2011 Tamil Nadu local elections

Template:Infobox election Elections were held in Tamil Nadu on 17 and 19 October 2011 for the chairs and council members of all local bodies in the state. To the three levels of urban local bodies: 10 chairs (mayors) and 820 members of municipal corporations; 125 chairs and 3,697 members of municipal councils; and 529 chairs and 8,303 members of town councils. To the three tires of rural local bodies: 12,524 chairs and 99,333 members of village panchayats; 385 chairs and 6,470 members of township panchayats; and 31 chairs and 655 members of district panchayats. The ruling party in the state, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), won a landslide victory, securing all of the corporation mayoral posts and a plurality of the other posts.

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
	Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party
Chennai	Saidai Sa. Duraisamy	Template:Party name with color	M. Subramaniam	Template:Party name with color
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 Local Body results

Local Body/Party		Corporation Mayor	Corporation Councilor	Municipal chairman	Municipal Councilor	Town Panchayat chairman	Town Pt. Ward Member
Template:Full party name with color	10	585	90	1,688	287	2,928
Template:Full party name with color	0	4	2	37	13	181
Template:Full party name with color	0	4	0	10	2	32
Template:Party name with color	0	3	2	20	5	103
Template:Full party name with color	0	130	23	964	121	1,833
Template:Full party name with color	0	17	0	165	24	386
Template:Full party name with color	0	11	1	49	7	82
Template:Full party name with color	0	2	0	60	2	109
Template:Full party name with color	0	8	2	119	3	395
Template:Full party name with color	0	2	0	13	0	11
Template:Full party name with color	0	0	0	2	0	2
Template:Full party name with color	0	0	0	1	0	7
Template:Full party name with color	0	0	0	0	0	7
Template:Full party name with color	0	0	0	0	0	1
Template:Full party name with color	0	0	0	2	0	3
Template:Full party name with color	0	55	5	554	65	2,179
Template:Party name with color no link	0	0	0	12	0	15

Rural Local Body results

Local Body/Party		District Councilor	Township Councilor
Template:Full party name with color	602	3,893
Template:Full party name with color	2	29
Template:Full party name with color	4	49
Template:Party name with color	2	25
Template:Full party name with color	30	1,007
Template:Full party name with color	5	153
Template:Full party name with color	2	45
Template:Full party name with color	3	229
Template:Full party name with color	5	339
Template:Full party name with color	0	6
Template:Full party name with color	0	9
Template:Full party name with color	0	1
Template:Full party name with color	0	1
Template:Full party name with color	0	679
Template:Party name with color no link	0	2

External links

• Local body election notification 2011
• Tamil Nadu state election commission
• Party Wise Percentage 2011