Phase 1 Voting Begins in Seven Districts

The second phase will be held on December 11, and the vote counting will be held on December 13. This year, the election process is being carried out in two stages: 11,168 wards in the first stage, and 12,408 neighborhoods in the second stage.

Union Minister Suresh Gopi cast his vote for the Kerala local body elections in Thiruvananthapuram. “The people will let the company run as per their taste and fulfill their dreams for the city… We will set the course right… If all the promises made to the people go in vain, the focus is on my party and I think we will make it happen for the welfare and benefit of the people of Kerala, this time through Thiruvananthapuram,” he said.

LoP Kerala Assembly and Congress leader VD Satheesan also cast his vote at a polling booth in Kochi.

Of the 1,199 local bodies in Kerala, where elections were held in two phases this year, 595 local bodies with 11,168 wards – 8,310 wards in 471 grama panchayats, 1,090 wards in 75 block panchayats, 164 wards in seven district panchayats, 1,371 wards in 39 municipalities and 233 wards in three districts are: Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam and Kochi.

On Sunday, Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor appealed to voters in Kerala to actively participate in local body elections and urged them to support United Democratic Front (UDF) candidates to bring meaningful change in governance at the grassroots level.

Posting on