Overview
- Balloting was held on January 15 across 29 municipal corporations, with vote counting scheduled for January 16.
- In Mumbai’s BMC race, 1.03 crore eligible voters chose from about 1,700 candidates across 227 single-member wards, with 114 seats needed for a majority.
- Security was tightened statewide, including over 25,000 police personnel in Mumbai and State Reserve Police Force companies across key centres.
- Polling day brought complaints about missing names and State Election Commission website outages, with isolated cases of voters being directed to alternate booths and the SEC rejecting claims about erasable ink.
- Exit polls by Axis My India and Janmat/JVC projected a clear lead for the BJP–Eknath Shinde Shiv Sena alliance in the BMC, with the Uddhav–Raj Thackeray front placed second and official results pending.