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Counting under way for Kerala local bodies polls
Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:43:34 PM, IANS
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Thiruvananthapuram: Counting of votes in the
Kerala local bodies elections was under way Wednesday, with poll
officials saying the Congress-led opposition was ahead of the
ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) in municipalities and
corporations.
UDF, which was wiped out in the 2005 polls, has already won in the
Kochi corporation. It is leading in the Thrissur and
Thiruvananthapuram corporations.
At the Kollam corporation, the LDF is all set to return to power
and the counting for the Kozhikode corporation will be done Oct
31. During the last polls, all the five corporations in the state
were with the LDF.
In the municipalities, UDF is leading in 28 while LDF is ahead in
22, a poll official said.
The results of districts, block and gram panchayats will be out by
late evening.
The first and second phase of polls were held Oct 23 and Oct 25
respectively.
LDF was in power in 11 of the 14 district panchayats, 33 of 53
municipalities, 114 of 152 block panchayats and 688 of 984 gram
panchayats.
Electronic voting machines were used only in corporations and
municipalities, while traditional ballot papers was used in the
gram, block and district panchayat elections.
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