<span style="color: black;">In Tamil Nadu, the poll results for rural local bodies in nine new districts will be declared today. The counting of votes will begin from 8 in the morning at 74 centres and results will be declared online. Polling was held in two phases on 6th and 9th of this month. In the elections, the BJP and the PMK who were earlier with the AIADMK fought it alone while DMK allies were intact.</span><br />'' <span style="color: black;"><br />'' AIR correspondent reports that the rural local body polls were held for 27 thousand and 3 posts in two phases. The first phase recorded 77.44 percent polling while the second phase registered 78.5 percent polling. Close to 80 thousand candidates are in the fray.<br />''<br />''Election to a village panchayat president post was stalled by a court and polls for a panchayat union ward member, two village panchayat presidents and 21 village panchayat ward members were not held as none filed nominations or all the candidates, who filed nominations withdrew them.</span>