Overview
- Polling runs from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm across 29 municipal corporations for 2,801 seats after 68 candidates were elected unopposed, with counting on January 16.
- In Mumbai, about 1.03 crore voters are choosing corporators in 227 single-member wards as the BJP-led Mahayuti faces a reunited Uddhav–Raj Thackeray front and other formations.
- Security is heavy across the state, with more than 25,000 police personnel in Mumbai and tens of thousands of booths and EVM/VVPAT units deployed statewide.
- Election-day glitches include the State Election Commission website showing errors and names missing on rolls, with Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi directed to an alternate booth.
- The state declared a public holiday in poll areas and closed the BSE and NSE for the day to encourage turnout.