BJP-led Mahayuti sweeps Zila Parishad, Panchayat Samiti polls

The BJP-led Mahayuti swept the Zila Parishad (ZP) and panchayat samiti polls in Maharashtra, results of which were declared on Monday, continuing the winning streak that started with the stellar performance in the 2024 Assembly polls.

The Mahayuti won 552 of 731 ZP seats and more than 1000 of the 1462 panchayat samiti seats, the State Election Commission said.

In the ruling Mahayuti, the BJP led with 225 ZP seats, followed by 165 for the Nationalist Congress Party and 162 for the Shiv Sena.

In the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, the Congress emerged on top with 55 ZP seats, followed by 43 for the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and 26 for Sharad Pawar’s NCP (SP). The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena won a seat each in Latur and Ratnagiri.

Independents won 20 seats, unrecognised parties registered with the SEC got 14 and parties registered with the SEC won seven.

NCP won the Pune ZP, getting 51 of 73 seats. The NCP and NCP (SP) had contested on the ‘clock’ symbol, the elections taking place just days after the death of Ajit Pawar on January 28 in a plane crash.

Shiv Sena won Raigad ZP, getting 23 of 59 seats. The Eknath Shinde-led party also won 41 of 56 seats in Ratnagiri ZP.

BJP scored in Sindhudurg, emerging victorious on 27 of 50 seats. The BJP also emerged as the single largest party in Satara, Solapur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Parbhani, Dharashiv, Satara and Latur.

Congress was the single largest party in Kolhapur.