BJP sweeps Maharashtra Civic polls, neck-to-neck with Shiv Sena in BMC

Maharashtra Civic Elections Results 2017: The Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena on Thursday finished neck-to-neck and were engaged in a tussle on Thursday to control India's richest and biggest civic body, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation.

Updated: February 24, 2017 5:58 PM IST

By Aadil Ikram Zaki Iqbal

Maharashtra Civic Elections Results 2017 LIVE Streaming
Maharashtra Civic Elections Results 2017 LIVE Streaming

Mumbai, Feb 23: The Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena on Thursday finished neck-to-neck and were engaged in a tussle on Thursday to control India’s richest and biggest civic body, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation. While the Shiv Sena emerged on the top with 84 seats, the BJP was a close second at 82, and claiming the support of at least four independents, announced it would stake claim to the key post of Mayor. The Congress, expecting to fare much better, came a poor third with 31 seats. Any party or combine requires 114 corporators for a simple majority in the 227-member BMC house.

Across Maharashtra, the Bharatiya Janata Party made major gains by bagging eight of the other nine municipalities. However, Thane blocked the BJP bulldozer where the Shiv Sena bagged 67 out of 131 seats, followed by NCP with 34, BJP 23 and Congress three and AIMIM two seats.

As many as 17,331 candidates were in fray for 3210 seats up for grabs in 10 municipal corporations in Maharashtra. Apart from BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the municipal corporations which went to the polls were Thane, Ulhasnagar, Nashik, Pune, Pimpri- Chinchwad, Solapur, Akola, Amravati and Nagpur. Millions of voters exercised their franchise in the Maharashtra Municipal Corporation elections 2017. The turn-out for 11 zilla parishads and 118 panchayat samiti polls was 69 per cent.

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