Maharashtra civic polls LIVE: Spotlight on Mumbai as 29 civic bodies go to polls today

BMC employees transportation the elections materials for towards the polling some successful Dadar connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini

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.

More than 3.48 crore voters volition formed their ballots connected Thursday (January 15, 2026) successful elections to 29 municipal corporations, including Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), 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.

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.