State Election Commission Officer: local elections on 27th and 30th December
Posted on: 07/Dec/2019 5:07:15 PM
As per the Supreme Court guidance, Tamilnadu state election commission has announced local body elections for Tamilnadu except for the 9 newly formed districts.
In a press meet, the state election commissioner Palainswamy shared:
‘The local elections in Tamil Nadu will be conducted in 2 phases on 27th and 30th December.
The election details announcement will be released on 9th December.
The nomination filing will commence on this day, 9th December morning 10:00 am.
The last day for filing nomination to contest in the local elections is 16th December. The scrutiny of the nominations is scheduled on 17th December. The date for withdrawing nomination is on 19th December.
Polling will commence at 7.00 AM and will conclude at 5.00 PM on 27th and 30th December.
Counting of votes will commence at 8.00 AM on 2nd January 2020.
The village Panchayat elections will be conducted as usual by polling chits. For the local Panchayat administration, 4 colours of voting chits will be used.
The voters’ list is being prepared jointly with the National Information Centre.
In the 1st Phase of the local elections, 37,380 local body postings and in the 2nd Phase, 38,914 local body postings. The priority for allotting symbols will be given to the political parties which have registered but not yet approved.
The election activities will be completed by 4th January 2020. The successfully elected ward members and village members will assume their posts on 6th January 2020. The indirect election for the posts of the district Panchayat President and Vice-president is scheduled on 11th January 2020.
Corporation and other Municipal Ward member elections will be conducted very soon. These elections are postponed due to administrational issues only.
