Mumbai, Jan. 16 -- Counting for more than 200 Municipal wards of the Birhanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) started at 10 AM on Friday. The elections for India's richest corporation were held after a gap of 8 years, with the city set to choose its new mayor from the 227 corporators which will be elected today.

In the 2017 elections, the undivided Shiv Sena had secured 84 seats out of the total 227. While being in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party at that point, the alliance had secured the halfway mark of 114 seats, with the BJP winning 82 seats.

The undivided Nationalist Congress party (NCP) chad won 9, while Congress won 31.

The recently concluded Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recorded a voter turnout of 52.94 per...