More than 3.48 crore voters in Maharashtra will vote on Thursday, January 15, 2026, for 29 municipal corporations. This includes Mumbai, the country's richest civic body. Voters will choose 2,869 corporators from 15,908 candidates. The big story in Mumbai is the reunion of cousins Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray after 20 years. Except in Mumbai, voters will vote for multiple corporators per ward for the first time under the panel system. Mumbai will continue with the traditional one-ward-one-corporator system, so voters will cast a single vote. Votes will be counted on Friday, January 16. Maharashtra State Election Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare met officials on Wednesday to review preparations. Voting will take place at 39,092 booths using electronic voting machines. The total voters include 1.81 crore men, 1.66 crore women, and 4,596 others. Out of these booths, 3,196 are marked sensitive. Police have deployed 11,938 constables, 42,703 home guards, and 57 State Reserve Police Force companies to maintain law and order. In Mumbai alone, 1,700 candidates contest 227 wards across 10,231 polling booths. A total of 64,375 government officials are on duty. The Congress party is fighting independently alongside Prakash Ambedkar’s Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi. The Thackeray cousins have joined forces after two decades, backed by NCP(SP). Shiv Sena (UBT) contests 163 seats, Raj Thackeray’s party 53, and NCP(SP) 11 seats. BJP aims for 137 seats, while Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena will fight for 90 seats. The Marathi vote bank swing is the main question. Shiv Sena (UBT) expects minority and backward community votes to split due to Maha Vikas Aghadi’s split. The BJP worries about low voter turnout. BJP is focusing on winning most seats, but has assured Shinde that the mayor’s position won’t depend solely on numbers.