Overview
- F/North’s 10-seat map now reserves eight wards for women, reshaping the field and preventing former opposition leader Ravi Raja—who moved from Congress to the BJP—from recontesting his old seat.
- In H East, where roughly 60% of the population lives in slum clusters, residents report water cuts, sewage overflows, garbage piles and traffic from overlapping works, even as the ward shows continued strength for Shiv Sena (UBT) after Varun Sardesai’s recent assembly win.
- G South (Worli–Prabhadevi–Mahalaxmi) faces a direct contest between the two Shiv Sena factions, with residents citing strained infrastructure, encroachments, pollution and a shortage of public toilets despite marquee projects nearby.
- H West’s upscale neighborhoods of Bandra, Khar and Santacruz West report daily gridlock, commercialisation of residential lanes, broken footpaths and coordination gaps, with citizen groups pressing for accountable corporators.
- Official data underscore scale: K East generates about 550 metric tonnes of garbage daily (plus roughly 90 tonnes of silt), while B Ward produces about 190 tonnes a day, highlighting the burden on basic services.