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Urban local bodies · Goa

14 municipal bodies with 226 wards: 1 municipal corporation and 13 municipalities. Every body below links to its ward list and the assembly and Lok Sabha seats that cover it, from the Local Government Directory as of 25 September 2026.

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Urban local bodies
#27 of 35 states/UTs
226
Wards
14 bodies with ward lists
Districts
with at least one body
At a glance

Counts from the Local Government Directory. Names of types follow what the directory uses for Goa.

Municipal Corporation
1
30 wards
Municipality
13
196 wards
Wards in total
226
about 16 per body, on average
Mapped to assembly seats
14 of 14
14 assembly seats cover an urban ward

Largest by number of wards

  1. Municipal Corporation · North GoaCity Corporation Panaji30wards · 1 assembly seat
  2. Municipality · South GoaMargao25wards · 1 assembly seat
  3. Municipality · South GoaMormugao25wards · 1 assembly seat
  4. Municipality · North GoaMapusa20wards · 1 assembly seat
  5. Municipality · KushavatiCurchorem Cacora15wards · 1 assembly seat
  6. Municipality · South GoaPonda15wards · 1 assembly seat
  7. Municipality · North GoaBicholim14wards · 1 assembly seat
  8. Municipality · South GoaCuncolim14wards · 1 assembly seat
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14 of 14 local bodies

Local bodyTypeDistrictWardsAssembly seats
BicholimMunicipalityNorth Goa14Bicholim
CanaconaMunicipalityKushavati12Canacona
City Corporation PanajiMunicipal CorporationNorth Goa30Panaji
CuncolimMunicipalitySouth Goa14Cuncolim
Curchorem CacoraMunicipalityKushavati15Curchorem
MapusaMunicipalityNorth Goa20Mapusa
MargaoMunicipalitySouth Goa25Margao
MormugaoMunicipalitySouth Goa25Mormugao
PernemMunicipalityNorth Goa10Pernem
PondaMunicipalitySouth Goa15Ponda
QuepemMunicipalityKushavati13Quepem
SanguemMunicipalityKushavati10Sanguem
SankhaliMunicipalityNorth Goa13Sanquelim
ValpoiMunicipalityNorth Goa10Valpoi

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FAQ

Answers use the Local Government Directory entries for the state.

How many urban local bodies are there in Goa?

The Local Government Directory lists 14 urban local bodies in Goa: 1 municipal corporation and 13 municipalities. Together they have 226 wards on record. That is the 27th highest number among the 35 states and union territories in the directory.

Which urban local body in Goa has the most wards?

City Corporation Panaji has the most wards in the directory, 30. It is followed by Margao Municipality (25) and Mormugao Municipality (25). Ward counts change after each delimitation, so check the latest State Election Commission notification before planning.

How many municipal corporations are there in Goa?

There is one municipal corporation: City Corporation Panaji. Corporations govern the largest cities; each ward elects one councillor (corporator).

Who conducts municipal elections in Goa?

The State Election Commission, not the Election Commission of India. It prepares the ward electoral rolls, notifies ward reservation and conducts the polls for every municipal body listed here. Results are published by the commission, ward by ward.

Source: Local Government Directory (lgdirectory.gov.in), Ministry of Panchayati Raj, as of 25 September 2026, via the open daily mirror at github.com/ramSeraph/opendata. Used under the Government Open Data License - India. Ward-to-constituency mapping is as recorded in the directory and may lag behind the latest delimitation. Cantonment boards are not part of the directory’s urban list and are not counted.

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