Jalna Municipal Corporation Results Highlights: BJP bats opposition out in civic body polls

Jalna:

The Bharatiya Janata Party registered a big win in the Jalna Municipal Corporation Elections. The BJP batted the opposition out in the Jalna civic body polls as the party registered wins in 43 seats. The Shiv Sena (Shinde) won 12 seats, while Congress secured victories in nine seats. This was the first time that elections were held in the city for the civic polls. Jalna and Ichalkaranji were the two newly-added corporations in the Maharashtra civic body polls.

Meanwhile, the murder accused of the murder of the journalist Gauri Lankesh, Shrikant Pangarkar, has won in his seat.

The counting of votes for the Jalna Municipal Corporation started at 10 AM on Friday, January 16, as parties battled it out for power in the city civic polls. Before 2026, the last time elections took place in the city, Shiv Sena emerged as the largest party, having won 24 of the 68 seats in 2017. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) secured 18 seats, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 14 seats. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) secured four seats, while Independents and others won four.

Meanwhile, results for the Jalna Municipal Corporation, alongside 28 other civic bodies in the state, were announced on January 16. The 29 municipal corporations include Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Thane, Ulhasnagar, Kalyan-Dombivli, Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), Pune, Nashik, Nagpur, Jalgaon, Ahmednagar (Ahilyanagar), Kolhapur, Bhiwandi-Nizampur, Nanded-Waghala, Malegaon, Latur, Parbhani, Navi Mumbai, Vasai-Virar City, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Solapur, Amravati, Akola, Mira Bhayandar, Panvel, Chandrapur, Sangli-Mirajpur-Kupwad, Dhule, Ichalkaranji, and Jalna. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), India's richest civic body, will see 1,729 candidates contesting for 227 seats.