By Shivani P Menon
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) elections were held on 15th January 2026, and the results will be declared today. NMC manages the city’s urban planning and infrastructure.
Across the city, there are 38 wards, and 2,447,494 voters will elect the members.
The top candidates for NMC include the Mahayuti alliance, comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena.
Nagpur is the homeground for some of the most influential BJP leaders like Nitin Gadkari, Chandrashekhar Bawankule and also the current Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis.
Leaders like Gadkari and Fadnavis have actively campaigned for the BJP, and the party has carried forward the campaigns by constructing roads, flyovers, logistics and urban infrastructure.
Congress is attempting its Nagpur revival by focusing the campaigns on providing better amenities for households, which include 300000 litres of free drinking water and better construction of schools. They are bringing back old leaders like Ravindra Paigwar to contest in the city.
Total of 151 seats, BJP contested for 143 seats, allied with Shinde Shiv Sena (8 seats), facing Maha Vikas Aghadi, where Congress took 129 seats, NCP (Sharad Pawar) 12, and Shiv Sena (UBT) 10.
In the last election of NMC in 2017, the BJP emerged as the winning party, bagging 108 seats out of 151, while the Indian National Congress got 28 seats, followed by the Bahujan Samaj Party securing 10 seats, with Shiv Sena having 8 seats, the Independent with 1 seat, and the Nationalist Congress Party with 1 seat.