The ruling CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) suffered a huge setback in the 2025 local body elections in Kerala with the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) making a strong comeback across Corporations, municipalities and panchayats in the State.

But the big story of the day was the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA emerging as the single-largest front in the high-profile Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, winning 50 of the 101 wards in the LDF-ruled civic body.

Votes polled in the two-phased elections in Kerala on December 9 and December 11 were counted across multiple centres on Saturday.

Of the six Corporations, the UDF won four — Kollam, Kochi, Thrissur and Kannur, 505 of the 941 grama panchayats, 79 of the 152 grama panchayats, seven out of the 14 district panchayats an

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