Local elections in Tamil Nadu

Elections to Local Bodies in Tamil Nadu are conducted once in five years to elect the representatives to the Urban and Rural local bodies.[1][2] These elections are conducted by Tamil Nadu State Election Commission[3]

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Local Bodies in Tamil Nadu
Main article: Local Bodies in Tamil Nadu

Urban local bodies include 21 Municipal corporations, 148 Municipalities and 561 Town panchayats.[4]

Rural local bodies include 12,620 Village Panchayats, 385 Panchayat Unions, and 37 District Panchayats.[5][6]

Previous elections

The first election to the local bodies in Tamil Nadu were held in October 1996. Subsequent elections were conducted in October 2001 and October 2006.[7] Recent elections to Local bodies were held in two phases in the month of October 2011 - 17 October 2011 and 19 October 2011.[8]

2011 elections

Source:[9]

City Municipal Corporation Mayoral results
CorporationWinnerPartyRunnerParty
ChennaiSaidai Sa. DuraisamyAIADMKM. SubramaniamDMK
Coimbatore Municipal CorporationS. M. VelusamyAIADMKN. KarthikDMK
MaduraiV. V. Rajan ChellappaAIADMKP. PackianathanDMK
TiruchirapalliM. S. R. JayaAIADMKJ. Vijaya JayarajDMK
SalemS. SoundappanAIADMKS. T. Kalai AmudhanDMK
TirunelveliVijila SathyanandAIADMKS. AmuthaDMK
ErodeMallika ParamasivamAIADMKA. Sellaponni ManoharanDMK
TirupurA. VisalakshiAIADMKK. SelvarajDMK
VelloreP. KarthiyayiniAIADMKR. RajeswariDMK
ThoothukudiL. Sasikala PushpaAIADMKPon InithaDMK
Urban Local Body results
Local Body/PartyCorporation MayorCorporation CouncillorMunicipal ChairmanMunicipal CouncillorTown Panchayat ChairmanTown Pt. Ward Member
AIADMK10584891,6812852,855
BJP0423713181
CPI04010233
CPI(M)032205101
DMK0130239631211,819
INC017016524381
MDMK011149782
PMK020602108
DMDK0821213390
Independent0555553641996

2019 ELECTION RESULTS

Counting of votes commenced on 02.01.2020 and continued to go on for the next day(03.01.2020). Official results were published on Tamilnadu State Election Commission website[10][11]

Rural Local Body results
Local Body/Party District Panchayat Chairmans [12] District Panchayat Councillors Panchayat Union Chairmans Panchayat Union Councillor
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, DMK 12 243 125 2110
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, AIADMK 13 214 140 1797
Indian National Congress, INC 0 13 5 132
Communist Party of India, CPI 0 7 3 64
Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP 0 7 3 88
Pattali Makkal Katchi, PMK 1 16 7 224
Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam, AMMK 0 0 2 94
Communist Party of India (Marxist), CPI(M) 0 2 0 33
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam, DMDK 0 4 0 99
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, MDMK 0 2 0 20
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, VCK 0 1 0 8
Tamil Maanila Congress, TMC 0 1 0 8
Naam Tamilar Katchi, NTK 0 0 0 1
Independent 0 3 25 440
Total seats faced election 27 515 314 5090
  • Corporation Mayor, Chairman of Municipalities and Town panchayat will be elected through in-direct election method.[13][14]

i.e. The elected Councillors of the local bodies will elect the heads of the urban local bodies among-st themselves after the results.[15]

Urban Local body elections and elections for the newly formed 9 districts were not held due to pandemic situation.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Formation and Constitution of Rural local bodies". Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, Govt. of Tamil Nadu. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  2. "Elections to Local Bodies in Tamil Nadu". Tamil Nadu State Election Commission. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  3. "Conduct of Local Body Election in Tamil Nadu". Tamil Nadu State Election Commission. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  4. "Elections to urban local bodies in TN to be put off by a few months". The Federal.
  5. "Administrative divisions of Tamil Nadu". Govt. of Tamil Nadu. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  6. "Election to Local Bodies, Press Release" (PDF). Tamil Nadu State Election Commission. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  7. "Conduct of Local Body elections". Rural development and Panchayat raj Dept., Govt. of Tamil Nadu. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  8. "AIADMK sweeps local body elections". The Hindu. 21 October 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  9. "Online Result for Local Body elections 2011". Tamil Nadu State Election Commission. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  10. "Tamilnadu State Election Commission". tnsec.tn.nic.in. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  11. Tiwari, Nidhi (12 January 2020). "TN civic polls: Heads of local bodies elected indirectly". The Federal. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  12. "AIADMK surges ahead of DMK in indirect elections". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  13. Kumar, J. V. Siva Prasanna (21 November 2019). "No direct election of mayors in Tamil Nadu". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  14. "Tamil Nadu to hold indirect elections for mayors & panchayat chiefs - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  15. Mariappan, Julie (20 November 2019). "Tamil Nadu to hold indirect elections for mayors & panchayat chiefs". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 January 2020.


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