In a massive setback for the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has won 50 out of the 101 wards in the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation, where polling for the local body elections were held in the first phase (which saw a voter turnout of 70.91 per cent) on Tuesday (December 9), according to the Kerala State Election Commission (SEC).
In the meanwhile, the LDF and the UDF won 29 and 19 wards, respectively. Two wards were also won by independent candidates. In Vizhinjam, however, the polling was cancelled after the death of an independent candidate. In the previous local body elections in Thiruvananthapuram in 2020, the LDF had won 52 wards, the BJP-led NDA won 33 and the UDF won 10 wards.
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