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Councillors-elect in Tirunelveli taken to resort

As the councilor-elects are prone to possible ‘poaching’ ahead of the indirect election for the posts of Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Tirunelveli Corporation by the all-powerful aspirants, they have been taken to a seaside resort near Thiruvananthapuram.

The Hindu

Voters give a thumbs down to polarization bids

CHENNAI: The BJP’s attempts to polarise votes on communal lines hasn’t paid off everywhere. In ward 8 of Melur municipality in Madurai district, where a BJP booth agent objected to women voters wearing the hijab, the party’s candidate got only 10 votes. The DMK nominee won easily.

The Times of India

TN civic polls | DMK’s uniform performance stands out

The DMK also emerged victorious in the Kongu-belt, which is considered to be the fortress of the AIADMK

The Hindu

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Tamil Nadu local body polls: DMK tsunami sweeps opposition parties, many rival candidates lose their deposits

CHENNAI: The DMK has decimated the opposition, with rival candidates in constituencies such as Harbour, Saidapet and Kolathur losing their deposits.

The Times of India

Tamil Nadu local body polls: BJP manages to bag a seat in Chennai

CHENNAI: The BJP has managed to win one ward in the polls for Greater Chennai Corporation. Its candidate Uma Anandhan triumphed in ward 134, polling 5,539 votes, followed by the Congress’s Sushila Gopalkrishnan with 3,503 votes and the AIADMK’s Anuradha with 2695.

The Times of India

Tamil Nadu local body polls: DMK paints Chennai red-black

CHENNAI: The DMK is back in power in the Greater Chennai Corporation after almost 11 years. The party’s alliance bagged 178 of the 200 councillor seats, decimating the AIADMK.

The Times of India

Tamil Nadu local body polls: Going it alone proves disastrous for AIADMK

CHENNAI: The confidence of the AIADMK, which parted ways with the BJP ahead of the urban local body polls, was clearly misplaced. In 2016, J Jayalalithaa’s AIADMK swept the assembly election on its own.

The Times of India

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Tamil Nadu local body polls: DMK does victory dance over opposition debris

CHENNAI: Two days before the urban local body elections in Tamil Nadu, DMK president and chief minister M K Stalin told TOI that his party will record a hat-trick electoral victory. On Tuesday, the ruling party did just that.

The Times of India

Tamil Nadu urban local body polls: DMK front scores 96/100 in Coimbatore corporation

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The Times of India

Tamil Nadu urban local body polls: DMK recaptures Fort Chennai

CHENNAI: In a landslide victory, the ruling DMK took back control of the Greater Chennai Corporation winning 153 of the 165 city wards it contested – at a success rate of about 93%. At least seven DMK candidates won by a margin of more than 10,000 votes.

The Times of India

Tambaram, Avadi too go the Chennai way

CHENNAI: Reflecting Chennai's voting pattern, the two newly formed corporations of Tambaram and Avadi have given the DMK a comfortable lead.

The Times of India

Game, set, match: DMK sweeps local body polls in Tamil Nadu

CHENNAI: Nine months after storming to power in Tamil Nadu, the DMK on Tuesday swept the urban local body elections. It won a majority in all the 21 corporations and came up trumps in a large majority of the 138 municipalities and 489 town panchayats. The new councillors will elect…

The Times of India

21-year-old set to be youngest councillor in Chennai corporation

CHENNAI: Villivakkam resident A Priyadharshini is set to be the youngest councillor in the city corporation. The 21-year- old daughter of an autorickshaw driver member, who is a member of DMK ally CPM, won from ward 98 in Central Chennai by a margin of 8,695 votes. The AIADMK candidate managing…

The Times of India

With western turnaround, DMK takes sweet revenge

Ruling party makes massive inroads into the AIADMK’s bastion, capturing almost all the urban local bodies

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AIADMK may witness demand for changes in its functioning

Setback was more severe for the party as Theni and Salem, home districts of Panneerselvam and Palaniswami, went the DMK way

The Hindu

AIADMK loses badly in Theni

Brother of OPS wins Periyakulam ward by slender margin

The Hindu

Fort North: A comfortable victory for the DMK

Like the Assembly election last year, the DMK combine has swept the urban local bodies polls in the northern districts

The Hindu

Civic election results throw up no surprises

DMK’s strike rate has grown wider than AIADMK’s

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DMK-led front maintains winning streak in central region

It bags all four corporations and a majority of municipalities and town panchayats

The Hindu

Tamil Nadu civic polls: Victory a recognition for Dravidian model of development, says Stalin

He urges the elected representatives to truly work for people’s welfare

The Hindu

DMK sweeps all the four municipalities in Ramanathapuram district

RAMANATHAPURAM

The Hindu

First DMK Mayor for Dindigul Corporation

DINDIGUL

The Hindu

DMK headed towards victory in Tiruchi, Karur Corporations

Disappointing performance by AIADMK

The Hindu

DMK-led front wins 70% of the wards declared till 4 p.m.

AIADMK won in 108 corporation wards, 589 municipality wards and 1,206 town panchayat wards

The Hindu

Tamil Nadu civic polls: DMK heading for landslide victory in Greater Chennai Corporation

As of 3 p.m., the party won in 45 of the 57 wards for which results were declared

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