Local body 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

Urban local bodies include 12 Municipal corporations, 148 Municipalities and 561 Town panchayats. Rural local bodies include 12,620 Village Panchayats, 385 Panchayat Unions, and 32 District Panchayats.[4][5]

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.[6] Recent elections to Local bodies were held in two phases in the month of October 2011 - 17 October 2011 and 19 October 2011.[7]

2011 elections[8]

City Municipal Corporation Mayoral results
Sl.No: Corporation Winner Party Runner Party
1 Chennai Saidai Sa. Duraisamy AIADMK M. Subramaniam DMK
2 Coimbatore S. M. Velusamy AIADMK N. Karthik DMK
3 Madurai V. V. Rajan Chellappa AIADMK P. Packianathan DMK
4 Tiruchirapalli M. S. R. Jaya AIADMK J. Vijaya Jayaraj DMK
5 Salem S. Soundappan AIADMK S. T. Kalai Amudhan DMK
6 Tirunelveli Vijila Sathyanand AIADMK S. Amutha DMK
7 Erode Mallika Paramasivam AIADMK A. Sellaponni Manoharan DMK
8 Tirupur A. Visalakshi AIADMK K. Selvaraj DMK
9 Vellore P. Karthiyayini AIADMK R. Rajeswari DMK
10 Thoothukudi L. Sasikala Pushpa AIADMK Pon Initha DMK
Urban Local Body results
Local Body/Party Corporation Mayor Corporation Councillor Municipal Chairman Municipal Councillor Town Panchayat Chairman Town Pt. Ward Member
AIADMK 10 584 89 1,681 285 2,855
BJP 0 4 2 37 13 181
CPI 0 4 0 10 2 33
CPI(M) 0 3 2 20 5 101
DMK 0 130 23 963 121 1,819
INC 0 17 0 165 24 381
MDMK 0 11 1 49 7 82
PMK 0 2 0 60 2 108
DMDK 0 8 2 121 3 390
Independent 0 55 5 553 64 1996

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. ↑ "Administrative divisions of Tamil Nadu". Govt. of Tamil Nadu. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  5. ↑ "Election to Local Bodies, Press Release" (PDF). Tamil Nadu State Election Commission. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  6. ↑ "Conduct of Local Body elections". Rural development and Panchayat raj Dept., Govt. of Tamil Nadu. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  7. ↑ "AIADMK sweeps local body elections". The Hindu. 21 October 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  8. ↑ "Online Result for Local Body elections 2011". Tamil Nadu State Election Commission. Retrieved 25 October 2011.

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