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Elections to Local Bodies in Tamil Nadu are conducted once in five years to elect the representatives to the Urban and Rural local bodies. These elections are conducted by Tamil Nadu State Election Commission

Local Bodies in Tamil Nadu

Main article: Local Bodies in Tamil Nadu

Urban local bodies include 21 Municipal corporations, 148 Municipalities and 561 Town panchayats.

Rural local bodies include 12,620 Village Panchayats, 385 Panchayat Unions, and 37 District Panchayats.

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

2011 local body elections

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

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.

Elections to village panchayats are non-party contests.

City Municipal Corporation mayoral results
Corporation	Winner			Runner-up
Corporation	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

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
	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
	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

Main article: 2019 Tamil Nadu rural local elections This section is an excerpt from 2019 Tamil Nadu local elections § 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

Rural Local Body results
Local Body/Party		District Panchayat Chairmen	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.

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

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

2022 Urban local body election

Main article: 2022 Tamil Nadu urban local body elections This section is an excerpt from 2022 Tamil Nadu local elections § Election results.

Counting of votes commenced on 22 February 2022. Official results were published on Tamil Nadu State Election Commission website.

Date	Municipal corporation	Government before
19 February 2022	Greater Chennai Corporation		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
	Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation
	Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation
	Corporation of Madurai
	Salem City Municipal Corporation
	Tirunelveli City Municipal Corporation
	Tiruppur City Municipal Corporation
	Vellore Corporation
	Erode City Municipal Corporation
	Thoothukudi Municipal Corporation
	Thanjavur City Municipal Corporation
	Dindigul City Municipal Corporation
	Hosur City Municipal Corporation	did not exist
	Nagercoil Corporation
	Avadi City Municipal Corporation
	Kancheepuram City Municipal Corporation
	Karur City Municipal Corporation
	Cuddalore City Municipal Corporation
	Sivakasi City Municipal Corporation
	Tambaram City Municipal Corporation
	Kumbakonam City Municipal Corporation

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