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Maharashtra Local Body Polls 2025: Voting has started in 264 Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats on Tuesday, where voting is taking place for 6,042 seats and 264 posts of Council President.
2 December, 2025
Maharashtra Local Body Polls 2025: In the first phase of local body elections in Maharashtra, voting started on Tuesday in 264 Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats, where voting is taking place for 6,042 seats and 264 posts of Council President. Polling started at 7.30 am and will end at 5.30 pm. Officials said that the counting of votes will take place on December 3. There is an electoral contest between BJP’s grand alliance and opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).
One crore voters will vote
Nearly one crore voters will cast their votes in the first round of multi-tier rural and urban local body elections. According to the instructions of the Supreme Court, these elections are to end by January 31, 2026. According to officials, 12,316 polling stations have been set up across the state, and 62,108 polling staff have been deployed. Security arrangements have been made to ensure peaceful polling. Officials said that the State Election Commission (SEC) has made arrangements for a large number of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), 17,367 control units and 34,734 ballot units.
VIDEO | Maharashtra Local Body Polls: Voting underway at Pune’s Chakan Zila Parishad School. Voters seen posing at Selfie Point installed at the polling booth.
Voting via EVMs began 7:30 am and will conclude at 5:30 pm with counting set for December 3. As many as 6,042 seats and… pic.twitter.com/WHDtrGTzGu
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) December 2, 2025
Elections for 154 seats will be held on December 20.
The SEC has postponed the voting in 24 local bodies till December 20 in view of the judicial appeals filed against the decisions of the Returning Officer after scrutiny of nomination papers. Additionally, due to the ongoing court case, elections for 76 Municipal Council and 154 Nagar Panchayat seats have been rescheduled to December 20. Local body elections are being considered a major indicator of political sentiment in Maharashtra. A year ago, the BJP-led Mahayuti had won 235 out of 288 seats in the state assembly elections.
100 BJP councilors won unopposed
These elections are already witnessing major political turmoil, with the ruling Mahayuti alliance of BJP, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party facing off against Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), Sharad Pawar’s NCP (SP) and Congress’s opposition MVA. While the opposition focused its campaign on local leadership, BJP overtook other parties by securing 100 councilor seats and three municipal president posts without any opposition.
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