The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is among the 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra to which elections will be held on January 15, Wednesday. The counting of votes is scheduled for January 16, Friday, the State Election Commission (SEC) announced on Monday.
Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Nashik, Nagpur and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar are among the other prominent civic bodies going to polls. He reportedly confirmed that the election code of conduct has now come into force in all 29 local bodies. As many as 2,869 seats in these municipal corporations will be up for grabs in these local bodies, where elections are due since early 2022. Maharashtra State Election Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare said the nomination process will begin on December 23, Tuesday with candidates allowed to make their submissions for a week until December 30. Scrutiny of papers will be done on December 31, and January 2, Friday, will be the last date of withdrawal of nominations, he said.
Symbol allocation and the final list of candidates will be published on January 3. “Polling in the 29 municipal corporations spread across Maharashtra will take place on January 15 and votes will be counted the next day,” news agency PTI quoted Waghmare as saying. He said these 29 civic bodies, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), have 2,869 seats on offer and 3.48 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in these major urban centres of the state.
After long and tiring political blame games and court battles, the Supreme Court had finally given the deadline of January 31 to conduct the polls, reported Marathi media.
Full list of local bodies heading to polls:
- BMC
- Pune Municipal Corporation
- Nagpur Municipal Corporation
- Solapur Municipal Corporation
- Kolhapur Municipal Corporation
- Thane Municipal Corporation
- Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation
- Nashik Municipal Corporation
- Aurangabad Municipal Corporation
- Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation
- Amravati Municipal Corporation
- New Mumbai Municipal Corporation
- Nanded–Waghala Municipal Corporation
- Ulhas Nagar Municipal Corporation
- Sangli-Miraj-Kupwara Municipal Corporation
- Malegaon Municipal Corporation
- Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation
- Akola Municipal Corporation
- Bhayander Municipal Corporation
- Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation
- Dhule Municipal Corporation
- Jalgaon Municipal Corporation
- Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation
- Parbhani Municipal Corporation
- Chandrapur Municipal Corporation
- Latur Municipal Corporation
- Panvel Municipal Corporation
- Ichalkaranji Municipal Corporation
- Jalna Municipal Corporation
Dates to remember:
- Application submission window: December 23–30, 2025
- Application scrutiny: December 31, 2025
- Last date for withdrawal of candidature: January 2, 2026
- Election symbol allocation and release of final candidate list: January 3, 2026
- Polling date: January 15, 2026
- Counting of votes: January 16, 2026
