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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election, 2025 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 2025.
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]
The Maharashtra government has implemented a new four-member ward system for most municipal corporations in the state, with the exception of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). While the ruling parties say that this action will improve democracy, the opposition has expressed worries about the delay in civic elections and asked why the administration has not approached the court to speed up the election process.
| Structure Event | Schedule | Day | References |
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| Draft Ward Structure | 1 February | [8] | |
| Objections and Suggestion | 14 February 2023 | ||
| Final draft will be Submitted | 2 March 2023 |
| Poll Event | Schedule | Day |
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| Issue of notification of election | TBD | TBD |
| Last Date for filing nomination | TBD | TBD |
| Scrutiny of Nominations | TBD | TBD |
| Withdrawal of Candidature | TBD | TBD |
| Date of Poll | TBD | TBD |
| Date of Counting | TBD | TBD |
| Date of Completion | TBD | TBD |
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