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CHAPTER – II CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF MUNICIPALITIES · The Municipal Board

Section 11-A: Delimitation of wards

The Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act 16 of 2026.

1[(1) For the purpose of election of members of a municipality every municipal area shall be divided into territorial constituencies to be known as wards in such manner that the population in each ward shall, so far as practicable, be the same, throughout the municipal area.

(2) Each ward shall be represented by one member in the municipality. ]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by sec. 85 of U. P. Act no. 12 of 1994.

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