Maharashtra BMC Election Result 2026 Live: The fate of 15,908 candidates for 2,869 seats will be decided today. A total of 3.48 crore voters had voted in the Maharashtra Municipal Corporation elections. BJP and Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) are together in most of the corporations under the Mahayuti, but are in separate electoral fields in Pune. At the same time, Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena (UBT) and Raj Thackeray's MNS have joined hands on the issue of Marathi Manus.
Digital Desk, New Delhi. Counting of votes is going on today i.e. on 16 January 2025 in 29 municipal corporations of Maharashtra (Maharashtra BMC Election Result 2026 Live). In this, the eyes of the entire country are on Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Elections have been held for the first time since 2017.
According to the State Election Commission, counting of votes for 2,869 seats in a total of 893 wards will begin at 10 am. The most discussed are big cities like Mumbai (BMC), Pune, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Pimpri-Chinchwad.
BJP and Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) are together in most of the corporations under the Mahayuti, but are in separate electoral fields in Pune. At the same time, Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena (UBT) and Raj Thackeray's MNS have joined hands on the issue of Marathi Manus. The two Thackeray cousins have come together after nearly two decades. Today's result will also give an idea of the future political partnership between the two brothers.
Both the factions of NCP are fighting unitedly in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. Ajit Pawar and Sharad Pawar have made an agreement to avoid division of votes. In Pune, Shiv Sena (Shinde) contested the elections alone after a seat-sharing formula could not be worked out with the BJP.
Decision of the corporations of which cities today?
Counting of votes on 2,869 seats in total 893 wards of Maharashtra will begin at 10 am today. The most important among these is BMC of Mumbai. Whereas Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Navi Mumbai, Vasai-Virar, Pune, Ulhasnagar, Thane, Chandrapur, Parbhani, Mira-Bhayandar, Nanded-Waghla, Kalyan-Dombivli, Kolhapur, Nagpur, Solapur, Amravati, Akola, Nashik, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Panvel, Bhiwandi-Nizampur, Latur, Malegaon, Results will also be declared today in Sangli-Miraj-Kupwad, Jalgaon, Ahilyanagar, Dhule, Jalna and Ichalkaranji.