DMK Sweeps Tamil Nadu Urban Civic Polls, Stalin Thanks Alliance Partners

The polls were conducted on 19 February this year after a decade-long gap. The voter turnout was 60.7 percent.

Tamil Nadu (TN) Chief Minister (CM) MK Stalin's Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) made a clean sweep in the state's urban civic polls on Tuesday, 22 February. This is the party's fourth consecutive win in these polls.

Reacting to the win, Stalin said it reflected the people's faith in the DMK government, reported NDTV.

In Greater Chennai Corporation, the DMK won 153 of the 200 wards while AIADMK managed to grab 15. DMK’s allies also captured a signigicant number of seats – Congress (13), CPI(M) (4), CPI(1) VCK (4), MDMK (2), and IUML (1), while the BJP won one seat.

The DMK also won 75 percent of the seats in western Tamil Nadu. The All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) had swept the polls in western Tamil Nadu last year.