Civic Elections

Hyderabad Polls: TRS should use its victory to work towards participative governance

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) royally debuted into Hyderabad’s local body politics, recording a landslide victory by securing 99 of the total 150 seats.

After disastrous civic poll results for the BJP, Shiv Sena asks CM Fadnavis what changed the public mood

The Shiv Sena on Tuesday urged Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to ponder why the public mood changed in one year since the assembly polls as is evident in the results of Sunday's elections

Maharashtra civic polls: BJP tastes defeat on CM Devendra Fadnavis' home turf

A year after storming to power in Maharashtra, the BJP seems to have suffered a considerable erosion of support base in Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' home ground of Vidarbha, losing to the Congress-NCP combine in the municipal council polls in the region

BJP maintains leads in Bengaluru municipal corporation election

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led in the Bengaluru civic corporation's election, according to trends from counting of votes in 197 wards across the city on Tuesday.

SAD-BJP alliance sweeps civic polls in Punjab, CM Badal calls mandate 'pro-people'

SAD-BJP alliance on Wednesday swept the civic polls in Punjab as it won 1,161 seats out of results declared in 2,037 wards.

More than 2,400 candidates to contest for municipal elections tomorrow

The polls to the 272 wards in the three civic bodies -- East, North and South -- carved out of the existing Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will begin at 8 am and end at 5:30 pm.

Is our disappointment with low voter turnout in south Mumbai valid?

Why do the ‘tony’ neighbourhoods not vote while citizens in areas like Vikhroli and Bhandup show such great enthusiasm? This writer argues that they don't need to.