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Municipal election for Nepalgunj took place on 13 May 2022, with all 117 positions up for election across 23 wards.[1][2] The electorate elected a mayor, a deputy mayor, 23 ward chairs and 92 ward members. An indirect election will also be held to elect five female members and an additional three female members from the Dalit and minority community to the municipal executive.[3][4]
Prashant Bista from Nepali Congress was elected as the mayor of the sub metropolitan city.[5]
Nepalgunj was established as a municipality in 1969. The sub-metropolitan city was created in 2014 by merging neighboring village development committees into Nepalgunj municipality.[6] Electors in each ward elect a ward chair and four ward members, out of which two must be female and one of the two must belong to the Dalit community.[7]
In the previous election previous mayor of the municipality Dhawal Shamsher Rana from Rastriya Prajatantra Party was elected as the first mayor of the sub-metropolitan city.[8] He did not contest for re-election and instead announced his intention to run for the House of Representatives.[9]
Party | Mayor candidate | |
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Nepali Congress | Prashant Bista | |
Rastriya Prajatantra Party | ||
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Nepali Congress | Prashant Bista | 23,460 | 52.2% | +31.3% | |
CPN (UML) | Pashupati Dayal Mishra | 11,675 | 26.0% | +9.4% | |
RPP | Nanda Lal Vaishya | 7,598 | 16.9% | -13.0% | |
Others | 2,191 | 4.9% | |||
Total votes | 44,924 | 100.0% | |||
Nepali Congress gain from RPP | Swing | +22.15% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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PSP-N | Kamaruddin Rae | 17,940 | 44.1% | +31.1% | |
CPN (UML) | Shanti Devi Dhakal | 10,925 | 26.9% | +8.1% | |
RPP | Bindu Charti Magar | 10,135 | 24.9% | +3.3% | |
Others | 1,673 | 4.1% | |||
Total votes | 40,673 | 100.0% | |||
PSP-N gain from Nepali Congress | Swing | +28.55% |
Party | Chairman | Members | |
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Nepali Congress | 5 | 36 | |
CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) | 5 | 20 | |
People's Socialist Party, Nepal | 6 | 18 | |
Rastriya Prajatantra Party | 3 | 11 | |
CPN (Maoist Centre) | 4 | 7 | |
Total | 23 | 92 |
Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
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Open Member |
Party | Mayor | Deputy Mayor | Ward Chairman | Ward Members | Total seats | Remarks | |
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Nepali Congress | 1 | 5 | 36 | 41 | Largest party | ||
Communist Party of Nepal (UML) | 5 | 20 | 25 | ||||
People's Socialist Party, Nepal | 1 | 6 | 18 | 25 | |||
Rastriya Prajatantra Party | 3 | 11 | 14 | ||||
CPN (Maoist Centre) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | |||
Total | 1 | 1 | 23 | 92 | 117 | 59 for Majority |