Voting for the Phase-I of the local body elections covering wards in 595 local bodies across Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Idukki, Alappuzha, and Ernakulam districts will be held on Tuesday.
Voters in the rest of the seven districts, including Thirussur, Palakkad, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Kannur, Wayanad and Kasaragod would use their franchise on December 11.
As per the figures of the Election Commission, 1,32,83,789 people cast their votes to decide the political future of 75,632 candidates on fray in 23,576 wards across the state in the two phases.
A total of 36,630 candidates are contesting in the first phase of the Kerala local body polls, including 17,056 men, 19,573 women and one transgender candidate, underlining the strong participation of women in grassroots democracy.
The results in all the 1,199 local bodies are scheduled to be announced on December 13. All three major traditional fronts have expressed confidence in garnering the most number of seats in the three-tier local bodies across the southern state.