Municipal election In many parts of the world, local elections take place to select office-holders in local government, such as mayors and councillors. Elections to positions within a city or town are often known as "municipal elections". Their form and conduct vary ...

for Lalitpur, the third largest city in

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, was held on May 14, 2017 for the post of Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Ward Chairmen and Ward Members. All posts were elected by

First past the post In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...

method; with all having a tenure of 5 years.

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. With the addition of Wards 1 to 13 of Karyabinayak municipality, the city was upgraded from sub-metropolitan to metropolitan city with 29 wards. 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

Dalit Dalit (from sa, दलित, dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming ...

community.

Results

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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 of ...

, style="text-align:left;" , Chiri Babu Maharjan , 24,642 , 27.62 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

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, style="text-align:left;" , Hari Krishna Byanjankar , 24,316 , 27.26 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

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, style="text-align:left;" , Ramesh Maharjan , 13,458 , 15.09 , - , style="background-color:darkred;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

CPN (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 ...

, style="text-align:left;" , Dinesh Maharjan , 10,661 , 11.95 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Others , , 2,037 , 2.28 , - , - style="background:#eee" , colspan=3 align=left, Invalid/blank votes, , 14,100 , , 15.80 , - style="background:#eee" , colspan=3 align=left, Total, , 89,214 , , 100 , - style="background:#eee" , colspan=3 align=left, Registered voters/turnout, , 112,923, , 79.00 , - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Party ! style="width: 108pt;" , Candidate ! style="width: 40pt;" , Votes ! style="width: 30pt;" , % , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , Gita Satyal , 19,819 , 22.22 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , Shova Shakya , 14,240 , 15.96 , - , style="background-color:darkred;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , Hasina Shakya , 12,979 , 14.55 , - , style="background-color:gold;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:left;" , Babu Kaji Pradhan , 10,540 , 11.81 , - , style="background-color:crimson;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Naya Shakti , style="text-align:left;" , Sajani Maharjan , 1,380 , 1.55 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Others , , 860 , 0.96 , - , - style="background:#eee" , colspan=3 align=left, Invalid/blank votes, , 29,396 , , 32.95 , - style="background:#eee" , colspan=3 align=left, Total, , 89,214 , , 100 , - style="background:#eee" , colspan=3 align=left, Registered voters/turnout, , 112,923, , 79.00

Ward Results

, - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Party ! Chairman ! Members , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 14 , style="text-align:center;" , 62 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 10 , style="text-align:center;" , 32 , - , style="background-color:darkred;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 4 , style="text-align:center;" , 10 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , - , style="background-color:crimson;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Naya Shakti , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:right;" , Total ! 29 ! 105 ''4 candidates (3 from CPN-UML and 1 from Naya Shakti) for Ward Members were elected unopposed under Dalit woman reserved seats. 11 ward member seats reserved for Dalit women were left unfilled due to lack of candidates.''

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