The BJP has swept the 2026 civic polls, winning one thousand 425 of 2 thousand 869 seats across 29 municipal corporations across Maharashtra. According to the final tally, the Shiv Sena bagged 399 seats, Congress 324, NCP 167, Shiv Sena (UBT) 155, NCP (SP) 36, MNS 13, and BSP 6 seats.
The BJP won 89, and ally Shiv Sena bagged 29 seats in the 227-member Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, while Shiv Sena (UBT) managed 65 and MNS six seats. The Congress, which fought in alliance with Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), bagged 24 seats, AIMIM 8, NCP 3, Samajwadi Party 2, and NCP (SP) got just one seat. The Mahayuti alliance ended the three-decade-old dominance of the Thackrey family.
In Pune, the BJP shunned the Pawars, clinching 119 seats, with Ajit Pawar-led NCP coming in distant second with 27 and its ally NCP (SP) getting three seats, while the Congress managed 15 seats. In the 151-member Nagpur civic body, the BJP got 102, while the Congress bagged 34 seats. In Nashik, BJP won 72 seats, Shiv Sena 26, Shiv Sena (UBT) 15, Congress 3 and NCP 4.
The BJP’s victory streak continued in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, where it won 57 seats, followed by Shiv Sena with 13, and Congress with one. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has thanked the people of Maharashtra for blessing the NDA’s agenda of pro-people governance.