Opposition (15) Others (16) The Rishikesh Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the city of Rishikesh in Uttarakhand, India.

This corporation consists of 40 wards and is headed by a mayor who presides over a deputy mayor and 39 other corporators representing the wards.

The mayor is elected directly through a first-past-the-post voting system and the deputy mayor is elected by the corporators from among their numbers.

The current mayor of Rishikesh is Shambhu Paswan of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

[2] The Rishikesh Municipal Corporation holds direct elections every five years in the state and the latest elections were those held in the year 2025.