Despite winning 118 seats in the civic body, the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance is likely to head only eight of Mumbai’s 18 ward committees; ward committees, which function as ward-level equivalents of the standing committee, enable closer engagement with local communities

Shiv Sena (UBT) heavyweight Yashodhar Phanse defeats BJP rival Yogiraj Dabhadkar in a tight multi-cornered fight; the contest was particularly significant as Dabhadkar had defeated Phanse in the 2017 civic elections