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All 66 [a] seats in the Karimnagar Municipal Corporation 34 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 3,48,051 [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 2,14,486 (62.98%) [2]  0.8pp [3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2026 Karimnagar Municipal Corporation election was held on 11 February 2026 to elect the corporators in 66 wards of the Karimnagar Municipal Corporation, the governing body of Karimnagar. [4] [5] After merging the surrounding areas into the corporation limits, the numbers of wards were delimited and increased from 60 to 66. [6]
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The Bharatiya Janata Party won 30 out of 66 seats and emerged as the single largest party. [7] The party is expected to form the government after 4 independent and 1 AIFB members joined the party, thus giving it an absolute majority. [8] [9] The Bharat Rashtra Samiti, which had won the majority in the previous election, suffered significant decline, securing just 9 seats.
Elected ward members and corporators will be administered the oath of office on 16 February 2026, and a special meeting for the election of mayor and deputy mayor. [10]