Kerala Civic Polls Voting

There's an election story from Kerala that you shouldn't miss in the flurry of headlines about Bihar dominating your newsfeed right now. Elections to civic polls were held in Kerala last week and one man's Facebook post about why he didn't vote BJP is now going viral. Here's why - the BJP candidate he was not voting for was his mother.

The Left front's win in Kerala civic polls is an eye opener for Chief Minister Oommen Chandy as the ruling United Democratic Front could only take the second spot. He had earlier said the poll results would be a referendum of his governance.

33-year-old Jenson in Kerala, a first time voter has been proudly flashing his 'inked finger'. He says he refused to vote all these years because being a transgender, he never felt like voting as a male or female. But the state included transgenders as a separate category in this year's civic elections.

In the crucial local body elections in Kerala, the Communist Party of India-Marxist-led Left Democratic Front or LDF has emerged the winner.

Counting of votes for the civic polls held on November 2 and 5 in Kerala will be taken up tomorrow amid tight security in different centres across the state and the results are expected by the evening.

Repolling began in 114 booths in Malappuram and Thrissur districts this morning after Electronic Voting Machines developed snags in the second phase of local body polls in seven districts of Kerala.

Over 14 million electorate are eligible to vote today in the second and final phase of Kerala's civic polls which is witnessing a keen contest between the UDF and the LDF.

Over 45 per cent of polling was recorded in the first five hours of local body elections in seven districts in Kerala, even as rains tried to play spoilsport at Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram.

As Kerala votes today in the first phase of the local body polls, seen as the semi-final before assembly elections next year, the growing visibility of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has turned the elections - so far, a fight between the Left and Congress-led coalitions - into a triangular contest.

Political parties in Kerala have backed a proposal of the State Election Commission to introduce multi-post Electronic Voting Machines in three-tier local body elections due in September 2015.

There's an election story from Kerala that you shouldn't miss in the flurry of headlines about Bihar dominating your newsfeed right now. Elections to civic polls were held in Kerala last week and one man's Facebook post about why he didn't vote BJP is now going viral. Here's why - the BJP candidate he was not voting for was his mother.

The Left front's win in Kerala civic polls is an eye opener for Chief Minister Oommen Chandy as the ruling United Democratic Front could only take the second spot. He had earlier said the poll results would be a referendum of his governance.

33-year-old Jenson in Kerala, a first time voter has been proudly flashing his 'inked finger'. He says he refused to vote all these years because being a transgender, he never felt like voting as a male or female. But the state included transgenders as a separate category in this year's civic elections.

In the crucial local body elections in Kerala, the Communist Party of India-Marxist-led Left Democratic Front or LDF has emerged the winner.

Counting of votes for the civic polls held on November 2 and 5 in Kerala will be taken up tomorrow amid tight security in different centres across the state and the results are expected by the evening.

Repolling began in 114 booths in Malappuram and Thrissur districts this morning after Electronic Voting Machines developed snags in the second phase of local body polls in seven districts of Kerala.

Over 14 million electorate are eligible to vote today in the second and final phase of Kerala's civic polls which is witnessing a keen contest between the UDF and the LDF.

Over 45 per cent of polling was recorded in the first five hours of local body elections in seven districts in Kerala, even as rains tried to play spoilsport at Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram.

As Kerala votes today in the first phase of the local body polls, seen as the semi-final before assembly elections next year, the growing visibility of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has turned the elections - so far, a fight between the Left and Congress-led coalitions - into a triangular contest.

Political parties in Kerala have backed a proposal of the State Election Commission to introduce multi-post Electronic Voting Machines in three-tier local body elections due in September 2015.