Maharashtra election results LIVE: Exit polls predict win for BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Mumbai

A constabulary idiosyncratic checks the elector cards of the radical arsenic they get to formed their ballot for the Nagpur Municipal Corporation elections astatine a polling booth, successful Nagpur connected January 15, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI

The ballot counting for 29 municipal corporations crossed Maharashtra is scheduled to instrumentality spot connected Friday (January 16, 2026).

All exit polls predicted a wide sweep for the BJP-Shiv Sena confederation successful Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls, which took spot connected Thursday (January 15, 2026), and a decision of the Shiv Sena (UBT)-Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.

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Voting concluded connected Thursday evening with the State Election Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare estimating the overall elector turnout is successful the 46-50% range, a fig higher than the 2017 civic polls.

During the polling, a enactment erupted implicit the alleged usage of marker ink alternatively of “indelible” ink to people voters’ fingers to bespeak that they person formed their vote. Maharashtra SEC Dinesh Waghmare said viral videos showing radical removing ink from their fingers aft casting ballot are nether investigation, informing of enactment against attempts to dispersed a “false narrative”. The SEC besides clarified that it is an “offence” to region ink marks from a voter’s finger.

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