Maharashtra civic polls LIVE: Spotlight on Mumbai as 29 civic bodies go to polls today

BMC employees carry the elections materials for towards the polling both in Dadar on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini

All eyes are on the Mumbai municipal corporation, the country’s richest civic body, where cousins Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray have reunited after two decades. 

In all other cities except Mumbai, voters will cast multiple votes for the first time to choose multiple corporators for each ward, under the panel system. In Mumbai, however, voters will have to cast a single vote due to the traditional one-ward-one-corporator model.

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More than 3.48 crore voters will cast their ballots on Thursday (January 15, 2026) in elections to 29 municipal corporations, including Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), in Maharashtra, choosing 2,869 corporators from among 15,908 candidates, following an intense, high-pitched campaign by all six major political parties in the State.

Of the 3.48 crore voters, 1.81 crore are men, 1.66 crore are women, and 4,596 are other voters. Of the 39,092 polling stations, 3,196 have been declared sensitive. Voting will be conducted on electronic voting machines. Of the 43,958 control units and 87,916 ballot units, 11,349 control units and 22,698 ballot units have been deployed for Mumbai.