Update at 1930 hours: The Maharashtra Gram Panchayat Election 2021 result will be declared on Monday. In the panchayat polls in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena-backed candidates are leading on maximum number of seats, for which counting is still underway. So far, trends and results are out for 7426 out of the 14234 seats. Out of these, Shiv Sena is leading on 1735 seats while the BJP is ahead on 1601 seats. Deputy CM Ajit Pawar said that results are in favour of ruling alliance.

The NCP-supported candidates are ahead on 1207 panchayat seats whereas the Congress is ahead on 1394 seats. Gram panchayat elections do not happen on party symbols but the candidates are backed by parties.

Polling for elections to over 14,000 gram panchayats in 34 of the total 36 districts in the western state had taken place on Friday. There are 27,920 gram panchayats in Maharashtra. However, on about 20,000-odd seats, members have already been elected unopposed. In atleast 14 Thane district, villages boycotted the gram panchayat elections to press for their demand to be a part of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation.

Update on 1445 hours: The counting for gram panchayat elections began today, with the results expected soon. As per trends available at 2:15 pm, the BJP has left Shiv Sena behind and is surging ahead in 451 seats, while Sena is ahead in 425 seats. The Congress has taken a significant lead and is ahead in 320 seats. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was leading in 300 seats

The BJP has surpassed Shiv Sena as per trends available at 1:10 pm. The saffron party was leading in 390 seats, while Sena was ahead in 381 seats. While NCP was ahead in 283 seats, Congress was leading in 262 seats. Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) was ahead in five seats.

The latest updates at around 12 noon showed that Shiv Sena was surging ahead in 359 seats, while the opposition BJP was leading in 336 seats. Meanwhile, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was also performing well and was leading in 259 seats.

According to trends available at 10:30 am: Shiv Sena was leading in 323 seats, BJP was also going strong and was ahead in 261 seats. As the votes for were being counted for Gram Panchayat Election Maharashtra 2021, the NCP was reported to be leading in 218 seats and Congress in 136 seats.

As per earlier updates, Shiv Sena was surging ahead in 278 seats, & BJP was ahead in 257 seats. As the voted were being counted for the Maharashtra Gram Panchayat polls, the earlier trends available indicated that NCP was leading in 218 seats, while the Congress was ahead in 124 seats.

The State Election Commission had announced that voting for 162 gram panchayats in six talukas of Gadchiroli, a Naxal hotbed, will be conducted on January 20.

After receiving evidence of public auctioning of the posts of sarpanch and members of the local governing bodies, the poll panel had cancelled the poll process in Umrane and Khondamali gram panchayats, falling under Nashik and Nandurbar districts respectively.

In Thane, 14 villages boycotted the gram panchayat elections to press for their demand to be a part of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation.

In December 2020, the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi Alliance (MVA), comprising of Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP registered a victory in the graduates’ and teachers’ constituencies in the Legislative Council elections.