Four of the six constituencies in the city saw a battle between only Marathi candidates
BJP’s Piyush Goyal is the only non-Marathi candidate to win in city
While MVA was vying for all six seats with Marathi candidates, Mahayuti had put forward four. Of five MPs, four are from MVA and one from Shinde Sena. For the first time in 20 years, the election had pivoted towards Marathi votes, with three seats contested directly between Sena UBT and Shinde Sena, with both having a Marathi base. Even the Congress had given both seats to Marathi candidates and after announcing two non-Marathi candidates in March, BJP took almost a month to decide on a Marathi candidate for the third seat. The Marathi voter percentage, too, was around 37 per cent in Mumbai. In 2004 and 2009, there were only two Marathi MPs, while in 2014 and 2019, there were four Marathi MPs.
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