Kerala local body bypoll results: LDF wins 22 of 44 seats, BJP just five seats

The Left has predominantly had a better record than the Congress in local body elections in the state. In 2015, the LDF had won 549 of the 941 village panchayat wards, 90 of the 152 block panchayat wards, 7 of 14 district panchayats, 44 of 87 municipalities and four of the six corporations in the state.

This time in the bypolls, the LDF is seen to have wrested six local body wards from the UDF. At the same time, it has lost seven others to the UDF. In Kollam district, it won three of the four wards that went to polls. In Pathanamthitta and Kozhikode districts, it won all wards that it had sitting members in.

The UDF won all the four panchayat wards in Thrissur district besides making gains in Kottayam and Thiruvananthapuram districts. The BJP has retained the ward in Palakkad district besides gaining a municipality ward from the UDF in Alappuzha district.