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2022 Pokhara municipal elections
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Municipal election for Pokhara, is expected to be held in May 2022 for the position of Mayor, a Deputy Mayor, Ward Chairmen and Ward Members. All positions are for a period of 5 years.^[3]^[4] 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.^[5]

Background

Elections were last held in 2017. 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 Dalit community.

Mayor and deputy mayor candidates

Post		Name
Mayor	CPN (Unified Socialist)	Dhanraj Acharya
	CPN (UML)	Krishna Bahadur Thapa

Deputy mayor	Nepali Congress	Kopila Ranabhat
	CPN (UML)	Manju Devi Gurung

Surveys and opinion polls

Date	News agency	Sample size	Dhan Raj Acharya	Undecided	Krishna Bahadur Thapa	Shankar Kharal	Result
9 May 2022	Setopati^[6]	150	56	43	38	9	Hung
9 May 2022	Setopati^[6]	150	37%	29%	25%	6%	Hung

Mayoral results

Summary of Pokhara mayoral election, 2022
Party		%
	Nepali Congress (Independent)
	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)
	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
	Others
Invalid/blank votes
Total		100
Registered voters/turnout

Summary of Pokhara deputy-mayoral election, 2022
Party		%
	Nepali Congress
	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
	Others
Invalid/blank votes
Total		100
Registered voters/turnout

Ward results

Summary of Partywise Ward chairman and Ward member seats won, 2022
Party		Chairman	Members
	Nepali Congress
	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)
	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
Total

References

^ "Local election on May 13". February 7, 2022. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
^ "पोखरा महानगरपालिकामा कांग्रेसका बागी उम्मेदवारले गरे मनाेनयन दर्ता".
^ "Article 215(6)". Constitution of Nepal. September 20, 2015. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
^ "Nepal Election Commission proposes local level polls in March next year". India News (News Reader). Retrieved 2021-11-30.
^ "यसरी चुनिँदै छन् स्थानीय प्रतिनिधि, कार्यपालिकाभन्दा व्यवस्थापिका ठूलो". Setopati. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
^ Setopati, Manoj Satyal ::. "Dhan Raj Acharya of Unified Socialist slightly ahead of UML's Krishna Thapa in Pokhara". Setopati. Retrieved 2022-05-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

[1] "Local election on May 13". February 7, 2022. Retrieved February 10, 2022.

[2] "पोखरा महानगरपालिकामा कांग्रेसका बागी उम्मेदवारले गरे मनाेनयन दर्ता".

[3] "Article 215(6)". Constitution of Nepal. September 20, 2015. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)

[4] "Nepal Election Commission proposes local level polls in March next year". India News (News Reader). Retrieved 2021-11-30.

[5] "यसरी चुनिँदै छन् स्थानीय प्रतिनिधि, कार्यपालिकाभन्दा व्यवस्थापिका ठूलो". Setopati. Retrieved 2 June 2017.

[6] Setopati, Manoj Satyal ::. "Dhan Raj Acharya of Unified Socialist slightly ahead of UML's Krishna Thapa in Pokhara". Setopati. Retrieved 2022-05-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

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