31.12.12 |
| 17. | Sh. Subhash Chawla | 01.01.13 | 31.12.13 |
| 18. | Sh. Harphool Chander Kalyan | 01.01.14 | 05.01.15 |
| 19. | Smt Poonam Sharma | 06.01.15 | 07.01.16 |
| 20. | Sh. Arun Sood | 08.01.16 | -- |