Tamil Nadu Rural Local Body Election Results Highlights: The ruling DMK and its alliance is set to register a sweeping victory in rural local body elections held in nine districts – in an ostensible boost to Chief Minister M K Stalin’s image of a “good governance” delivery. With a little more than 70 per cent of votes counted till late Tuesday evening, DMK was leading in nearly 1,100 seats of the total 1,381 panchayat union wards and all of the 140 district panchayat wards, indicating a likely victory of the ruling alliance.
The counting of votes for rural local body polls, held in two phases in Tamil Nadu on October 6 and October 9, is still underway at 74 centres in nine districts of Tamil Nadu. The polls were held in Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu, Tenkasi, Vellore, Ranipet, Tiruppatur, Tirunelveli, Villupuram and Kallakurichi. The ruling DMK and AIADMK are the major contenders. AIADMK’s ally the PMK chose to contest on its own from all the nine districts, while another ally the BJP contested alone in Kallakurichi district.
The voter turnout in the first phase of polls was 77.4 per cent while that in the second phase was 78.5 percent, as per Tamil Nadu State Election Commission. According to the poll body, Villupuram witnessed a maximum voter turnout of 83.6 percent and Tirunelveli the lowest of 65 percent. While Kallakurichi saw 82 percent, Ranipet: 75.3, Thirupathur: 73.5, Kancheepuram: 72, Chengalpattu and Tenkasi 70 each, respectively, and Vellore registered 68 percent.
MK Stalin has thanked voters for the result and called it an endorsement of the first five months of his party's government. "We will work even harder... will protect the confidence people have in us. The goodwill for us has increased over the last five months," he said.
The ruling DMK and its alliance is set to register a sweeping victory in rural local body elections held in nine districts – in an ostensible boost to Chief Minister M K Stalin’s image of a “good governance” delivery.
With a little more than 70 per cent of votes counted till late Tuesday evening, DMK was leading in nearly 1,100 seats of the total 1,381 panchayat union wards and all of the 140 district panchayat wards, indicating a likely victory of the ruling alliance. Votes were being counted at 74 counting centres under CCTV surveillance from Tuesday morning.
District panchayat wards: Out of 140 seats, DMK leading in 88, AIADMK in two, others 1
Panchayat union wards: Out of 1,381 seats, DMK leading in 353, AIADMK in 59, others in 37
According to media reports, a candidate, allegedly belonging to BJP, has secured just one vote in the rural local body elections held in the district on October 9, counting for which is underway in Tamil Nadu. D Karthik, who contested from the Kurudampalayam panchayat of Coimbatore district managed to secure only one vote, as per reports.
However, reacting to the media reports, Karthik said that his family's vote was in another ward and therefore they could not vote for him.
According to official Twitter handle of ruling DMK, the party is leading in 121 District Panchayat ward member seats, 201 Panchayat Union ward member seats asper the 4pm update.
The DMK has claimed that the party is leading in 121 seats in District Panchayat Ward member election and in 194 seaats in the Panchayat Union ward member election.
According to local media updates:
Panchayat Union ward members - Of the 1,381 seats, DMK leads in 144 seats, AIADMK leads in 16 seats, others - 15
District Panchayat Ward member - Of the 140 seats, DMK leads in 58 seats, AIADMK leads in three seats
DMK leads in 99 panchayat union ward member seats, AIADMK leads in 17 panchayat union ward member seats.
DMK leads in 71 panchayat union ward member seats, AIADMK leads in 13 panchayat union ward member seats.
DMK leads in 11 of the 140 district panchayat ward member seats and in 20 of the 1,381 panchayat union ward member seats.
DMK leading in 11 of the 140 district panchayat ward member seats and in 20 of the 1,381 panchayat union ward member seats.
DMK is leading in six of the 1,381 panchayat union ward member seats. DMK's P Bhuvaneswari elected unupposed from Ward 13 in Kallakurichi district, K Govindaraju elected unopposed from ward 5 in Kallakurichi .
DMK leading in three of the 140 district panchayat ward member seats.
Tamil Nadu State Election Commission will declare the results for the rural local body polls on its website tnsec.tn.nic.in as and when the results are declared.
The counting process at the Katpadi centre in Vellore has been delayed after the candidates complained that the seal in a ballot box was missing.
State Election Commissioner V Palanikumar and senior officials of the Commission on Monday reviewed the arrangements being made at 74 counting centres. As many as 6,228 police personnel have been deployed for security arrangements.
People’s representatives for a whopping 23,978 posts in rural local bodies in nine districts will be declared today.
The counting of votes began at 8 am. The election results will be updated at the website of the SEC: https://tnsec.tn.nic.in.