PTI
Mumbai
All exit polls predicted a clear sweep for the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls, which took place on Thursday, and a defeat for the Shiv Sena (UBT)-Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.
According to My Axis India exit polls, the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance is poised to win 131-151 seats and garner 42% of vote share in the country’s commercial capital. The Shiv Sena (UBT)-MNS-NCP (SP) alliance of Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray is expected to win 58-68 seats and get a vote share of 32%.
The Congress-Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi and Rashtriya Samaj Paksha alliance is expected to win 12-16 seats with a vote percentage of 13%. Others, which comprise independents and small players like NCP, AIMIM, and the left parties, are likely to win 6-12 seats, it said. There are 227 wards in Mumbai.
The Saam TV exit polls have predicted that the BJP is likely to win 84 seats, while its alliance partner Shiv Sena could bag 35 seats in Mumbai. Shiv Sena (UBT) and the MNS will get 65 and 10 seats, respectively. NCP (SP), which is part of the Sena (UBT)-MNS alliance, is likely to get two seats.
In Pune, the BJP will be largest party and is expected to win 70 seats, while the NCP could get 55. The NCP (SP), which had tied up with the Ajit Pawar-led NCP, is poised to win 10 seats. The Shiv Sena, which contested the polls independently, could win 12 seats, according to the Saam TV exit polls. The Shiv Sena (UBT) and the MNS, which contested polls independently, are expected to win five and two seats, respectively, in the state’s second largest city, while the Congress could see victory in eight wards. In neighbouring Thane, where the Shiv Sena and BJP contested together, the former is expected to bag 72 seats and its alliance partner 26.
The Sena (UBT) and MNS are likely to bag three and two seats respectively, the Saam TV exit polls said.
