May 2017, Civic Elections in Panvel, Bhiwandi- Nizampur and Malegaon Municipal Corporations.

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 24^th May 2017. The results for 78 seats of Panvel MC were declared on 26^th 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.