Overview
- The BJP emerged as the single largest party across the 29 corporations, winning or leading in roughly 1,293 seats in consolidated counts.
- In Mumbai, the BJP–Eknath Shinde Shiv Sena alliance crossed the 114-seat threshold in the 227-member BMC, ending the Thackeray family’s decades-long hold.
- Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad showed commanding BJP leads, with PCMC trends placing the party ahead in 82 of 128 seats and producing several high-profile incumbent defeats.
- Eknath Shinde’s Sena retained relative strength in Thane, though his faction lost a closely watched contest in his home ward to a Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate.
- The election commission reported 54.77% turnout and largely refuted ink and EVM complaints, as CM Devendra Fadnavis credited the verdict to voters choosing 'honesty and development.'