Kerala local body polls 2020 date and time - CPM vs Congress vs BJP: The counting of votes for local body polls in Kerala is underway at 244 counting centres across the state. With all COVID-19 protocols in place, the counting of votes of Kerala local body elections started at 8 am on Wednesday.

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The final results are expected by 1 pm. State Election Commissioner V Bhaskaran has said the postal votes, including special ballot votes, will be counted first and EVM votes later. The district collectors of several districts of Kerala have imposed section 144 of CrPC on the basis of reports from concerned district police chiefs.  

The clashes between party workers were reported in many places of these districts during the election. The CPM-led Left Democratic Front (LDF), Congress-led, United Democratic Front (UDF) and BJP led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) were in the fray for local body polls in Kerala. The local body polls were held in three phases in Kerala. 78.64 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the third and the final phase of the local body polls. The second phase recorded 76.38 per cent voter turnout and in the first phase, it was 72.67 per cent. 

Initial trends in Kerala civic polls: Left ahead
 

Despite facing a host of controversies ahead of the civic body polls, initial trends on Wednesday showed the ruling CPI-M-led-Left ahead of its detractors.

The Congress-led UDF is putting up a better show in the first round of counting that began at 8 a.m. while the hype created by the BJP is yet to catch on.

The shocker came at the Kochi corporation, where the Congress` mayor candidate N.Venugopal lost by just one vote to the BJP.

In the three-tier local body structure the initial trends indicate that in the six corporations in the state the Left is ahead in four and UDF is ahead in two corporations.

In the municipalities it`s the UDF that leads in 47, while the Left is ahead in 27 and the BJP in 4.

When it comes to the 14 district votes the Left is leading in eight and the UDF in four.

While in the Block Panchayat, the Left is ahead in 23, the UDF in 52 and the BJP in one. 

In the Gram Panchayats the Left is ahead in 159 and the UDF in 144 while the BJP in 16.
 

The story has been taken from a news agency