In Sindhudurg, the outcome places the Bharatiya Janata Party firmly ahead, with 27 wins in the 50-seat contest. The Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde finished next with 13 seats, while the Shiv Sena (UBT) managed to secure 3. Independents and other smaller parties accounted for the remaining 7 seats. Meanwhile, the Nationalist Congress Party factions led by Ajit Pawar and Sharad Pawar, along with the Indian National Congress, did not win a single seat in the district.
Sindhudurg has 50 Zilla Parishad seats and 100 Panchayat Samiti seats spread across eight talukas: Vaibhavwadi, Kankavli, Devgad, Malwan, Kudal, Vengurla, Sawantwadi and Dodamarg. This live blog will bring minute-by-minute updates, party-wise trends, seat tallies and key developments as counting progresses across the district.
The last elections to the Sindhudurg Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samitis were held in 2017. At the time, the Zilla Parishad had 50 seats and the Panchayat Samitis together had 100 seats. Out of 5,59,982 registered voters, 3,80,225 cast their votes, recording a turnout of 67.90 percent. In the 2017 Zilla Parishad polls, Congress emerged as the largest party with 27 seats, followed by Shiv Sena with 16 seats, BJP with 6 seats and NCP with 1 seat. At the Panchayat Samiti level, Congress again led with 56 seats, while Shiv Sena won 26 seats, BJP secured 16 seats and NCP got 2 seats.
For the 2026 local body elections across Maharashtra, a total of 731 Zilla Parishad seats and 1,462 Panchayat Samiti seats are being contested, with around 2.09 crore eligible voters. Polling was held on February 7, 2026, from 7.30am to 5.30pm using Electronic Voting Machines, based on electoral rolls finalised on July 1, 2025. Vote counting was scheduled for Monday, February 9, 2026.
