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Urban local bodies · Uttar Pradesh

770 municipal bodies with 13,018 wards: 17 municipal corporations, 200 municipalities, 8 notified area councils and 545 nagar panchayats. 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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  • Municipal Corporation17
  • Municipality200
  • Notified Area Council8
  • Nagar Panchayat545

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Urban local bodies
#1 of 35 states/UTs
13,018
Wards
770 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 Uttar Pradesh.

Municipal Corporation
17
1,185 wards
Municipality
200
5,068 wards
Notified Area Council
8
8 wards
Nagar Panchayat
545
6,757 wards
Wards in total
13,018
about 17 per body, on average
Mapped to assembly seats
770 of 770
384 assembly seats cover an urban ward

Largest by number of wards

  1. Municipal Corporation · Kanpur NagarKanpur112wards · 7 assembly seats
  2. Municipal Corporation · LucknowLucknow110wards · 7 assembly seats
  3. Municipal Corporation · AgraAgra100wards · 4 assembly seats
  4. Municipal Corporation · VaranasiVaranasi92wards · 3 assembly seats
  5. Municipal Corporation · BareillyBareilly80wards · 2 assembly seats
  6. Municipal Corporation · GorakhpurGorakhpur80wards · 2 assembly seats
  7. Municipal Corporation · PrayagrajPrayagraj77wards · 3 assembly seats
  8. Municipal Corporation · MeerutMeerut70wards · 3 assembly seats
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770 of 770 local bodies

Local bodyTypeDistrictWardsAssembly seats
Achal GanjNagar PanchayatUnnao15Bhagwantnagar
AchhaldaNagar PanchayatAuraiya10Dibiyapur
AchhneraMunicipalityAgra25Fatehpur Sikri
AdariNagar PanchayatMau10Ghosi
AfzalgarhMunicipalityBijnor25Barhapur
Agarwal MandiNagar PanchayatBaghpat11Baghpat
AgawanpurNagar PanchayatMoradabad15Kanth
AgraMunicipal CorporationAgra100EtmadpurAgra Cantt.Agra South+1 more
AhrauraMunicipalityMirzapur25Marihan
AilumNagar PanchayatShamli12Shamli
AitNagar PanchayatJalaun12Orai
AjhuwaNagar PanchayatKaushambi12Sirathu
AkbarpurMunicipalityAmbedkar Nagar25Akbarpur
AkbarpurNagar PanchayatKanpur Dehat12Akbarpur - Raniya
AliganjMunicipalityEtah25Aliganj
AligarhMunicipal CorporationAligarh60KoilAligarh
AllahganjNagar PanchayatShahjahanpur10Jalalabad
AllapurNagar PanchayatBudaun15Dataganj
AmanpurNagar PanchayatKasganj10Amanpur
AmbehtaNagar PanchayatSaharanpur11Gangoh
Amethi(Amethi)Nagar PanchayatAmethi11Amethi
Amethi(Lucknow)Nagar PanchayatLucknow11Mohanlalganj
AmilaNagar PanchayatMau10Ghosi
Aminagar SaraiNagar PanchayatBaghpat10Baghpat
AmraudhaaNagar PanchayatKanpur Dehat10Bhognipur
AmrohaMunicipalityAmroha40Amroha
AnandnagarNagar PanchayatMahrajganj10Pharenda
AnparaNagar PanchayatSonbhadra21Obra
AntuNagar PanchayatPratapgarh10Pratapgarh
AnupshahrMunicipalityBulandshahr25Anupshahr
AonlaMunicipalityBareilly25Aonla
Ashrafpur KichhauchhaNagar PanchayatAmbedkar Nagar10Tanda
AsotharNagar PanchayatFatehpur15Ayah Shah
AtarraMunicipalityBanda25Naraini
AtasuNagar PanchayatAuraiya10Auraiya
AtrauliMunicipalityAligarh27Atrauli
AtrauliaNagar PanchayatAzamgarh10Atrauliya
AuraiyaMunicipalityAuraiya25Auraiya
AurangabadNagar PanchayatBulandshahr13Bulandshahr
AurasNagar PanchayatUnnao11Mohan
AwagarhNagar PanchayatEtah10Jalesar
AyodhyaMunicipal CorporationAyodhya25Ayodhya
AzamgarhMunicipalityAzamgarh25Azamgarh
AzmatgarhNagar PanchayatAzamgarh10Sagri
BaansiMunicipalitySiddharthnagar25Bansi
Babarpur AjitmalNagar PanchayatAuraiya15Auraiya
BaberuNagar PanchayatBanda11Baberu
Babhnan BazarNagar PanchayatBasti14Harraiya
BabralaaNagar PanchayatSambhal12Gunnaur
BabugarhNagar PanchayatHapur10Hapur
BachhraonMunicipalityAmroha25Dhanaura
BachhrawanNagar PanchayatRae Bareli10Bachhrawan
Bada GaonNagar PanchayatJhansi10Babina
Badhani BazarNagar PanchayatDeoria11Rampur Karkhana
Badhani ChafaNagar PanchayatSiddharthnagar16Domariyaganj
BadlapurNagar PanchayatJaunpur15Badlapur
Baghnagar Urf BakhiraNagar PanchayatSant Kabir Nagar18Menhdawal
BaghpatMunicipalityBaghpat25Baghpat
BahMunicipalityAgra25Bah
BahadurganjNagar PanchayatGhazipur12Zahoorabad

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FAQ

Answers use the Local Government Directory entries for the state.

How many urban local bodies are there in Uttar Pradesh?

The Local Government Directory lists 770 urban local bodies in Uttar Pradesh: 17 municipal corporations, 200 municipalities, 8 notified area councils and 545 nagar panchayats. Together they have 13,018 wards on record. That is the highest number among the 35 states and union territories in the directory.

Which urban local body in Uttar Pradesh has the most wards?

Kanpur Municipal Corporation has the most wards in the directory, 112. It is followed by Lucknow Municipal Corporation (110) and Agra Municipal Corporation (100). Ward counts change after each delimitation, so check the latest State Election Commission notification before planning.

How many municipal corporations are there in Uttar Pradesh?

There are 17 municipal corporations: Agra, Aligarh, Ayodhya, Bareilly, Firozabad, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mathura-Vrindavan, Meerut, Moradabad, Prayagraj, Saharanpur, Shahjahanpur, Varanasi. Corporations govern the largest cities; each ward elects one councillor (corporator).

Who conducts municipal elections in Uttar Pradesh?

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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