BMC Election Results: BJP Breaks 2017 Record With Lead In 92 Seats; Big Setback For Thackerays
In 2017, the BJP won 82 seats, and now the party is ahead in nearly 92 seats, with the alliance leading in over 118 seats.
The Bharatiya Janata Party seems to be inching closer to a landslide victory in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election. The saffron party has broken its previous record by registering a significant lead, with team Thackeray staring at a major setback.
In 2017, the BJP won 82 seats, and now the party is ahead in nearly 92 seats, with the alliance leading in over 118 seats.
Visuals of party workers celebrating BJP's victory also began surfacing as early trends indicated that the party might in fact appoint its mayor following the massive win.
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BJP leader and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday had predicted that the Mahayuti "willl break our own record". He made this claim while canvassing for Mahayuti candidates who contested in 29 municipal corporations.
"Seeing the response of people, I am now confident that we will break our own record in Nagpur, while hoisting the saffron flag in Mumbai, and other municipal corporations in the state," he had said.
The process of counting votes for elections to 29 municipal corporations across Maharashtra got underway on Friday morning, with Mumbai emerging as the key focus. The contest in the state capital has turned into a high-stakes face-off, as the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance takes on the reunited Thackeray cousins in the race to control India’s wealthiest civic body.
Polling for a total of 2,869 seats across 893 wards in these municipal corporations, including 227 wards in Mumbai, was held on Thursday. In all, 15,931 candidates contested the elections, which saw participation from 3.48 crore eligible voters across the state.
State Election Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare said voter turnout across the 29 municipal corporations stood at around 50 per cent when polling concluded. In Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections recorded a turnout of 52.94 per cent, officials said, marking a decline from the 55.53 per cent registered in the 2017 civic polls.
The BMC, which operates with an annual budget exceeding ₹74,400 crore, is holding elections after a gap of four years. A total of 1,700 candidates are in the fray for the 227 seats in the country’s richest municipal corporation.
Officials noted that while Mumbai follows a single-member ward system, the remaining municipal corporations in Maharashtra have multi-member wards.
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