Kathmandu 2017 Ward Chairman Partywise Result

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for

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, capital of

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was held on May 14, 2017 for the position of

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, a Deputy Mayor, 32 Ward Chairmen and Ward Members. All positions are for a period of 5 years. A secondary election is to be held for municipal executive which will elect 5 women from the elected ward members and 3 members who must be from the Dalit and minority community. The electorate for this election will the 159 members chosen direct election.

Background

Elections were last held in 2006 and since then the city has been without an elected executive. With the passing of a new constitution, a commission was formed to restructure the existing local levels into more powerful and autonomous local bodies. The city limits of Kathmandu remained unchanged during this restructuring but the number of wards was decreased from 35 to 32. Electors in each ward will elect a ward chairman and 4 ward members. Out of 4 ward members, 2 must be female and one of the 2 females must belong to the

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community.

Issues

* Pollution * Transport Infrastructure * Urban Planning & Development * Earthquake Reconstruction

Candidates for Mayoral Election

Bidya Sundar Shakya

Shakya is a former ward chairman and will be supported by

Rastriya Prajatantra Party The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (; ne, राष्ट्रिय प्रजातन्त्र पार्टी, lit=National Democratic Party; , ( ne, राप्रपा)) is a constitutional monarchist and Hindu nationalist politic ...

in exchange for support to the Deputy-mayor candidate Rajaram Shrestha. Shakya is the current secretary of CPN-UML's Kathmandu District Committee. He won the ward chairperson post in then Ward No. 21 in 1992 and 1997 local elections. Remarks to his work ethics, He is believed to be one of the most corrupted politician. He have also been widely criticized for his disregards to health care workers during covid and one of the laziest mayor assigned in the history of Kathmandu. After his term ended, the citizens of Nepal united to chant the change of "Never Again".

Sarbottam Dangol

Sarbottam Dangol Sarbottam Dangol ( Nepali: सर्वोत्तम डंगोल) (Born on 30 August 1955 in Kathmandu, Nepal), politically known as 'Kailash' ( ne, कैलाश) is a prominent Nepalese leader of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) and a former ...

is a former student leader who was detained for two years without charge or trial in 1985, including two months of incommunicado detention. He took part in Constituent Assembly Election, 2008 as a candidate from Kathmandu Constituency no. 8 and became third with 6,573 votes.

Kishor Thapa

Thapa is a former civil servant who retired from the post of Secretary. He is currently standing as an independent candidate but is associated with Sajha Party Nepal founded by former BBC reporter

Rabindra Mishra Rabindra Mishra ( ne, रवीन्द्र मिश्र) is a Nepali philanthropist, ex-journalist, writer, poet, and politician. Currently, Mishra is the Senior Vice-Chairman of Rastriya Prajatantra Party, after having resigned as a gene ...

Ranju Neupane (Ranju Darsana)

Neupane is a central committee member and media coordinator of Bibeksheel Nepali party. She was elected as central member by first general convention of the party in late 2015.

Mayoral Results

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, style="text-align:left;", Bidya Sundar Shakya , 64,913 , 32.91 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Nepali Congress The Nepali Congress ( ne, नेपाली कांग्रेस ; abbr. NC) is the largest social democratic political party in Nepal. As per the results of recent local election, ''Nepali Congress'' stands as the single largest party o ...

, style="text-align:left;", Raju Raj Joshi , 45,269 , 22.95 , - , style="background-color:yellow;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Bibeksheel Nepali Bibeksheel Nepali Dal (विवेकशील नेपाली दल) is a political party in Nepal. The name ''"Bibeksheel"'' translates to "common sense wisdom". When the first Constitutional Assembly was dissolved, it organized a recurrin ...

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Ranju Darshana Ranju Darshana ( Nepali: रन्जु दर्शना) (born as Ranju Neupane on 3 March 1996) is a Nepalese youth activist and politician. She has been active in politics from very young age of seventeen. She became an iconic person after ...

, 23,439 , 11.88 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

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, style="text-align:left;", Kishore Thapa , 18,496 , 9.38 , - , style="background-color:darkred;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) (), abbreviated CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN-Maoist Centre, CPN Maoist Centre, or CPN (MC), is the third largest political party in Nepal. It was founded in 1994 after breaking away from the Communist P ...

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, 7,906 , 4.01 , - , style="background-color:crimson;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Naya Shakti Naya Shakti Party, Nepal (Nepali: नयाँ शक्ति पार्टी, नेपाल, translation: New Force Party, Nepal) was a democratic socialist political party in Nepal formed by former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai on 12 J ...

, style="text-align:left;", Pabitra Bajracharya , 6,050 , 3.07 , - , , , style="text-align:left;" , Others , style="text-align:left;", , 1,213 , 0.62 , - , - !colspan=3 align=left, Invalid/blank votes, , 29,941 , , 15.18 , - !colspan=3 align=left, Total, , 197,227, , 100 , - ! colspan=3 align=left, Registered voters/turnout, , 271,221 , , 72.72 , - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:centre;" , Party ! style="width: 108pt;" , Candidate ! style="width: 40pt;" , Votes ! style="width: 30pt;" , % , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;", Hari Prabha Khadgi , 58,952 , 29.89 , - , style="background-color:gold;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;", Raja Ram Shrestha , 34,854 , 17.67 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;", Nirupama Yadav , 11,533 , 5.85 , - , style="background-color:darkred;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;", Sushila Kumari Poudel , 10,448 , 5.30 , - , style="background-color:crimson;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;", Sabina Aryal (Dawadi) , 3,493 , 1.77 , - , , , style="text-align:left;" , Others , style="text-align:left;", , 1,483 , 0.75 , - , - !colspan=3 align=left, Invalid/blank votes, , 76,464 , , 38.77 , - !colspan=3 align=left, Total, , 197,227, , 100 , - ! colspan=3 align=left, Registered voters/turnout, , 271,221 , , 72.72

Ward Results

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, style="text-align:center;" , 18 , style="text-align:center;" , 74 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 14 , style="text-align:center;" , 50 , - , style="background-color:gold;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:right;" , Total ! 32 ! 125 ''3 candidates (2 from Nepali Congress and 1 from CPN-UML) for Ward Members were elected unopposed under Dalit woman reserved seats. '' ''3 Ward Member seats reserved for Dalit women were left unfilled due to lack of candidates.''

Results by ward

References

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