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Maharashtra Municipal Corporation Election Result 2026 Live

Voting ended at 5:30 pm on Thursday (January 15, 2025) for 29 municipal corporations, including Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the richest municipal body in the country. The fate of a total of 1,700 candidates for 227 wards in the Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections is to be decided shortly. Counting of votes will start from 10 am on Friday (January 16, 2026), whereas usually the opening of votes starts from 8 am.

BMC is Asia’s largest municipal body with a budget of more than Rs 74,000 crore in 2025-26, due to which this election is being watched across the country. State Election Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare said that more than 3.48 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in these municipal bodies of major urban centers of Maharashtra. Out of 29 municipal corporations, Ichalkaranji and Jalna municipal bodies are newly formed bodies.

The last election of Mumbai Municipal Corporation was held in the year 2017, whose term ended in 2022. However, elections were never held again after that and the matter reached the Supreme Court. This election is taking place at a time when Shiv Sena and NCP have broken and the party is divided into two groups. There is an alliance between BJP-Shiv Sena (Shinde faction). BJP is contesting on 137 seats while Shinde’s Shiv Sena has fielded candidates on 90 seats.

On the other hand, Thackeray Brothers have come together. Shiv Sena UBT has formed alliance with MNS. Shiv Sena (UBT) contested on 163 seats and MNS on 52 seats. Congress formed an alliance with Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA). Congress is contesting on 143 seats and VBA on 46 seats. Ajit Pawar’s NCP has not joined hands with any party and is contesting elections on 94 seats.

There are many such VIP seats in this election, on which everyone is keeping an eye. Kishori Pednekar (Shiv Sena UBT) from Ward 193 Khar-Santa Cruz, Ravi Raja (BJP) from Ward 205 Goregaon West, Tejasvi Ghoshalkar (BJP) from Ward 179 Bandra West, Harshvardhan Sapkal (Congress) from Ward 214 Andheri East, Rahul Shewale (Shiv Sena Shinde faction) from Ward 224 Mulund West. It is included in those seats where the contest is expected to be interesting.

Voting was held on Thursday (January 15) for the elections of 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra. Voting for 2,869 seats in 893 wards in the state started at 7:30 am and ended at 5:30 pm. Today, on January 16, votes will be counted and the political future of 15,931 candidates will be decided.

The fate of 1,700 candidates for 227 seats in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections was sealed in EVMs. This is the first BMC elections after the split of Shiv Sena in 2022. The undivided Shiv Sena has ruled the country’s richest BMC for 25 years. In the 2017 municipal elections, BJP had captured the maximum number of 1099 seats in the state.

Which party will hold how many seats in the 2017 elections?

The last time municipal elections were held in Maharashtra was in 2017. BJP is in control of 1099 seats in the state. Which is 31.3 percent of the total seats. Undivided Shiv Sena had won 489 seats in the last elections, which is 18.49% percent. Congress had won 439 seats, which is 15.53 percent of the total seats. The undivided NCP had captured 294 seats, which is 11.06 percent. Whereas other parties had won 294 seats.

• BJP-1099-(31.3%)
• Shiv Sena- 489(18.49%)
• Congress- 439 (15.53%)
• NCP- 294 (11.06%)
• Others- 415

Elections of 29 metropolitan municipalities were held after 6 years.

Elections to a total of 29 metropolitan municipalities in Maharashtra have been held after a gap of more than six years. In the election battle, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Navi Mumbai, Vasai-Virar, Kalyan-Dombivli, Kolhapur, Nagpur, Mumbai, Solapur, Amravati, Akola, Nashik, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pune, Ulhasnagar, Thane, Chandrapur, Parbhani, Mira-Bhayander, Nanded-Waghala, Panvel, Pandey Bhiwandi-Nizampur, Latur, Malegaon, Sangli-Miraj-Kupwad, Jalgaon, Ahilyanagar, Dhule, Jalna and Ichalkaranji are included.

Which party contested elections on how many seats in BMC?

According to the final distribution of seats in Mumbai, BJP contested on 137 seats and Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde on 90 seats. At the same time, Mahayuti’s constituent party Ajit Pawar’s NCP fielded a separate candidate for 94 seats. Shiv Sena (UBT) fielded 163 candidates, MNS 52, Congress 143 and VBA 46. Congress fielded 1,263 candidates in the rest of the state. Everyone’s fate will be decided on January 16.