Unlike the last election, Mumbai city will get an additional ward in the upcoming BMC polls, while four or five more wards would be added in the western suburbs and three or four in the eastern suburbs, said civic officials. The corporation has prepared a restructuring plan of electoral wards with the inclusion of the nine new ones. It has restructured the electoral (corporators’) wards internally, without disturbing the administrative wards.

The state government had decided to add nine more corporators' wards to the existing 227 on November 10. However, the BMC has not been informed officially, as the governor is yet to sign the ordinance for the additions. “But we are ready with the restructuring plan, and when we get the order from the state, we will be able to submit the new plan,” said Additional Municipal Commissioner Suresh Kakani.