Election to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is poised for a close finish with an exit poll giving ruling Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party combine 90 to 115 seats and Congress 75 to 95 seats.
Nationalist Congress Party, which is an ally of Congress at the Centre, has been projected to get 10 to 20 of the total 227 seats of BMC, which is the richest corporation in the country with an annual budget of Rs.12,000 crore.
The GFK mode exit poll on NDTV was based on a sample size of 27,472.
Others were shown as getting somewhere around 25 seats.
In the run up to the elections, Congress and NCP were engaged in a war of words blaming each other for the failure to clinch a pre-poll alliance against the saffron parties.
Counting of votes in the poll held on Thursday will be taken up on Friday morning and the results are expected to be declared by evening.