Thiruvananthapuram: The 2025 local body elections in Kerala will be held in two phases on December 9 and 11. Seven southern districts (Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Idukki, Alappuzha and Ernakulam) will go to the polls on Tuesday, December 9. The rest (Thrissur, Malappuram, Wayanad, Palakkad, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasaragod) will vote on Thursday, December 11.

The schedule was announced by State Election Commissioner A Shajahan here on Monday. The SEC said that the model code of conduct has come into force. Polling will be held from 7 am to 6 pm, and a mock poll will be held in every booth one hour before the actual polling begins.
The votes will be counted on Saturday, December 13, from 8 am. 

The last date for filing nominations is November 21. Their scrutiny will be held on November 22. The last date for withdrawal of nominations is November 24.

The elections will be held in 1,199 of the 1,200 local bodies in Kerala. Mattannur Municipality will be the sole exception as its tenure will end only on September 10, 2027. So, except for the 36 wards in Mattannur Municipality, 23,612 wards will go to polls on December 9 and 11. After delimitation, the total number of wards in Kerala has gone up to 23,612 from 21,900.

Elections will be held in 17,337 wards in the grama panchayats, 2,267 wards in the block panchayats, 346 district panchayat wards, 3,205 municipality wards and 421 corporation wards.

After the latest revision, the total number of voters in Kerala is 2,84,30,761. Of this, 1,34,12,470 are men, 1,50,18,010 are women, and 282 are transgender people. The Commission had also given an additional opportunity to enrol names on November 4 and 5. A supplementary list will soon be issued on November 14, including the final changes. 

In all, there are 33,746 polling stations for the 2025 elections. Of these, 28,127 are in the panchayats, 2015 in the corporations and 3,604 in the municipalities. 

The maximum a candidate can spend is: Grama panchayats - ₹25,000; block panchayats and municipalities - ₹75,000; district panchayats and corporations - ₹1.5 lakh. This will not include the expenditure made by the political parties concerned, the SEC said. "Over 10,000 candidates were disqualified for overstepping their expenditure limits in 2020," Shajahan said.

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