Maharashtra Gears Up for Crucial Local Body Elections on December 2, 2025: Key Details Inside
Maharashtra to hold local body elections on December 2, 2025, covering 246 municipal councils and 42 nagar panchayats.
Maharashtra is set to hold local body elections for 246 municipal councils and 42 nagar panchayats on December 2, 2025, with results to be announced the following day. The Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) announced the schedule earlier this month, starting with nomination submissions which closed on November 17, followed by scrutiny and withdrawal deadlines. Voting will be conducted using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) across 13,355 polling stations serving 1.7 crore eligible voters.
The elections will select 6,859 members and 288 presidents across these urban local bodies, with significant reservations: 3,492 seats for women, and hundreds more reserved for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes. These polls are part of a larger electoral exercise that also includes upcoming elections for 29 municipal corporations, 32 zilla parishads, and 336 panchayat samitis, though these schedules are yet to be announced.
Key political players include the Shiv Sena, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Shiv Sena (UBT), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SP), Indian National Congress (INC), Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), and Rashtriya Samaj Party (RSP). The elections are crucial for political realignment at the grassroots level in Maharashtra after a gap of several years since the last local elections held in 2022.
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With the milestone Supreme Court directive mandating local body elections before January 31, 2026, Maharashtra’s urban governance faces a fresh democratic reaffirmation through these polls. The extensive electoral machinery includes 288 returning officers and nearly 67,000 officials dedicated to ensuring free and fair elections.
Citizens across Maharashtra will cast their votes across 3,820 wards in this expanse of municipalities, influencing the future administrative and developmental agenda of the state. The prompt declaration of results on December 3 will set the tone for governance at the local level in Maharashtra for the coming years.
