2019 Tamil Nadu rural local elections

Elections to Local bodies in Tamil Nadu were held in two phases in rural areas in the month of December 2019 viz. 27 December 2019 and 30 December 2019 for 27 districts.[1]

2019 Tamil Nadu Rural Local Elections
27 and 30 December 2019
Turnout77.5%

India's top court also holds the election for remaining 9 newly formed districts from the four existing districts. It is also stated that Election Commission should conduct proper frame rule with the reservations for Women and SC/ST for the newly formed districts and shall conduct the elections for remaining 9 districts.[2][3] Urban Local Body elections (15 municipal corporations, including mayoral posts, 148 municipalities and 561 town panchayats) were also on hold and it will be conducted along with the Rural Local body election held for the 9 newly formed districts.[4] It was initially delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Election Schedule

Phase 1 covers 156 Panchayat unions and Phase 2 covers 158 Panchayat unions across 27 districts in Tamil Nadu.

Local Body Election Event Date
Election Date Announcement 09.12.2019
Last Date for Filling Nominations 16.12.2019
Scrutiny 17.12.2019
Withdrawal Last Date 19.12.2019
Voting - Phase 1 27.12.2019
Voting - Phase 2 30.12.2019
Results 02.01.2020

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 Tamil Nadu State Election Commission website[5][6]

Rural Local Body results
Local Body/PartyDistrict Panchayat Chairmen [7]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.[8][9]

i.e. The elected Councillors of the local bodies will elect the heads of the urban local bodies among-st themselves after the results.[10]

References
  1. "Phase 1 of Tamil Nadu local body polls on December 27". The Hindu. 27 December 2019. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  2. PTI. "Supreme Court puts on hold local body polls in 9 newly-carved out Tamil Nadu districts". @businessline. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  3. "Supreme Court Puts Hold On Tamil Nadu Local Body Elections". NDTV.com. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  4. "Elections to urban local bodies in TN to be put off by a few months - The Federal". TheFederal.com.
  5. "Tamilnadu State Election Commission". tnsec.tn.nic.in. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  6. Tiwari, Nidhi (12 January 2020). "TN civic polls: Heads of local bodies elected indirectly". The Federal. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  7. "AIADMK surges ahead of DMK in indirect elections". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  8. Kumar, J. V. Siva Prasanna (21 November 2019). "No direct election of mayors in Tamil Nadu". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  9. "Tamil Nadu to hold indirect elections for mayors & panchayat chiefs - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  10. 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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