Maharashtra civic polls record 54.77% turnout; BJP, Shiv Sena (UBT) lead in key corporations

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BJP workers observe  a party’s candidate’s triumph  successful  the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) elections, astatine  Kopar Khairane, successful  Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, Friday, January 16, 2026.

BJP workers observe a party’s candidate’s triumph successful the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) elections, astatine Kopar Khairane, successful Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, Friday, January 16, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI

A time aft the predetermination ended, State Election Commission (SEC) connected Friday (January 16, 2026) released the elector turnout percent which recorded astatine 54.77% successful the elections held for 29 municipal corporations successful Maharashtra.

The highest turnout was recorded successful Ichalkaranji astatine 69.76%, portion Mira Bhayandar reported the lowest astatine 48.64%.

Among large municipal corporations, Mumbai recorded a turnout of 52.94%, Thane 55.59%, Nashik 56.67%, Pune 52.42% and Nagpur 51.38%.

Polling for the 29 municipal corporations concluded connected Thursday, with counting of votes underway connected Friday. According to the SEC, turnout successful different civic bodies included Kalyan Dombivli (50.32%), Navi Mumbai (57.15%), Akola (55.61%), Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (59.82%), Nanded Waghala (61.37%), Parbhani (65.99%), Amravati (54.10%), Chandrapur (56.89%), Jalna (61.16%), Latur (60.08%), Malegaon (64.08%), Dhule (56.73%), Ulhasnagar (52.10%), Bhiwandi Nizampur (53.43%), Vasai Virar (57.12%), Panvel (55.67%), Kolhapur (66.53%), Sangli Miraj Kupwad (61.03%), Jalgaon (53.60%), Ahilyanagar (64.67%), Pimpri Chinchwad (57.71%) and Solapur (53.02%).

Meanwhile, according to figures released by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the Bharatiya Janata Party is starring successful 72 seats, followed by Shiv Sena (UBT) with 60 seats, the Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde with 25 seats, Congress with 19 seats, AIMIM with 7 seats, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena with 5 seats, Nationalist Congress Party with 2 seats, Nationalist Congress Party (SP) with one, Samajwadi Party with 2 seats, and others successful the remaining wards.

AIMIM won 5 seats successful Govandi and 1 successful Chittanagar.

Here is the BMC’s officially released winners’ database connected respective seats 

Bharatiya Janata Party*

Ward 2: Tejashvi Goshalkar

Ward 3: Prakash Derekar

Ward 4: Mangesh Pangare

Ward 9: Shivanan Shetty

Ward 10: Jitendra Patel

Ward 20: Deepak Tawade

Ward 21: Leena Dehekar

Ward 22: Himanshu Parekh

Ward 23: Shivkumar Jha

Ward 35: Yogesh Verma

Ward 36: Siddharth Sharma

Ward 50: Vikram Rajput

Ward 52: Preeti Satam

Ward 103: Hetal Morvekar

Ward 104: Prakash Gandhare

Ward 106: Prabhakar Shinde

Ward 126: Archana Bhalerao

Ward 172: Rajeshshri Shirvadkar

Ward 173: Shilpa Kelaskar

Shiv Sena (UBT)

Ward 1: Rekha Yadav

Ward 32: Geeta Bhandari

Ward 37: Yogita Kadam

Ward 39: Pushpa Kalambe

Ward 53: Jitender Valvi

Ward 83: Sonali Sabe

Ward 87: Pooja Mahadeshwar

Ward 88: Sharwari Parab

Ward 123: Sunil More

Ward 124: Samina Shaikh

Ward 182: Milind Vaidya

Ward 187: Joseph Koli

Indian National Congress

Ward 33: Kamarjha Siddique

Ward 90: Tulip Miranda

Ward 183: Asha Kale

Ward 184: Babbu Khan

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)

Ward 38: Surekha Parab

Shiv Sena (Shinde faction)

Ward 51: Varsha Tembalkar

Ward 1: Rekha Yadav

Unopposed candidates 

The State Election Commission earlier announced that 65 candidates were elected unopposed crossed 10 civic bodies successful Maharashtra. Most of the unopposed winners were from the BJP and the Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde. The results were declared aft the SEC received and examined reports from the municipal commissioners of the acrophobic civic bodies. Certificates to the unopposed winners are to beryllium issued connected Friday (January 16, 2026).

Published - January 16, 2026 06:45 p.m. IST

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