Candidates of the ruling DMK have won in over 70% of the wards in the municipal corporations for which results were declared as of 4 p.m. Tuesday by the Tamil Nadu State Election Commission.
In the municipalities, the DMK candidates secured 61.94% of the wards and in the town panchayats 59.24%.
The Congress, a DMK ally, won in 48 corporation wards, 140 municipality wards and 367 town panchayat wards.
