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]

Local Bodies in Tamil Nadu

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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

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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

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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
Chennai Saidai Sa. Duraisamy AIADMK M. Subramaniam DMK
Coimbatore S. M. Velusamy N. Karthik
Madurai V. V. Rajan Chellappa P. Packianathan
Tiruchirapalli M. S. R. Jaya J. Vijaya Jayaraj
Salem S. Soundappan S. T. Kalai Amudhan
Tirunelveli Vijila Sathyanand S. Amutha
Erode Mallika Paramasivam A. Sellaponni Manoharan
Tirupur A. Visalakshi K. Selvaraj
Vellore P. Karthiyayini R. Rajeswari
Thoothukudi Sasikala Pushpa Pon 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/Party Corporation Mayor Corporation Councilor Municipal chairman Municipal Councilor Town Panchayat chairman Town Pt. Ward Member
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 10 585 90 1,688 287 2,928
Bharatiya Janata Party 0 4 2 37 13 181
Communist Party of India 0 4 0 10 2 32
CPI(M) 0 3 2 20 5 103
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 0 130 23 964 121 1,833
Indian National Congress 0 17 0 165 24 386
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 0 11 1 49 7 82
Pattali Makkal Katchi 0 2 0 60 2 109
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam 0 8 2 119 3 395
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi 0 2 0 13 0 11
Bahujan Samaj Party 0 0 0 2 0 2
Rashtriya Janata Dal 0 0 0 1 0 7
Puthiya Tamilagam 0 0 0 0 0 7
All India Forward Bloc 0 0 0 0 0 1
Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi 0 0 0 2 0 3
Independent politician 0 55 5 554 65 2,179
Others 0 0 0 12 0 15
Rural Local Body results[11]
Local Body/Party District Councilor Township Councilor
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 602 3,893
Bharatiya Janata Party 2 29
Communist Party of India 4 49
CPI(M) 2 25
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 30 1,007
Indian National Congress 5 153
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 2 45
Pattali Makkal Katchi 3 229
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam 5 339
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi 0 6
Puthiya Tamilagam 0 9
Rashtriya Janata Dal 0 1
Bahujan Samaj Party 0 1
Independent politician 0 679
Others 0 2

2019 Rural local body election

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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/Party District Panchayat Chairmen [15] District Panchayat Councillors Panchayat Union Chairmen Panchayat Union Councillor
DMK 12 243 125 2111
AIADMK 13 214 140 1797
INC 0 13 5 132
CPI 0 7 3 64
BJP 0 7 3 88
PMK 1 16 7 224
AMMK 0 0 2 94
CPI(M) 0 2 0 33
DMDK 0 4 0 99
MDMK 0 2 0 20
VCK 0 1 0 8
TMC(M) 0 1 0 8
NTK 0 0 0 0
Independent 0 3 25 440
Total seats faced election 26 515 314 5090
  • 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

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See also

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References

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  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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b c "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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