Women will have a voice in India’s richest civic body but will gender concerns be reflected in debates? A total of 120 women got elected the Mumbai Mahanagarpalika in 2026, crossing the 50 per cent mark: with 227 corporators in all, BJP has sent 47 women to the civic body, Shiv Sena (UBT)34, SS (Shinde) 17, Congress 12, MIM 4, MNS 4 and NCP and Samajwadi Parti one each.
The controversial and recently conducted elections to the civic body –given huge allegations of malpractices in voter lists (exclusion of voters), delible ink being used, introduction of new machines etc. were conducted over 24 administrative wards. From sewerage operations to public health, the BMC handles local civic issues in these wards, named alphabetically from A to T. Each administrative ward is further subdivided into smaller electoral wards for which corporators are elected. There are 227 of these electoral wards. Out of these, 113 fall under the General Category, while 114 are reserved for women, including women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, and the Backwards Class of Citizens. So 120 women elected in all.
Of these 120 women, there are 13 Muslim women and one Christian woman. The break up party wise is as follows:
BJP’s winning women candidates
Ward 2 – Tejaswi Ghosadkar
Ward 8 – Yogita Patil
Ward 13 – Rani Dwivedi-Nighot
Ward 14 – Seema Kiran Shinde
Ward 15 – Jigna Shah
Ward 16 – Shweta Korgaonkar
Ward 17 – Dr Shilpa Sangore
Ward 19 – Dakshata Kavthankar
Ward 21 – Leena Deherkar
Ward 24 – Swait Jaiswal
Ward 25 – Nisha Bangera
Ward 27 – Neelam Gurav
Ward 31 – Manisha Yadav
Ward 44 – Sangeeta Sharma
Ward 46 – Yogita Koli
Ward 52 – Priti Satam
Ward 57 – Shrikala Pille
Ward 60 – Saylee Kulkarni
Ward 69 – Sudha Singh
Ward 71 – Sunita Makvani
Ward 72 – Mamta Yadav
Ward 80 – Disha Yadav
Wars 81 – Kesarben Murji Patel
Ward 82 – Ameen Jagdeshwari
Ward 84 – Anjali Samant
Ward 98 – Alka Kerkar
Ward 100 – Swapna Mhatre
Ward 103 – Hetal Gala
Ward 105 – Anita Vaiti
Ward 108 – Deepika Ghag
Ward 112 – Sakshi Dalvi
Ward 116 – Jagruti Patil
Ward 126 – Archana Bhalerao
Ward 129 – Ashwini Matekar
Ward 131 – Rakhi Jadhav
Ward 132 – Ritu Tavde
Ward 149 – Sushma Sawant
Ward 151 – Kashish Phulwariya
Ward 152 – Asha Marathe
Ward 172 – Rajeshri Shirvadkar
Ward 173 – Shilpa Keluskar
Ward 174 – Sakshi Kanojia
Ward 176 – Rekha Yadav
Ward 190 – Sheetal Gambhir
Ward 218 – Snehal Tendulkar
Ward 222 – Rita Makvana
Ward 227 – Gaoravi Shivalkar-Narwekar
These total 47 women councillors
Shiv Sena (UBT) women councillors
Ward 12 – Sarika Zhore
Ward 32 – Geeta Bhandari
Ward 39 – Pushpa Kalambe
Ward 56 – Laxmi Nitin Bhatiya
Ward 64 – Khan Rashid
Ward 73 – Lona Rawat
Ward 77 – Shivani Parab
Ward 83 – Sonali Sabe
Ward 88 – Sharvari Parab
Ward 93 – Rohini Kamble
Ward 94 – Pragya Bhutkar
Ward 114 – Rajul Patil
Ward 117 – Shweta Pawaskar
Ward 118 – Sunita Jadhav
Ward 121 – Priyadarshini Nagesh
Ward 124 – Sakina Ayub Sheikh
Ward 127 – Swarupa Patil
Ward 153 – Minakshi Patankar
Ward 155 – Snehal Shivkar
Ward 157 – Dr. Sarita Mhaske
Ward 158 – Chitra Sangle
Ward 169 – Pravina Morajkar
Ward 171 – Adv. Rani Yerunkar
Ward 186 – Archana Shinde
Ward 189- Harshala More
Ward 191 – Vishakha Raut
Ward 193 – Hemangi Varlikar
Ward 198 – Aboli Khadiye
Ward 199 – Kishori Pednekar
Ward 200 – Urmila Panchal
Ward 202 – Shraddha Jadhav
Ward 203 – Shraddha Pednekar
Ward 210 – Sonam Jamsudkar
Ward 220 – Sampada Mayekar
This totals 34 women corporators from SS (UBT).
Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) women councillors:
Ward 1 – Rekha Yadav
Ward 11 – Dr. Aditi Khursange
Ward 18 – Sandhya Doshi
Ward 42 – Dhanashree Bharadkar
Ward 51 – Varsha Tembvalkar
Ward 78 – Sofi Abdul Jabbar
Ward 133 – Nirmiti Kanade
Ward 142 – Apeksha Khandekar
Ward 146 – Samruddhi Kate
Ward 147 – Pragya Sadafule
Ward 148 – Anjali Naik
Ward 156 – Ashwini Matekar
Ward 160 – Kiran Landge
Ward 163 – Shaila Lande
Ward 166 – Minal Sanjay Turde
Ward 180 – Trushna Vishvasrao
Ward 209 – Yamini Jadhav
This totals 17 women corporators.
Women Corporators from Congress:
Ward 33 – Qamar Jahan Moin Siddiqui
Ward 28 – Ajanta Yadav
Ward 61 – Divya Sinh
Ward 90 – Adv. Tulip Miranda
Ward 110 – Asha Suresh Koparkar
Ward 101 – Karen Dmello
Ward 150 – Vaishali Ajit Shendekar
Ward 179 – Ayesha Vanu
Ward 183 – Asha Kale
Ward 184 – Sajida Khan
Ward 213 – Nasima Javed Juneja
Ward 216 – Rajashree Bhatankar
Ward 224- Ruksana Parikh Nurulamin
This makes a total of 13 women candidates.
MNS Four Women Councillors
Ward 38 – Surekha Parab
Ward 74 – Vidha Aarya
Ward 128 – Sae Shirke
Ward 205- Supriya Dilip Dalvi
AIMIM: (Four councillors)
Ward 134 – Mehjabin Khan
Ward 139 – Shabana Sheikh
Ward 143 – Shabana Kazi
Ward 145 – Khairunnisa Hussein
Samajwadi Party (One woman candidate who won)
Ward 212 – Abrahani Amrin Shehzad
Nationalist Congress Party (One woman candidate who won)
Ward 168 – Dr Saeeda Khan
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