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BMC Finalizes 10,300 Polling Stations, Mandates Staff Training With Legal Penalties

Citywide sessions start December 29 under SEC orders, with the nomination window closing December 30.

Thane, India - December -27, 2025: Municipal corporation elections in Maharashtra will be held on 15th January. In preparation for this, election staff have begun intensive preparations. Election officials are busy with their duties and are seen receiving instructions regarding upcoming tasks. At Ghanecker Hall in Thane, demonstrations and training sessions were conducted for election staff on how to handle Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). ,in Thane ,in Mumbai, India, on, Saturday, December -27, 2025. ( Praful Gangurde / HT Photo)
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Overview

  • Mumbai will operate 10,300 polling stations for the January 15 civic polls, up 189 from the 2024 Assembly elections, with about 700 booths inside residential complexes.
  • Mandatory training for presiding, assistant presiding and polling officers runs in two phases from December 29–January 3 and January 5–9, and absentees have been warned of criminal or disciplinary action.
  • A master training programme for senior officers concluded in Byculla and those officers will lead the upcoming sessions for the wider poll staff.
  • The final voter list counts roughly 1.034 crore electors across 227 wards after a door-to-door verification confirmed about 1.68 lakh genuine duplicate entries from 11.01 lakh suspected cases.
  • Returning Officers have distributed 10,343 nomination forms but received only 44 filings as of December 27, and similar mandatory training directives with penalty warnings are in force in Thane and Panvel.