Maharashtra Election Results Live Updates: ISLAM party storms Malegaon with 35 seats; AIMIM surges to 21, Congress crumbles to 3

BJP won 65 seats in the 111-member Navi Mumbai civic body in 2026, improving its tally from six corporators in 2015, and securing power in the city for the first time. Observers attributed the BJP’s performance to forest minister Ganesh Naik, who led his team to a clean sweep in the civic polls in Navi Mumbai after years of political struggle.In 2015, Naik dominated civic polls as a leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which won 52 seats, and with the support of 10 Congress corporators and five independents, he ruled the city. The undivided Shiv Sena won 38 seats then. Experts said Naik continued to be a major force irrespective of his political affiliations for three decades.

The Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation election has delivered a fractured verdict, paving the way for intense political negotiations in the 90-member civic body. With all major parties contesting the polls independently, the results reflect a divided mandate and a complex power equation.The Congress emerged as the single largest party, winning 30 seats. The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance collectively secured 34 seats, with the BJP winning 22 and the Shiv Sena 12. The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) won 12 seats, while the Samajwadi Party secured 6. Smaller regional outfits also made their presence felt, with the Konark Vikas Aghadi winning 4 seats, the Bhiwandi Vikas Aghadi 3, and one independent candidate also registering a victory.

An extremely interesting and closely fought contest unfolded in Ulhasnagar between the two key Mahayuti allies—the BJP and the Shiv Sena—turning the civic election into a high-stakes political battle.In the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC), the BJP emerged as the single largest party by winning 37 of the 78 seats. The Shiv Sena, which contested the elections separately in alliance with the local Team Omie Kalani (TOK), the SAI Party, the Republican Party of India (RPI), and with support from some independents, put up a tough fight and secured a total of 38 seats (36 Shiv Sena+ 2). Apart from these two major players, the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) won 2 seats, while the Congress managed to secure 1 seat. With the majority mark set at 40 seats, no party has been able to cross the halfway line, leaving the question of who will form the ruling body wide open.

The Shiv Sena, led by deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde, managed to completely rout the UBT in the undivided Sena citadel that had incidentally given the party its first power seat after its formation. While the Sena bagged 75 seats in the 131 House, including the six unopposed seats, the UBT managed to get only a green horn Shahji Khuspe elected to the House, where he defeated Sena strongman Ashok Vaity from the Kajuwadi ward 13, which is incidentally home to deputy CM’s residence. This is the second time after 2017 that the Sena has got a asingle-handed majority.

Many of those who switched sides ahead of the civic polls managed to taste success, but several faced defeat, with the trend cutting across party lines.In Pimpri Chinchwad, 30 former corporators and candidates who finished second in the previous corporation poll shifted loyalties after they were denied tickets by their respective parties. The results, however, were mixed — only 16 of them won. Most contested the election on their own, while a few fielded family members from seats reserved for women.

In its maiden contest for Malegaon MC, Indian Secular Largest Assembly of Maharashtra (ISLAM) party, floated by former NCP MLA Asif Shaikh, ended Congress domination by winning 35 seats. However, it fell short of a clear majority of 43 in the 84-seat corporation. ISLAM had tied up with SP, which bagged five seats.

Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar used his political acumen to challenge the BJP on his home turf in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad but the civic election results on Friday showed that he failed to make a dent.Though the verdict is not impressive for Ajit Pawar, political observers said it has opened new pathways for him to lead a united NCP, as merger possibilities look stronger now with the weakening of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP group at the grassroots.

Though they lost control of Mumbai, Thackeray cousins Uddhav and Raj managed to retain their base in the Marathi heartland of South and Central Mumbai. They could, however, have limited impact outside the Marathi-dominated areas.The Mahayuti managed to win only a handful of seats in areas like Dadar-Mahim, Worli, Sewri, Lalbaug-Parel and parts of Wadala, with the Sena (UBT)-MNS combine keeping most. Many of these seats saw fierce and prestige battles. Out of around 20 seats in these areas, the Mahayuti could win only 2-3 while the Thackerays won the rest.

Maharashtra's "double engine" Centre-state leadership seems to have laid the track for the BJP-led Mahayuti's urban sweep in civic body polls, consolidating the bloc's post-assembly election momentum.In north Maharashtra, BJP emerged as the single largest party by winning 195 out of the total of 423 seats across Nashik, Malegaon, Dhule, Jalgaon and Ahilyanagar districts. Shiv Sena, one of its allies in the Mahayuti dispensation governing the state, won 81 seats. BJP led the chart in Nashik with 72 seats, Dhule (50) and Jalgaon (46), but trailed in Ahilyanagar with 25 seats behind NCP's 27. In Malegaon, it won only two seats.