Even if the AIADMK-led front, which had faced the Assembly election in May 2021, remained intact for the urban local bodies elections, there would not have been much difference in the outcome, a perusal of the data on the vote share of parties reveals.
The reason is not far to seek. In the urban local bodies elections, the ruling DMK-led combine increased its vote share by 4.61% to 49.99% from 45.38% in the Assembly election.
But the combined vote share of the AIADMK and its former allies (the BJP and the PMK) went down to 32.07% this time from 39.71% nine months ago. While the BJP saw a rise of 2.79 percentage points, the AIADMK suffered a fall of 8.14 percentage points and the PMK 2.29 percentage points.
