Overview
- Official results show elevated NOTA shares across key cities: Mumbai 1.83% (1,00,327 votes), Pune nearly 3% (2,21,209), Navi Mumbai about 13.2% (71,550) and Panvel 3.83% (43,217).
- In Navi Mumbai, NOTA exceeded victory margins in several seats, including Ward 3C where 445 NOTA votes dwarfed a 154-vote loss and Ward 12C where 506 NOTA votes surpassed a 126-vote margin.
- Ward hotspots in Navi Mumbai included Ghansoli’s Ward 9 with 4,724 NOTA votes and Nerul’s Ward 25 with 4,461, including 2,398 in Seat C, indicating concentrated pockets of voter discontent.
- Mumbai’s western suburbs recorded the city’s highest NOTA count and share at 47,936 votes (1.9%), while South Mumbai’s Ward 226 logged 1,404 NOTA votes, or 5.1% in that ward.
- Organised appeals, including a call by Vaastav Foundation in Mumbai, encouraged protest voting, highlighting targeted mobilization alongside broader dissatisfaction with candidate choices.