Mumbai- Sate Election Commission announced the dates of much awaited BMC and Zilla Parishad elections. On 21st February 2017, elections will take place for 10 Municipal corporations and on 23rd February 2017, counting will be done. Along with this, voting for 25 Zilla parishad will take place in two parts. The first phase of elections will take place on 16th January 2017 while the second phase will take place on 21st February 2017. Results of Zilla Parishad elections will be announced on 23rd February. This announcement was done by SEC commissioner J S Saharia in a press conference.
Municipal Elections
Date of nominations - 3rd February
Withdrawal of nominations- 7th February
Voting- 21st February
Counting- 23rd February
Zilla parishad elections – First phase
Date of nominations – 27th January to 1st February
Voting- 6th February
Zilla parishad elections – Second phase
Date of nominations – 1st February to 6th February
Voting- 21st February
Counting – 23rd February
BMC report card
Total corporators- 227
Leading party- Shiv Sena- BJP
SS- 75
BJP- 31
Congress- 52
NCP- 13
MNS – 28
SP- 9
Akhil Bhartiya Sena - 2
Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh- 1
RPI -1
Independent – 15
Zilla Parishad elections – First Phase – 16th Feb elections
Aurangabad
Jalna
Parbhani
Hingoli
Beed
Nanded
Usmanabad
Latur
Jalgaon
Ahmednagar
Buldhana
Yavatmal
Wardha
Chandrapur
Gadchiroli
Zilla Parishad elections –Second Phase – 21st Feb elections
Raigad
Ratnagiri
Sindhudurga
Pune
Sangli
Satara
Solapur
Kolhapur
Nashik
Amrawati
Gadchiroli