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More than 3.48 crore voters volition formed their ballots connected Thursday (January 15, 2026) successful elections to 29 municipal corporations, including Mumbai, successful Maharashtra, choosing 2,869 corporators from among 15,908 candidates, pursuing an intense, high-pitched run by each six large governmental parties successful the State.
All eyes are connected the Mumbai municipal corporation, the country’s richest civic body, wherever cousins Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray person reunited aft 2 decades. In each different cities but Mumbai, voters volition formed aggregate votes for the archetypal clip to take aggregate corporators for each ward, nether the sheet system. In Mumbai, however, voters volition person to formed a azygous ballot owed to the accepted one-ward-one-corporator model.
Counting of votes volition beryllium held connected Friday (January 16, 2026).
On Wednesday (January 14, 2026), Maharashtra State Election Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare held a gathering with representatives of each registered governmental parties and elder constabulary officials to reappraisal canvass preparedness.
“Voting statement has been made astatine 39,092 polling booths crossed the State,” a State Election Commission spokesperson said.
Of the 3.48 crore voters, 1.81 crore are men, 1.66 crore are women, and 4,596 are different voters. Of the 39,092 polling stations, 3,196 person been declared sensitive. Voting volition beryllium conducted connected physics voting machines. Of the 43,958 power units and 87,916 ballot units, 11,349 power units and 22,698 ballot units person been deployed for Mumbai.
To guarantee instrumentality and order, The constabulary person deployed dozens of elder officers, on with 11,938 constables and 42,703 location guards. In all, 57 companies of the State Reserve Police Force person been deployed.
Mumbai scene
In Mumbai, 1,700 candidates are successful the fray for 227 wards. Polling volition beryllium held astatine 10,231 polling booths. In all, 64,375 authorities officials person been deployed for the creaseless behaviour of elections. The Congress, which refused to articulation hands with the Shiv Sena (UBT), is warring these elections on with Prakash Ambedkar’s Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi. On the different hand, the Thackeray cousins person joined hands aft 2 decades. They person the enactment of NCP(SP).
While the Shiv Sena (UBT) is contesting 163 seats, the Raj Thackeray enactment is warring 53. The NCP(SP) has been fixed 11 seats. The BJP is warring for 137 seats, portion Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena volition contention 90 seats.
The biggest question successful Mumbai is the plaything of the Marathi ballot bank, and whether it volition beryllium the deciding origin for immoderate party’s bulk successful the elections. The Shiv Sena (UBT) anticipates ballot part of the number assemblage and the backward communities owed to the divided successful Maha Vikas Aghadi, portion the BJP fears little elector turnout successful Mumbai.
While the BJP has been trying to summation astir seats successful the city, it has tried to allay Mr. Shinde’s fears astir mayoral position, saying numbers volition not beryllium the sole criterion to determine the Mumbai mayor.
