BJP-Shiv Sena’s Mahayuti alliance storms Maharashtra civic polls, leading in 24 of 29 municipal bodies, including Mumbai and Pune, while opposition struggles to keep pace- will urban strongholds remain in BJP’s grip or surprise turnarounds await?
Mahayuti leads in 24 of 29 civic bodies
Maharashtra: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its Mahayuti alliance with Shiv Sena are showing a commanding lead in Maharashtra’s municipal corporation elections, trends indicate. Counting of votes on Friday morning revealed the alliance ahead in 24 of the 29 civic bodies, including major cities like Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Navi Mumbai, and Nagpur.
In the high-stakes Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance is leading in 210 of the 227 wards, comfortably surpassing the majority mark of 114 seats required to form the civic body.
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In Pune, the BJP is ahead in roughly 90 of 165 wards, while the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance leads in around 20 seats, and Congress in 8. Similarly, in Pimpri-Chinchwad, the BJP leads in 75 wards, with NCP ahead in 40 and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena in 10.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, contesting together, are trailing in most districts. Congress, along with its ally Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi, managed a win in Latur, while NCP leads in Ahilyanagar. Elsewhere, BJP shows strength in western Maharashtra municipal corporations such as Kolhapur, Satara, Solapur, Sangli, and Ichalkaranji.
Several prominent political families faced defeats. Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Waikar’s daughter lost to Shiv Sena-UBT candidate Lona Rawat, while Shrikant Sarvankar’s son Samadhan lost to Sena-UBT’s Nishikant Shinde. Gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli’s daughter Yogita Gawli lost in central Mumbai, and former state minister Nawab Malik’s brother Kaptan Malik was defeated in Kurla.
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The BJP and its allies are also leading in eight of nine municipal corporations in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), which accounts for over 20% of Maharashtra’s population. Vasai-Virar is an exception, where Bahujan Vikas Aghadi, led by former MLA Hitendra Thakur, is ahead. The strong showing underscores the alliance’s continuing dominance in urban Maharashtra, maintaining control of major civic bodies and challenging opposition footholds.
The results indicate a decisive victory for the BJP–Shiv Sena Mahayuti alliance, consolidating their influence across the state’s largest cities and strategically important municipal corporations.
