The Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies on Friday won most of the 29 municipal corporation elections in Maharashtra.
The polling took place on Thursday. In some cities, the civic body elections took place after a four-year delay.
The six major political parties in the state – the BJP, the Congress, and the two factions each of the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party – had entered into several combinations of tie-ups in the 29 cities.
Mumbai
As of 7.30 am on Saturday, the BJP and its ally, the Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led faction of the Shiv Sena, won 118 seats in Mumbai. Of these, the BJP won 89 seats.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the country’s richest civic body, has 227 seats, with 114 needed to win the election.
The Opposition alliance comprising the Uddhav Thackeray-led group of the Shiv Sena, Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and the Sharad Pawar-led NCP faction won 72 seats. Of these, the Uddhav Sena won 65 seats.
The Congress, contesting separately, won 24 seats.
The city had a mayor from the undivided Shiv Sena between 1996 and 2022, when the previous tenure of the civic body ended.
Several exit polls had predicted a wider victory margin for the BJP-Shinde Sena alliance in Mumbai.
Pollster Axis My India on Thursday predicted that the BJP-Shinde Sena...
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