Overview
- Voting for Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will be held in a single phase on January 15 from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm, with counting on January 16 and a public holiday notified for the poll day.
- Officials reported full readiness: 227 wards, about 1,700 candidates, over 1.03 crore eligible voters, 10,231 polling stations, 64,375 polling staff, 4,500 volunteers, more than 22,000 police personnel, and thousands of EVM units in place.
- Turnout drives under the SVEEP programme include street plays and an AHAR tie-up offering dining discounts to voters who show inked fingers after casting ballots.
- Disciplinary action is being initiated against 4,521 staff who missed election duties, while 11,627 personnel on duty cast postal ballots at 23 centres over January 10–11.
- In separate directions, the Supreme Court set a non-extendable June 30, 2026 deadline to complete Bengaluru civic elections—ordering ward reservations by February 20 and the final voters’ list by March 16—and granted Maharashtra two additional weeks beyond January 31 to conclude local-body poll processes.