Urban Maha votes for BJP and Sena, dumps Cong, NCP and MNS

Urban Maharashtra voted in favour of BJP and Shiv Sena in these elections with the former way ahead in the race while Congress, NCP and the MNS were decimated.
Of the 77 seats in the 'Golden Triangle' region of the state, comprising Mumbai and its metropolitan region along with Pune and Nashik, BJP won 36 seats. Sena managed to clinch 24 seats in the Golden Triangle.
This zone is known as such due to the level of economic prosperity which it enjoys. It is also one of the most thickly urbanised regions in the state, spread across five districts and 14 parliamentary seats and covering three major cities and satellite townships.

BJP won 24 seats out of a total 60 seats in the Mumbai- Thane section of this zone. It made a clean sweep of Pune and the satellite city of Pimpri-Chinchwad by winning eight seats. BJP's former ally Sena, whose roots are in Mumbai, won 21 seats in the belt.
Almost 90 per cent of the Assembly seats in this zone are highly urbanised with 63 constituencies falling within Mumbai and its metropolitan region.
The Golden Triangle is strategically located, stretching from Mumbai and its Metropolitan Region, which falls in the Konkan belt, to Nashik in northern Maharashtra and from there to Pune and its metropolitan region in the western part of the state.

While Mumbai is the business capital of the country, Pune is a fast-growing Metro, thanks to its booming IT sector. Nashik is one of the most rapidly growing cities in the state and enjoys good connectivity with both Mumbai and Pune.
In the Mumbai-Thane belt, BJP not only breached the Congress bastions in the urban areas of Pune and Mumbai, but managed to win seats in the Marathi-dominated areas as well, which are seen as being the strongholds of the Sena or MNS.
In Mumbai, it wrested seats like Ghatkopar (West) from MNS and the Thane city seat, considered to be a Sena fortress, by comfortable margins.