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Strong UDF show, BJP takes T’puram
The New Indian Express Shivamogga
|December 14, 2025
LOCAL body polls often signal the changing course of Kerala politics.
On Saturday, political Kerala witnessed one of the biggest comebacks of recent times, with the Congress-led UDF scripting an authoritative victory in the two-phase local body elections held on December 9 and 11, and the ruling LDF nearly washed out.
Riding on an anti-incumbency wave, the UDF garnered a stupendous victory, winning four out of six municipal corporations, seven district panchayats, 54 municipalities, 79 block panchayats and 505 grama panchayats. The LDF lost
This story is from the December 14, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Shivamogga.
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