May 2017, Civic Elections
in Panvel, Bhiwandi- Nizampur and Malegaon Municipal Corporations.
Name of the Municipal Corporation
|
Bharatiya Janata Party
|
Shiv Sena
|
Bharatiya
Shetkari
Kamgar
Paksh
|
Indian National Congress
|
Nationalist Congress Party
|
Maharashtra Nav Nirman Sena
|
AIMIM
|
Others
|
Panvel
|
51
|
0
|
23
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
-
|
0
|
Bhiwandi- Nizampur
|
19
|
12
|
-
|
47
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
12 *
|
Malegaon
|
9
|
13
|
-
|
28
|
26 **
|
1
|
7
|
2
|
Note * Others in Bhiwandi Nizampur include Konark
Vikas Aghadi – 4. RPI – 4, Samajwadi Party -2 and Indpendents – 2 seats
respectively.
** Nationalist Congress Party – won 20 seats and Janata Dal (S) won 6 seats and together they won 26 seats in Malegaon MC.
Bharatiya Janata Party
has continued its winning streak in Panvel Municipal Corporation election held
on 24th May 2017. The results for 78 seats of Panvel MC were
declared on 26th May 2017 in which BJP won 51 seats, The Bharatiya
Shetkari Kamgar Paksha (BSKP) won 23 seats. The BSKP’s alliance partners
Congress and NCP Won 2 seats each. Prashant Thakur the local MLA gives credit
to Devendra Fadnavis and Narendra Modi for this big victory. The BJP along with
RPI (A) made gains in cosmopolitan areas like Kharghar, Kamothe, Kalamboli and
new Panvel. BJP benefited where the voters found a disconnect with regional and
local party.
Shiv Sena has turned out
to be a big loser as it could not win a single seat and so was MNS.
Bhiwandi- Nizampur
Municipal Corporation gave INC a new lease of life. Out of the total 90 seats,
The Indian National Congress managed to win 47 seats and retain its power. The
demonetisation had badly hit power looms business in Bhiwandi which resulted in
defeat of BJP. The BJP won 19 seats, still up from its 2012 performance when it
won only 8 seats, Konark Viks Aghadi- the BJP ally won 4 seats taking the tally
of saffron alliance to 23 in a Muslim-dominated city. The NCP and Samajwadi Party
Party suffered shocking defeat. The NCP could not win a single seat. In 2012,
NCP had won 9 seats where as Samajwadi could retain only 2 seats out of 16
which it had won in 2012. The Shiv Sena, which had earlier won 16 seats in 2012
could only retain 12 seats.
In Malegaon Municipal
Corporation the INC has emerged biggest winning party by winning 28 seats. NCP
has won 20 seats. Together with the help of NCP, Congress can rule Malegaon MC.
The BJP which did not win a single seat in 2012 elections managed to win 9
seats. It had fielded maximum number of Muslim candidates ie 57 Muslim candidates
but the seats that it won came from the Hindu sections of this Muslim dominated
power loom town.
The All India
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen ( AIMIM) which made its debut won 7 seats. The
Shiv Sena won 13 seats thus improving its performance from 11 seats it had won
in 2012.
Out of three elections
held in May 2017, Congress has managed to win 2 Corporations of Bhiwandi-
Nizampur and Malegaon Municipal Corporation which are powerlooms dominated
towns. The relatively newly established Panvel Municipal Corporation has chosen
BJP as its ruling party.