Overview
- The State Election Commission finalized candidate lists after validating 24,771 nominations and recording 8,840 withdrawals from an initial pool of roughly 33,000 filings.
- Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is the largest contest with 227 seats and 1,700 candidates on the final slate.
- Pune recorded the most withdrawals, leaving 1,166 candidates to contest 165 seats across 41 wards.
- Competition averages 5.55 candidates per seat statewide, with Mumbai and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar exceeding seven per seat while Ichalkaranji and Dhule hover near three and a half.
- Polling is scheduled for January 15 with counting on January 16, with all corporations except Mumbai using multi-member wards.