Polling in majority of LS seats over, yet no discernible trend visible

Political parties are busy conducting their own assessments or seeking reports from exit poll agencies as also the betting market about the possible outcome

State without local bodies

It was reported that the 15th Finance Commission might recommend giving more financial freedom and powers to panchayats and urban local bodies, but in Tamil Nadu there are no local bodies because elections to them have not been held for the last 30 months. The elections were supposed to have taken place in October 2016, but were stopped by the Madras High Court after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam questioned the manner in which the process was carried out. Immediately after that, the state government began work on delimitation of wards based on the 2011 Census.