New Delhi: BJP secured a comfortable victory in the 74-member Dhule Municipal Corporation on Monday while voters gave a fractured mandate in the Ahmednagar municipal corporation.
BJP won 50 out of 74 seats and gained control of the Dhule civic body for the first time.
The civic body was earlier ruled by NCP. Congress and NCP alliance won 14 seats, Shiv Sena, AIMIM, Samajwadi Party and independents won two seats each, while one seat went to the Bahujan Samaj Party.
In Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation, the ruling Shiv Sena emerged as the single largest party by winning 24 out of 68 seats, followed by NCP and BJP which won 18 and 14 seats, respectively.
Elections to the two civic bodies were held Sunday. Fifteen out of 27 municipal corporations in the state are now being controlled by the BJP either on its own or in alliance.