Mumbai, Jan. 16 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena Yuti is heading towards the halfway mark of 114 seats in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls, as the State Election Commission declared the results for 204 out of 227 seats for India's richest civic body.

The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance has won 110 seats. The BJP has emerged as the largest party in the BMC polls, winning 85 seats while alliance partner Shiv Sena led on 25. The Thackeray brothers, who joined hands for the Mumbai local body polls to contest on the Marathi manoos plank, trailed behind at 65 seats, with Shiv Sena (UBT) doing the heavy lifting, winning 60 seats.

Congress has won 19 seats, NCP (SP) one, NCP two, and others seven.

According to Maharashtra...