Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) Election Results 2026 Date and Time: All eyes are on Pune as elections are underway for the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and PCMC elections. Elections are also being held in 27 other civic bodies in Maharashtra. These are the first civic elections in Maharashtra since 2017.
Voting for the PMC and PCMC elections began amid tight security at 7.30 am and will conclude at 5.30 pm. Voters were seen standing in long queues to cast their votes.
At 11:30 am, the voter turnout in the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) elections was 16.3 per cent, while it was 12.5 per cent in the elections. Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) Surveys.
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When will the result be announced?
According to the State Election Commission, the election results of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and PCMC, along with 27 other civic bodies, will be announced on January 16. Vote counting will begin at 10 a.m. Friday.
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PMC elections at a glance
1,165 candidates participated in the PMC elections in 41 districts. There were 165 seats up for grabs. Nearly 35.51 voters decided the fate of these candidates on Thursday.
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In PCMC, 128 seats are up for grabs in 32 wards. A total of 17,13,891 voters will decide their fate.
What happened in the 2017 PMC elections?
The previous Pune Municipal Corporation election was held on February 21, 2017 and recorded a voter turnout of 55.45 per cent. In total 1,090 candidates were in the running.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a clear majority, winning 97 seats. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) won 39 seats, followed by the Shiv Sena with 10 and the Congress with nine. The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) won two seats, AIMIM one, while independents and others won four seats.
BJP’s Mukta Tilak was elected mayor, while Navanth Kamble was elected deputy mayor. In terms of vote percentage, the BJP got 36.67 per cent, the NCP 21.94 per cent and the Congress 8.63 per cent.
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Other municipal corporations in Maharashtra where elections are being held today include Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Thane, Ulhasnagar, Kalyan-Dombivli, Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), Pune, Nashik, Nagpur, Jalgaon, Ahmednagar (Ahilyanagar), Kolhapur, Bhiwandi-Nizampur, Nanded-Waghala, Malegaon, Latur, Parbhani, Navi. BombayVasai-Virar City, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Solapur, Amravati, Akola, Mira Bhayandar, Panvel, Chandrapur, Sangli-Mirajpur-Kupwad, Dhule, Ichalkaranji and Jalna.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is the richest civic body in India. Up to 1,729 candidates are competing for its 227 seats.