Overview
- The BJP won about 89 seats and Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena took roughly 29, crossing the 114-seat majority mark in the 227-member corporation.
- Uddhav Thackeray’s Sena (UBT) finished near 65 seats, with Congress at 24, AIMIM at 8, MNS at 6, NCP (Sharad Pawar) at 1, NCP (Ajit Pawar) at 3, the Samajwadi Party at 2 and independents at 2.
- UBT leader Sanjay Raut blamed Shinde for the loss, saying that without his defection Mumbai would not have a BJP mayor.
- Ward-level results featured both razor-thin and decisive margins, including Congress’s Tulip Brian Miranda edging the BJP by seven votes in Ward 90, and News18 reporting winners such as BJP’s Shilpa Dattaram Keluskar (Ward 173) and SSUBT’s Harshala Ashish More (Ward 189) and Padmaja Ashish Chemburkar (Ward 196).
- Voting took place on January 15 with counting on January 16, as News18’s ward-by-ward pages tracked outcomes across the city.