2024 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election

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2024 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election
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  2017 March 2024 (Tentative)

All 227 seats in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
114 seats needed for a majority
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Leader Uddhav Thackeray Devendra Fadnavis Nana Patole
Party SS(UBT) BJP INC
Alliance MVA NDA MVA
Last election84 (Shiv Sena)8231

Incumbent BMC majority

Shiv Sena



The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election, 2024 is an election of members to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation which governs Greater Mumbai, the largest city in India. The election dates are yet to be announced by the state election commission and could be held in 2024.

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Background

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) after the civic elections 2017 will now be with Nine new wards, three are in urban areas, three in western suburbs and three in eastern suburbs. The three wards in the city are Worli, Parel and Byculla, Bandra, Andheri, Dahisar in the western suburbs, Kurla, Chembur and Govandi in the eastern suburbs. overall will now be with 236 corporators. 127 seats is the reserved for women, out of which belonging to Scheduled Castes 8 seats reserved for women and 1 for woman belonging to Scheduled Tribes. There will be 118 seats for open Castes women total 219 seats will be for open group. 15 seats Scheduled Castes and 2 seats Scheduled Tribes will be reserved. [1]

Schedule

Ward Structure Event

Structure EventScheduleDayReferences
Draft Ward Structure1 February [2]
Objections and Suggestion14 February 2023
Final draft will be Submitted2 March 2023

Poll Event

Poll EventScheduleDay
Issue of notification of electionTBDTBD
Last Date for filing nominationTBDTBD
Scrutiny of NominationsTBDTBD
Withdrawal of CandidatureTBDTBD
Date of PollTBDTBD
Date of CountingTBDTBD
Date of CompletionTBDTBD

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References

  1. "BMC : मुंबईचे महापालिकेचे वॉर्ड आता 'असे' असतील; नवीन वॉर्ड पुनर्रचना प्रारूप अधिसूचना जाहीर". ABP Majha . 1 February 2022. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  2. "BMC Redraws Electoral Map to Add 9 New Seats Ahead of Polls; Impacts 70% of Wards, Says Official". News18 . 2 February 2022. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2022.