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[1][2]
Corporation Mayor, Chairman of Municipalities and Town panchayat will be elected through in-direct election method.[4][5]
i.e. The elected Councillors of the local bodies will elect the heads of the urban local bodies among-st themselves after the results.[6]
References
^"Tamilnadu State Election Commission". tnsec.tn.nic.in. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
^Tiwari, Nidhi (12 January 2020). "TN civic polls: Heads of local bodies elected indirectly". The Federal. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
^"AIADMK surges ahead of DMK in indirect elections". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
^Kumar, J. V. Siva Prasanna (21 November 2019). "No direct election of mayors in Tamil Nadu". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
^"Tamil Nadu to hold indirect elections for mayors & panchayat chiefs - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
^Mariappan, Julie (20 November 2019). "Tamil Nadu to hold indirect elections for mayors & panchayat chiefs". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
External links
Local body election model 2019
Local body election notification 2019
Official TN Government Gazette election notification 2019