The Tamil Nadu Election Commissioner P. Seetharaman has announced the schedule for the up-coming local body elections.
The elections will be held in two-phases on October 17th and 19th 2016.
The nominations will begin from 26th September, 2016 and the last date for filing nomination is 3rd October, 2016. The applications will be scrutinised on 4th October and the applicants can withdraw their nominations latest by 6th October, 2016.
Counting of votes will be on October 21st.
And, for the every first time Coimbatore is going to get it's first woman Mayor as the city along with Dindigul, Salem, Tiruppur, Chennai and Thanjavur have been reserved for Woman Mayors.
V. Gopalakrishnan of Tamil Manila Congress was the first Mayor of Coimbatore, followed by T. Malaravan of AIADMK, R. Venkatachalam of Congress, S.M. Velusamy AIADMK and currently P. Rajkumar of AIADMK, who took over after Velusamy's resignation in 2014.