MUMBAI ... In the 2026 BMC elections, over one lakh voters opted for NOTA out of 54.64 lakh votes polled, accounting for nearly 1.8% of the turnout ... In Ward 191, ShivSena (UBT)'s Vishakha Raut won by 197 votes, even as 772 voters chose NOTA.
So the Sena must get the standing committee chairmanship for 2 years and chairpersons' posts in other committees too.'The mayor's term is for 2.5 years, so in the five-year term of the BMCHouse, the mayor is elected twice.
Of the total 227 seats in BMC, the Shinde Sena contested 90 in all.In central Mumbai’s Marathi heartland and in parts of the eastern suburbs, the UBT-MNS camp celebrated, but without the swagger of earlier years.