The 2017 Nepalese local elections were held in

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

in three phases on 14 May, 28 June and 18 September in 6 metropolitan cities, 11 sub-metropolitan cities, 276 municipalities and 460 rural municipalities. It was the first local level election to be held since the promulgation of the 2015 constitution.

Background

Local elections were held in 53 municipalities in February 2006 under regime of King Gyanendra but were boycotted by the major political parties and saw low voter turnout. Prior to 2006, the previous elections was held in 1997 with a mandate of five years. Elections were supposed to be held on 2002 but were delayed due to the then ongoing

Nepal Civil War The Nepalese Civil War was a protracted armed conflict that took place in the former Kingdom of Nepal from 1996 to 2006. It saw fighting between the Nepalese royal government and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) throughout the country. ...

. With the promulgation of the new constitution in 2015, a three-tier governance system was introduced, with national, provincial and local levels of governance. A Local Body Restructuring Commission was established as required by the constitution under the chairmanship of Balananda Paudel. The commission proposed 719 local structures which was revised to 753 by the government. The new local levels were formed by changing the existing cities and village development council and came into existence on 10 March 2017.

Electoral system

Local levels will have a Chairperson/Mayor and a Deputy chairperson/mayor. Local levels are further subdivided into wards which will have a ward chairperson and 4 members. Out of the 4 members 2 must be female. All terms are for a total of 5 years. The elections are direct in nature and with the one getting the most ballots is declared the winner.

Results

Overall Results

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Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal The Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal ( ne, संघीय समाजवादी फोरम, नेपाल; abbreviated FSFN) was a democratic socialist political party in Nepal. The party was formed on 15 June 2015 from the merger of the Ma ...

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Nepal Loktantrik Forum The Nepal Loktantrik Forum (translation: ''Nepal Democratic Forum'') was a political party in Nepal. The party was established on April 5, 2017, after merging with the Madheshi Jana Adhikar Forum (Democratic), the Rastriya Janamukti Party (Democ ...

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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 ...

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Rastriya Janamorcha Rastriya Janamorcha ( ne, राष्ट्रिय जनमोर्चा, lit=National People's Front) is a political party in Nepal. It was originally founded in 1995 as the legal front of Communist Party of Nepal (Masal). Former Deputy P ...

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Naya Shakti Party, Nepal 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 ...

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Nepali Janata Dal Nepali Janata Dal is a political party in Nepal. The party was established in 1995 as the United People's Party. The party identifies itself as progressive, nationalist and socialist. Hari Charan Shah is the party chairman, Kabiraj Timilsina the ...

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Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party The Nepal Workers Peasants Party (NWPP), also known as the Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party and the Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party ( ne, नेपाल मजदुर किसान पार्टी; abbr. , ), is a communist political party ...

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Rastriya Janamukti Party Rastriya Janamukti Partry ( ne, राष्ट्रिय जनमुक्ति पार्टी; translation Translation is the communication of the Meaning (linguistic), meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language ...

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Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Democratic) Rastriya Prajantantra Party (Samyukta) ( ne, राष्ट्रिय प्रजातन्त्र पार्टी (संयुक्त)), literally the National Democratic Party (United) and abbreviated RPP (U), was a political party ...

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Nepal Pariwar Dal Nepal Pariwar Dal (translation: ''Nepal Family Party'') is a Nepalese political party supporting family values. History In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, the party won one seat through the Proportional Representation vote. The party sele ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Total ! 753 ! 753 ! 6,742 ! 26,790

Results by province

Province No. 1

, - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Parties ! Mayor/Head ! Deputy Mayor/Head ! Ward Chair ! Ward Member , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) , style="text-align:center;" , 69 , style="text-align:center;" , 85 , style="text-align:center;" , 554 , style="text-align:center;" , 2511 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Nepali Congress , style="text-align:center;" , 51 , style="text-align:center;" , 38 , style="text-align:center;" , 418 , style="text-align:center;" , 1492 , - , style="background-color:darkred;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) , style="text-align:center;" , 9 , style="text-align:center;" , 7 , style="text-align:center;" , 114 , style="text-align:center;" , 388 , - , style="background-color:lightgreen;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 3 , style="text-align:center;" , 4 , style="text-align:center;" , 20 , style="text-align:center;" , 80 , - , bgcolor=#FFD700 , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 3 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 9 , style="text-align:center;" , 26 , - , style="background-color:#FFC0CB;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Federal Socialist Forum Nepal The Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal ( ne, संघीय समाजवादी फोरम, नेपाल; abbreviated FSFN) was a democratic socialist political party in Nepal. The party was formed on 15 June 2015 from the merger of the Ma ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 28 , style="text-align:center;" , 106 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Independents , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 8 , style="text-align:center;" , 10 , - , style="background-color:crimson;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , - , bgcolor=#FFFFFF, , style="text-align:left;" , Federal Democratic National Forum , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 6 , - , style="background-color:#1E90FF;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 4 , - , bgcolor=#B03020, , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Total ! 137 ! 137 ! 1,156 ! 4,513 , - ! colspan="6" , Source
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Province No. 2

, style="text-align:center;" , 26 , style="text-align:center;" , 25 , style="text-align:center;" , 191 , style="text-align:center;" , 815 , - , bgcolor="FFb300" , , style="text-align:left;" , Rastriya Janata Party Nepal , style="text-align:center;" , 25 , style="text-align:center;" , 30 , style="text-align:center;" , 195 , style="text-align:center;" , 862 , - , style="background-color:darkred;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) , style="text-align:center;" , 21 , style="text-align:center;" , 24 , style="text-align:center;" , 230 , style="text-align:center;" , 853 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) , style="text-align:center;" , 18 , style="text-align:center;" , 19 , style="text-align:center;" , 230 , style="text-align:center;" , 983 , - , style="background-color:lightgreen;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 3 , style="text-align:center;" , 3 , style="text-align:center;" , 32 , style="text-align:center;" , 128 , - , bgcolor=#0000FF, , style="text-align:left;" ,

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, style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 5 , style="text-align:center;" , 16 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Independents , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 32 , style="text-align:center;" , 26 , - , bgcolor=#FFD700 , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 6 , style="text-align:center;" , 22 , - , style="background-color:#1E90FF;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 6 , - , bgcolor=#4682B4 , , style="text-align:left;" , Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Democratic) , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 5 , - , style="background-color:darkblue;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Bahujan Shakti Party , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 4 , - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Total ! 136 ! 136 ! 1,271 ! 5,075 , - ! colspan="6" , Source
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Province No. 3

, - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Parties ! Mayor/Head ! Deputy Mayor/Head ! Ward Chair ! Ward Member , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) , style="text-align:center;" , 64 , style="text-align:center;" , 69 , style="text-align:center;" , 537 , style="text-align:center;" , 2,333 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Nepali Congress , style="text-align:center;" , 35 , style="text-align:center;" , 32 , style="text-align:center;" , 367 , style="text-align:center;" , 1,324 , - , style="background-color:darkred;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) , style="text-align:center;" , 16 , style="text-align:center;" , 17 , style="text-align:center;" , 176 , style="text-align:center;" , 660 , - , bgcolor=#FFD700 , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 15 , style="text-align:center;" , 43 , - , bgcolor=#FF8080, , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 12 , style="text-align:center;" , 40 , - , style="background-color:crimson;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 5 , style="text-align:center;" , 24 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Independents , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 7 , style="text-align:center;" , 6 , - , style="background-color:lightgreen;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 3 , - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Total ! 119 ! 119 ! 1,121 ! 4,433 , - ! colspan="6" , Source
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Province No. 4

, - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Parties ! Mayor/Head ! Deputy Mayor/Head ! Ward Chair ! Ward Member , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Nepali Congress , style="text-align:center;" , 44 , style="text-align:center;" , 37 , style="text-align:center;" , 342 , style="text-align:center;" , 1,351 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) , style="text-align:center;" , 34 , style="text-align:center;" , 36 , style="text-align:center;" , 316 , style="text-align:center;" , 1,261 , - , style="background-color:darkred;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) , style="text-align:center;" , 5 , style="text-align:center;" , 7 , style="text-align:center;" , 69 , style="text-align:center;" , 267 , - , bgcolor=#9ACD32, , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 15 , style="text-align:center;" , 56 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Independents , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 10 , style="text-align:center;" , 32 , - , bgcolor=#FFD700 , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 12 , - , style="background-color:crimson;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 5 , style="text-align:center;" , 24 , - , style="background-color:#1E90FF;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Total ! 85 ! 85 ! 759 ! 3,005 , - ! colspan="6" , Source
Election Commission of Nepal

Province No. 5

, - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Parties ! Mayor/Head ! Deputy Mayor/Head ! Ward Chair ! Ward Member , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) , style="text-align:center;" , 43 , style="text-align:center;" , 47 , style="text-align:center;" , 355 , style="text-align:center;" , 1,498 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Nepali Congress , style="text-align:center;" , 33 , style="text-align:center;" , 31 , style="text-align:center;" , 317 , style="text-align:center;" , 1,223 , - , style="background-color:darkred;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) , style="text-align:center;" , 19 , style="text-align:center;" , 22 , style="text-align:center;" , 181 , style="text-align:center;" , 692 , - , bgcolor=#FF8080, , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 6 , style="text-align:center;" , 5 , style="text-align:center;" , 43 , style="text-align:center;" , 190 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Independents , style="text-align:center;" , 3 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 21 , style="text-align:center;" , 44 , - , bgcolor=#9ACD32, , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 18 , style="text-align:center;" , 89 , - , style="background-color:lightgreen;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 19 , style="text-align:center;" , 76 , - , bgcolor=#FFD700 , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 17 , style="text-align:center;" , 65 , - , style="background-color:crimson;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 5 , style="text-align:center;" , 17 , - , style="background-color:darkblue;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Bahujan Shakti Party , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 7 , style="text-align:center;" , 30 , - , style="background-color:#1E90FF;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 5 , - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Total ! 109 ! 109 ! 983 ! 3,929 , - ! colspan="6" , Source
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Province No. 6

, - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Parties ! Mayor/Head ! Deputy Mayor/Head ! Ward Chair ! Ward Member , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) , style="text-align:center;" , 27 , style="text-align:center;" , 31 , style="text-align:center;" , 268 , style="text-align:center;" , 1,074 , - , style="background-color:darkred;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) , style="text-align:center;" , 25 , style="text-align:center;" , 26 , style="text-align:center;" , 219 , style="text-align:center;" , 876 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Nepali Congress , style="text-align:center;" , 25 , style="text-align:center;" , 16 , style="text-align:center;" , 203 , style="text-align:center;" , 776 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Independents , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 4 , style="text-align:center;" , 11 , style="text-align:center;" , 10 , - , bgcolor=#FFD700 , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 7 , style="text-align:center;" , 36 , - , bgcolor=#FF8080, , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 10 , style="text-align:center;" , 35 , - , style="background-color:lightgreen;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

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Province No. 7

, - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Parties ! Mayor/Head ! Deputy Mayor/Head ! Ward Chair ! Ward Member , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) , style="text-align:center;" , 39 , style="text-align:center;" , 44 , style="text-align:center;" , 300 , style="text-align:center;" , 1,249 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Nepali Congress , style="text-align:center;" , 38 , style="text-align:center;" , 34 , style="text-align:center;" , 301 , style="text-align:center;" , 1,192 , - , style="background-color:darkred;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) , style="text-align:center;" , 10 , style="text-align:center;" , 9 , style="text-align:center;" , 113 , style="text-align:center;" , 400 , - , style="background-color:lightgreen;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 15 , style="text-align:center;" , 68 , - , bgcolor=#FFD700 , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 3 , style="text-align:center;" , 10 , - , style="background-color:;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Independents , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 3 , - , style="background-color:crimson;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Total ! 88 ! 88 ! 734 ! 2,924 , - ! colspan="6" , Source
Election Commission of Nepal

Cities

Incidents

The first phase of election was largely peaceful but there were sporadic instances of violence. A CPN-UML activist was killed in Gaurisankar Village Council, Dolakha on the eve of election. Another person was killed in Namobuddha municipality, Kavre on the day of election, the incident is still under investigation. One person died after security personnel opened fire during a clash between the cadres of Nepali Congress and CPN-UML in Melung Rural Municipality of Dolakha district on election day. A candidate from Rastriya Prajantantra Party died in Naraharinath Village Council, Kalikot after police opened fire when cadres of Netra Bikram Chand led CPN tried to capture the ballot boxes. A reelection took place in one ward of Bharatpur after a CPN-Maoist Centre vote count representative tore 90 ballot papers when the count was in progress. In the second phase, a UML cadre died after being hit by a stone in his

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during a clash with Nepali Congress cadres at Chededaha Village council Bajura. A cadre of Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN Maoist died in Dhangadi, Kailali after a bomb carried by him exploded prematurely on June 26.

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