BJP–Shiv Sena Mahayuti registers sweeping victory in Thane civic elections 2026

The Mahayuti which includes BJP and Shiv Sena on Friday emerged as the dominant force in the 131member Thane Municipal Corporation TMC securing an overwhelming 103 seats in the home turf of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath ShindeAccording to official data the Shiv Sena won 75 seats while the BJP secured 28 giving the ruling alliance a commanding majority in the civic body The Nationalist Congress Party NCP led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and contesting the polls separately despite being a Mahayuti ally won nine seatsAmong the opposition parties the NCP Sharad Pawar faction managed to win 12 seats while the Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray faction was reduced to just one seat The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena MNS and the Congress failed to open their accounts drawing a blank in the electionThe rout proved particularly damaging for the Congress and the MNS with senior local leaders from both parties suffering defeats Congressrsquo Thane unit chief Vikrant Chavan lost his seat as did MNS city unit president Ravindra More The outcome came despite a joint rally held in Thane by MNS chief Raj Thackeray and Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray during the campaign At the rally Raj Thackeray had alleged that rival parties were offering ldquocrores of rupeesrdquo to candidates to withdraw from the contestMeanwhile the Asaduddin Owaisiled AIMIM improved its tally winning five of the 15 seats it contested The party had two corporators in the TMC in the previous electionsOther parties including the Aam Aadmi Party AAP and the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi VBA also failed to register any victories in the results declared so far Out of 174 independent candidates who entered the fray only one managed to win a seatWith this emphatic performance the Mahayuti has further consolidated its hold over Thane reaffirming its political dominance in one of Maharashtrarsquos key urban centresSaffron surge in civic polls as BJP clinches 1425 seats across 29 municipal corporationsMeanwhile the BJP has swept the 2026 civic polls winning 1425 of 2869 seats across 29 municipal corporations and wresting control of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC from Uddhav Thackeray ending his familys threedecadeold dominance in the cashrich civic bodyThe BJP won 89 and ally Shiv Sena bagged 29 seats in the 227member BMC 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 seatThe saffron party stunned the Pawars in the Pune polls clinching 119 seats with Ajit Pawarled NCP coming in distant second with 27 and its ally NCP SP getting three seats while the Congress managed 15 seatsIn the 151member Nagpur civic body the BJP held sway getting 102 while the Congress bagged a mere 34Nashik saw the BJP bagging 72 seats Shiv Sena 26 Shiv Sena UBT 15 Congress 3 and NCP 4The BJPs victory streak continued in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar where it won 57 seats followed by Shiv Sena with 13 Congress with one while other parties registered with the SEC especially the AIMIM bagged 33 seatsAccording to the final tally the BJP won 1425 out of a total 2869 seats Shiv Sena 399 Congress 324 NCP 167 Shiv Sena UBT 155 NCP SP 36 MNS 13 BSP 6 parties registered with the SEC 129 unrecognised parties 196 and 19 independents