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]

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 local body elections

This section is an excerpt from 2011 Tamil Nadu local elections § Election results.[edit]

AIADMK received 39.02% of the popular vote: 39.24% of the urban vote and 38.69% of the rural vote. DMK received 26.09% of the popular vote: 26.67% of the urban vote and 25.71% of the rural vote. DMDK received 10.11% of the popular vote. Congress received 5.71% of the popular vote. PMK received 3.55% of the popular vote. MDMK received 1.70% of the popular vote. The Communist Party (Marxist) received 1.02% of the popular vote, and the Communist Party 0.71%. Independents received an additional 9.46% of votes.[9][10]

Elections to village panchayats are non-party contests.

City Municipal Corporation mayoral results[11]
Corporation Winner Runner-up
Candidate Party Candidate Party
ChennaiSaidai Sa. Duraisamy AIADMKM. Subramaniam DMK
CoimbatoreS. M. VelusamyN. Karthik
MaduraiV. V. Rajan ChellappaP. Packianathan
TiruchirapalliM. S. R. JayaJ. Vijaya Jayaraj
SalemS. SoundappanS. T. Kalai Amudhan
TirunelveliVijila SathyanandS. Amutha
ErodeMallika ParamasivamA. Sellaponni Manoharan
TirupurA. VisalakshiK. Selvaraj
VelloreP. KarthiyayiniR. Rajeswari
ThoothukudiSasikala PushpaPon Initha

Urban - Corporation Councilor[12]

  AIADMK (71.34%)
  DMK (15.85%)
  IND (6.71%)
  INC (2.07%)
  MDMK (1.34%)
  DMDK (0.98%)
  BJP (0.49%)
  CPI (0.49%)
  PMK (0.24%)
  CPI(M) (0.37%)
  Others (0.12%)
Urban Local Body results[11]
Local Body/PartyCorporation MayorCorporation CouncilorMunicipal chairmanMunicipal CouncilorTown Panchayat chairmanTown Pt. Ward Member
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam10585901,6882872,928
Bharatiya Janata Party0423713181
Communist Party of India04010232
CPI(M)032205103
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam0130239641211,833
Indian National Congress017016524386
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam011149782
Pattali Makkal Katchi020602109
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam0821193395
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi02013011
Bahujan Samaj Party000202
Rashtriya Janata Dal000107
Puthiya Tamilagam000007
All India Forward Bloc000001
Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi000203
Independent politician0555554652,179
Others00012015
Rural Local Body results[11]
Local Body/PartyDistrict CouncilorTownship Councilor
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam6023,893
Bharatiya Janata Party229
Communist Party of India449
CPI(M)225
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam301,007
Indian National Congress5153
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam245
Pattali Makkal Katchi3229
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam5339
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi06
Puthiya Tamilagam09
Rashtriya Janata Dal01
Bahujan Samaj Party01
Independent politician0679
Others02

2019 Rural local body election

This section is an excerpt from 2019 Tamil Nadu local elections § Election results.[edit]

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 Tamil Nadu State Election Commission website[13][14]

Rural Local Body results
Local Body/PartyDistrict Panchayat Chairmen [15]District Panchayat CouncillorsPanchayat Union ChairmenPanchayat Union Councillor
DMK122431252111
AIADMK132141401797
INC0135132
CPI07364
BJP07388
PMK1167224
AMMK00294
CPI(M)02033
DMDK04099
MDMK02020
VCK0108
TMC(M)0108
NTK0000
Independent0325440
Total seats faced election265153145090
  • Corporation Mayor, Chairman of Municipalities and Town panchayat will be elected through in-direct election method.[16][17]
i.e. The elected Councillors of the local bodies will elect the heads of the urban local bodies among-st themselves after the results.[18]

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

2022 Urban local body election

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. 1 2 "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. ↑ "கட்சிகள் பெற்ற வாக்கு விழுக்காடு". Archived from the original on 27 October 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  10. ↑ "பாமக பெற்ற வாக்கு விழுக்காடு". Archived from the original on 27 October 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  11. 1 2 3 "உள்ளாட்சித் தேர்தல்கள் முடிவுகள் - 2011" (PDF). www.tnsec.tn.nic.in (pdf). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  12. ↑ "மாநகராட்சி வார்டு உறுப்பினர் தேர்தல் 2011" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  13. ↑ "Tamilnadu State Election Commission". tnsec.tn.nic.in. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  14. ↑ Tiwari, Nidhi (12 January 2020). "TN civic polls: Heads of local bodies elected indirectly". The Federal. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  15. ↑ "AIADMK surges ahead of DMK in indirect elections". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  16. ↑ Kumar, J. V. Siva Prasanna (21 November 2019). "No direct election of mayors in Tamil Nadu". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  17. ↑ "Tamil Nadu to hold indirect elections for mayors & panchayat chiefs - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  18. ↑ 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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