2011 Tamil Nadu local elections

Elections were held in Tamil Nadu on 17 and 19 October 2011 for the chairs and council members of all local bodies in the state. To the three levels of urban local bodies: 10 chairs (mayors) and 820 members of municipal corporations; 125 chairs and 3,697 members of municipal councils; and 529 chairs and 8,303 members of town councils. To the three tires of rural local bodies: 12,524 chairs and 99,333 members of village panchayats; 385 chairs and 6,470 members of township panchayats; and 31 chairs and 655 members of district panchayats. The ruling party in the state, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), won a landslide victory, securing all of the corporation mayoral posts and a plurality of the other posts.^[1]

2011 Tamil Nadu local elections

← 2006 17 and 19 October 2019 (Rural) → 2022 (Urban) →
All elected seats in the local bodies
Turnout	78.80%
First party Second party   Leader J. Jayalalithaa M. Karunanidhi Party AIADMK DMK Alliance AIADMK Alliance DPA Leader since 1989 1969 Seats won 9864 4059 Percentage 39.02% 26.09%

Election results

AIADMK received 39.02% of the popular vote: 39.24% of the urban vote and 38.69% of the rural vote. DMK received 26.09% of the popular vote: 26.67% of the urban vote and 25.71% of the rural vote. DMDK received 10.11% of the popular vote. Congress received 5.71% of the popular vote. PMK received 3.55% of the popular vote. MDMK received 1.70% of the popular vote. The Communist Party (Marxist) received 1.02% of the popular vote, and the Communist Party 0.71%. Independents received an additional 9.46% of votes.^[2][3]

Elections to village panchayats are non-party contests.

City Municipal Corporation mayoral results^[4]

Corporation	Winner			Runner-up
	Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party
Chennai	Saidai Sa. Duraisamy		AIADMK	M. Subramaniam		DMK
Coimbatore	S. M. Velusamy			N. Karthik
Madurai	V. V. Rajan Chellappa			P. Packianathan
Tiruchirapalli	M. S. R. Jaya			J. Vijaya Jayaraj
Salem	S. Soundappan			S. T. Kalai Amudhan
Tirunelveli	Vijila Sathyanand			S. Amutha
Erode	Mallika Paramasivam			A. Sellaponni Manoharan
Tirupur	A. Visalakshi			K. Selvaraj
Vellore	P. Karthiyayini			R. Rajeswari
Thoothukudi	Sasikala Pushpa			Pon Initha

Urban - Corporation Councilor^[5]

1. AIADMK (71.3%)
2. DMK (15.8%)
3. IND (6.71%)
4. INC (2.07%)
5. MDMK (1.34%)
6. DMDK (0.98%)
7. BJP (0.49%)
8. CPI (0.49%)
9. PMK (0.24%)
10. CPI(M) (0.37%)
11. Others (0.12%)

Urban Local Body results^[4]

Local Body/Party		Corporation Mayor	Corporation Councilor	Municipal chairman	Municipal Councilor	Town Panchayat chairman	Town Pt. Ward Member
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	10	585	90	1,688	287	2,928
	Bharatiya Janata Party	0	4	2	37	13	181
	Communist Party of India	0	4	0	10	2	32
	CPI(M)	0	3	2	20	5	103
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	0	130	23	964	121	1,833
	Indian National Congress	0	17	0	165	24	386
	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	0	11	1	49	7	82
	Pattali Makkal Katchi	0	2	0	60	2	109
	Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam	0	8	2	119	3	395
	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi	0	2	0	13	0	11
	Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0	0	2	0	2
	Rashtriya Janata Dal	0	0	0	1	0	7
	Puthiya Tamilagam	0	0	0	0	0	7
	All India Forward Bloc	0	0	0	0	0	1
	Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi	0	0	0	2	0	3
	Independent politician	0	55	5	554	65	2,179
	Others	0	0	0	12	0	15

Rural Local Body results^[4]

Local Body/Party		District Councilor	Township Councilor
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	602	3,893
	Bharatiya Janata Party	2	29
	Communist Party of India	4	49
	CPI(M)	2	25
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	30	1,007
	Indian National Congress	5	153
	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	2	45
	Pattali Makkal Katchi	3	229
	Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam	5	339
	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi	0	6
	Puthiya Tamilagam	0	9
	Rashtriya Janata Dal	0	1
	Bahujan Samaj Party	0	1
	Independent politician	0	679
	Others	0	2