The BMC Election 2026 results were announced on Friday as the counting of votes for elections to Mumbai and 28 other municipal corporations across Maharashtra was held on January 16
The BJP-led alliance is set to win around 125 of the 227 seats in the BMC, India’s richest civic body. Pic/Sameer Abedi
The BJP created political history on Friday by emerging as the single largest party in the BMC Election 2026, ending nearly three decades of dominance by the undivided Shiv Sena.
The BJP-led alliance is set to win around 125 of the 227 seats in the BMC, India’s richest civic body.
The Mumbai civic body has an estimated budget of Rs 74,427 crore for 2025–26.
The BMC Election 2026 results were announced on Friday as the counting of votes for elections to Mumbai and 28 other municipal corporations across Maharashtra was held on January 16, a day after polling on Thursday recorded a turnout of 54.77 per cent.
With a strong performance by Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena faction, the BJP is now well placed to control the cash-rich Mumbai civic body.
Uddhav-Raj Thackeray reunion flops
The high-profile BMC contest saw Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray reunite after nearly two decades in an attempt to regain political ground in Mumbai. However, early results indicated that their strategy failed to halt the BJP’s surge.
For years, the BMC was seen as an unassailable stronghold of the Thackeray-led Shiv Sena.
The latest outcome marks a major shift in Mumbai’s political landscape.
BJP also dominates Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad
Meanwhile, in Pune and the neighbouring Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal corporation, the BJP is heading towards a landslide victory, leaving the alliance of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and NCP (SP) far behind, reported the PTI.
The results are being seen as a setback for the Pawar-led factions, which had joined hands locally to counter the BJP.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has emerged as the central figure behind the BJP’s success. Under his leadership, the party has surpassed its previous best performance of 82 seats in the 2017 BMC elections.
The success of the BJP’s “Mission Mumbai” has firmly established the party as the dominant political force in India’s financial capital.
Mixed results across other cities
In Nagpur, the home turf of Chief Minister Fadnavis and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, trends suggest a near repeat of the 2017 results. The BJP is on course to surpass its earlier tally of 108 seats in the 151-member civic body, while the Congress has struggled to make gains despite an aggressive campaign.
In contrast, the Congress scored a major victory in the Latur Municipal Corporation, securing a clear majority with over 40 seats in the 70-member body, pushing the BJP into second place.
Elections to 29 municipal corporations were held on 15 January after a gap of several years, as the terms of most civic bodies had ended between 2020 and 2023. Nine of these corporations fall within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India’s most urbanised belt.
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