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The BJP and its Mahayuti state Shiv Sena were up of their rivals arsenic per the aboriginal trends of the section assemblage elections successful Maharashtra connected Monday (February 9, 2026), establishing a pb successful 200 and 137 Zilla Parishad seats, respectively.
Counting of votes for elections to 12 Zilla Parishads and 125 Panchayat Samitis began astatine 10 a.m.
While determination was nary authoritative confirmation from the State Election Commission, TV channels reported that the BJP has established a pb successful 200 retired of 731 seats and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena successful 137 seats of Zilla Parishads till 2 p.m.
The NCP is up successful 120 seats, Congress 46, Shiv Sena (UBT) 33, NCP (SP) 13, and others successful 29.
The polls were held connected Saturday successful 12 Zilla Parishads — Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Pune, Satara, Sangli, Solapur, Kolhapur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Parbhani, Dharashiv and Latur — to elite 731 members on with 1,462 seats successful 125 Panchayat Samitis nether their jurisdiction.
A full of 2,624 candidates contested the Zilla Parishad polls, and 4,814 candidates were successful the fray for the Panchayat Samiti elections.
The results are expected to signifier the aboriginal people for the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) factions of precocious Ajit Pawar and enactment laminitis Sharad Pawar.
The 2 factions had acceptable speech their bitter two-year rivalry to contention these section assemblage polls successful an informal confederation successful Pune, Satara, Solapur, and Sangli, wherever candidates from some sides contested nether the archetypal 'clock' symbol.
