Not just lotus, bow and arrow, hand, watch, elephant and railway engine but several other symbols can be seen on Electronic Voting Machine. Six out of seven recognized national parties and both state parties have fielded their candidates in the election, but there are also several other unrecognised parties who are contesting with various symbols.

There are a total of 334 candidates who are contesting upcoming assembly elections in 36 seats of Mumbai. There are alliances of BJP- Shiv Sena and Congress- Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) so the numbers of official candidates from these four main parties are limited to 72.