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Revision as of 22:47, 21 May 2022

2022 Pokhara municipal elections

← 2017 13 May 2022[1] 2027 →

167 seats to Pokhara Metropolitan City Council
84 seats needed for a majority
  File:CPN (Unified Socialist) logo.jpg File:New logo CPN (UML).png
Leader Shankar Kharal Dhanraj Acharya
Party RPP Unified Socialist CPN (UML)

Incumbent Mayor

Man Bahadur GC
Outgoing Mayor
CPN (UML)



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.[2][3] 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.[4]

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 Parties Symbol Name
Mayor CPN (Unified Socialist) Dhanraj Acharya
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Shankar Kharal
CPN (UML) Krishna Bahadur Thapa
Deputy mayor Nepali Congress Kopila Ranabhat
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Ranjana Kumari Saini Paudel
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[5] 150 56 43 38 9 Hung
37% 29% 25% 6%

Exit polls

Date Pollster Thapa Acharya Paudel Kharel Others Lead
UML US Ind. RPP
13 May 2022 Facts Nepal[6] 41.7% 37.8% 7.7% 4.5% 8.3% 3.9%

Mayoral results

Summary of Pokhara mayoral election, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
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 Candidate Votes %
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 14 32
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) 0 0
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) 7 10
Total 33 132

Summary of results by ward

Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
Ward Chairman
Ward Member 1
Ward Member 2
Female Member
Female Dalit Member
Source: Election Commission

See also

References

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