2025 local body elections: SEC issues notification on the allocation of election symbols

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Ahead of the 2025 section assemblage polls, the State Election Commission has published an updated database of predetermination symbols and the governmental parties to which they person been assigned.

The symbols and nationalist parties are arsenic follows:

Communist Party of India (Marxist) - Hammer, Sickle and Star; Indian National Congress - Hand; Bharatiya Janata Party - Lotus; Bahujan Samaj Party - Elephant; Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) - Broom; National People’s Party - Book.

The symbols and State parties are arsenic follows:

Communist Party of India - Ears of Corn and Sickle; Indian Union Muslim League - Ladder; Revolutionary Socialist Party - Spade and Stoker; Kerala Congress (M) - Two Leaves; Kerala Congress - Autorickshaw, and Janata Dal (Secular) - Woman husbandman carrying paddy connected her head.

In summation to these, symbols person been allotted to 28 State parties of different States and UTs, registered unrecognised governmental parties with member/members successful the Kerala Legislative Assembly oregon member/members successful immoderate of the section bodies successful Kerala.

Further, the Commission has besides published a database of 78 ‘free symbols’ for autarkic candidates. This database besides includes symbols allotted to registered unrecognised parties not mentioned successful the aforementioned list. Some of the symbols person been allotted to parties connected ‘priority basis.’

The Commission had published a draught database of symbols connected September 19 this year. The last notification has been published aft examining the claims and ibjections raised by governmental parties. The Election Commission of India’s September 19 bid connected the delisting of registered unrecognised governmental parties (RUPPs) besides was taken into accounts erstwhile finalising the list, the State Commission said.

Published - November 03, 2025 07:24 p.m. IST

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