The 2022 Nepalese local elections were held on 13 May, 2022 in 6 metropolitan cities, 11 sub-metropolitan cities, 276 municipalities and 460 rural municipalities. These were the second set of local-level elections to be held since the promulgation of the new constitution in 2015.

Electoral system

Each local body has an elected head, a chair for rural municipalities and a mayor for

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. They also have a deputy head, a deputy chair for rural municipalities and a deputy mayor for

. Local levels are further subdivided into wards which have a ward chairperson and four members out of which two must be female with one of them from the

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community. The Chairperson/Mayor and a Deputy chairperson/Deputy Mayor are chosen by voters of the entire local level while Ward Chairperson and Ward Members are chosen by voters of the concerned ward. A single ballot is used for voting and

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 ...

electoral system is used to select the winner.

Qualification for candidates

According to Part 17 of the Constitution, a person who meets the following criteria is qualified to become a candidate for various elected offices of the local level: * citizen of Nepal, * completed the age of twenty one years, * registered voters of concerned local level, and * not being disqualified by any Federal law,

Survey and opinion poll

Exit poll

Mayor/Chairperson post

Results

Overall Results

By province

Province 1

Madhesh Province

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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 ...

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CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) CPN may refer to: * Calpine Corporation, New York Stock Exchange symbol CPN * Canadian Perinatal Network * ''Carnivorous Plant Newsletter'' * Carpinteria (Amtrak station), California, Amtrak station code CPN * Caspian Airlines (Iran), ICAO airline ...

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People's Socialist Party, Nepal The People's Socialist Party, Nepal ( abbr. PSP-N; ne, जनता समाजवादी पार्टी, नेपाल), also known as Janata Samajbadi Party is the sixth-largest political party in Nepal. Since the 2022 local electio ...

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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 ...

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CPN (Unified Socialist) The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) (), abbreviated as CPN (Unified Socialist) is a political party in Nepal. Former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal is the chairman of the party and former Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal serves as ...

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Janamat Party The Janamat Party ( ne, जनमत पार्टी, lit=Public Opinion Party) is a Nepalese political party. The party stands as a national party in Nepal and is the seventh-largest party since the 2022 Nepalese general election, 2022 genera ...

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Bibeksheel Sajha Party The Bibeksheel Sajha Party ( Nepali: विवेकशील साझा पार्टी) is a political party in Nepal. It was the sixth largest party of Nepal by popular vote after 2017 Nepalese general election. Presently, its the fifth la ...

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Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party The Terai–Madhesh Loktantrik Party ( ne, तराई-मधेस लोकतान्त्रिक पार्टी (तमलोपा)) is a political party in Nepal. Although the party's primary base is still in Terai Madhesh of Madhe ...

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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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Nepal Janata Party , ) is a political party in Nepal. The party registered with the Election Commission of Nepal ahead of the 2008 Constituent Assembly election.

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Bahujan Shakti Party Bahujan Shakti Party is a political party in Nepal led by Vishwendra Paswan. History In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, the party won 1 seat through the Proportional Representation vote.Nepal Sadbhwana Party , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 0 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Independents , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , style="text-align:center;" , 1 , style="text-align:center;" , 19 , style="text-align:center;" , 28 , style="text-align:center;" , 50 , - ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Total ! 136 ! 136 ! 1,271 ! 5,078 !6,621 , - ! colspan="7" , Source: Election Commission of Nepal

Bagmati Province

Gandaki Province

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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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Lumbini Province

Karnali Province

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Nepal Majdoor Kisan 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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Sudurpaschim Province

Major cities

Metropolitan cities

Sub-metropolitan cities

Incidents

The Election Commission of Nepal sought clarification from

chairman

Pushpa Kamal Dahal Pushpa Kamal Dahal ( ne, पुष्पकमल दाहाल; born 11 December 1954), also widely known by his nom de guerre Prachanda (, ; meaning "fierce"), is a Nepalese politician serving as the current Prime Minister of Nepal. He pre ...

and the wife of prime minister

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for violating the code of conduct during their election rally. The chairman of the Muslim Commission Samim Miya Ansari was caught in

Janakpurdham Janakpurdham or Janakpur ( ne, जनकपुर, ) is a sub-metropolitan city in Dhanusha District, Madhesh Province, Nepal. The city is a hub for religious and cultural tourism. A headquarter of Dhanusha district, ''Janakpur'' is also the ...

during the silence period of election campaigning for trying to buy votes for independent candidate Janakiram Sah and Surendra Bhandari, the chair of the Janakpur committee of

was also arrested for trying to buy votes. Ansari later accussed UML leaders Raghubir Mahasheth and

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of framing him. During election day, the commission fined former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai

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15,000 for breaking the code of conduct by

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a picture of his ballot paper. In Vyas muncipality in Tanahun, independent candidate, Deepak Raj Joshi, son of former Nepali Congress leader Govinda Raj Joshi, sustained injuries to the head after being beaten up by cadres of

. After clashes broke out between cadres of People's Socialist Party,

and

in Yamunamai Rural Municipality in Rautahat, a former police constable ran away with the ballot box in the ensuing chaos and the voting process was suspended. He was later arrested. According to the National Human Rights Commission voting was suspended in different parts of the country due to clashes between supporters of different political parties. The Election Commission of Nepal reported that voting was suspended in 79 polling centres on May 13. After accusations of

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in Budhiganga Rural Municipality in

Bajura Bajura District ( ne, बाजुरा जिल्ला ), a part of Sudurpashchim Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Martadi (today part of Badimalika municipality) as its district headquarter ...

demanded that a re-election be held. The Election Commision later agreed with the demands and a re-election will be held at a later date.

Notes

References

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