Overview
- Polling for 29 municipal corporations, including Mumbai, is scheduled on January 15 from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm, with counting on January 16.
- Mumbai’s BMC race spans 227 wards with about 1,700 candidates and roughly 10.34 million eligible voters.
- The State Election Commission has declared January 15 a public holiday in areas under the 29 corporations to support turnout.
- Mumbai Police plan to deploy over 3,000 officers and more than 25,000 personnel, with SRPF, QRT and BDDS units positioned at sensitive sites.
- Navi Mumbai officials enforced a campaign silence from 5:30 pm on January 13 and reported full readiness, including 1,148 polling stations, 6,890 staff and EVM checks.