Overview
- The lottery allocated 61 wards for OBC, 15 for SC and 2 for ST, with a total of 114 seats reserved for women across categories.
- Of the 227 seats, 149 fall in the general category, including 74 reserved for women, leaving 75 open seats without any reservation.
- The draw was held at Balgandharva Rangmandir in Bandra West, conducted by BMC-run school students and live-streamed, with Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani and senior officials present.
- The process follows the State Urban Development Department’s 2025 allotment-and-rotation rules and uses 2011 Census-based ward boundaries after the High Court kept Mumbai at 227 wards.
- Political fallout was immediate, with several veterans losing home wards to new quotas, and reporting indicated the outcome was relatively favorable to Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena compared with Sena (UBT) and the BJP.