Overview
- Voting will run from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm on January 15 across 29 municipal corporations, with counting scheduled for January 16.
- Mumbai’s BMC election covers 227 wards with about 10.34 million registered voters and roughly 1,700 candidates in the fray.
- EVMs have been checked and moved to polling centres, mock polls are slated for early Thursday, and more than 25,000 police personnel will secure Mumbai alongside CCTV and webcasting.
- Voters must show a Voter ID or one of 12 approved photo documents; voter information slips help locate booths, and a public holiday has been declared in corporation areas.
- Outside Mumbai, most corporations use three- or four-member wards requiring multiple votes per elector, and campaigning has been under the silence period since 5:30 pm on January 13.