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2022 Rajbiraj municipal elections
← 2017 13 May 2022[1] 2027 →
85 seats to Rajbiraj Municipal City Council
43 seats needed for a majority
 
Leader Irshad Ansari Bhimraj Yadav Shambhu Prasad Yadav
Party Nepali Congress PSP-N Maoist Centre
 
Leader Dipendra Chaudhary Mamata Jha Nathuni Das
Party Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal Janamat Unified Socialist
Wards of the Rajbiraj Municipal election 2022
Incumbent Mayor

Shambhu Prasad Yadav (CPN (Maoist Centre))
CPN (Maoist Centre)



The Municipal election for Rajbiraj, is going to be held in 13 May 2022 for the position of mayor, a deputy mayor, 16 ward chairperson and ward members. All positions are for a period of 5 years.[2] A secondary election is to be held for the municipal executives which will elect 5 women from the elected ward members and 3 members who must be from the Dalit and minority community. The electorate for this election will be the 82 members chosen by direct election.[3]

Background

The last local level elections were held in 2017.[4] With the passing of a new constitution in 2015, a commission was formed to restructure the existing local levels into more powerful and autonomous local bodies. The city limits of Rajbiraj were changed during this restructuring and the number of wards was increased from 10 to 16. Electors in each ward will elect a ward chairperson 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.[5]

Voters

Election Commission of Nepal is the responsible body to update and publish the final electoral rolls before the election in Nepal.[6] The election commission had published the final voter list for the local level election on March 27. There is a total of 39,692 registered voters who can cast their vote in Rajbiraj municipal election.[7][8] The Ward wise electoral details for the 2022 Rajbiraj municipal election:[9]

Ward wise electoral details
No. Ward No. Men Women Third gender Total
1. Ward No. 1 2017 1731 2 3750
2. Ward No. 2 1309 1213 0 2522
3. Ward No. 3 819 691 0 1510
4. Ward No. 4 1164 988 0 2152
5. Ward No. 5 932 858 0 1790
6. Ward No. 6 1966 1767 0 3733
7. Ward No. 7 1736 1560 0 3296
8. Ward No. 8 1084 1087 0 2171
9. Ward No. 9 2118 1746 0 3864
10. Ward No. 10 1494 1306 0 2800
11. Ward No. 11 1239 1035 0 2274
12. Ward No. 12 1153 934 0 2087
13. Ward No. 13 1285 1130 0 2415
14. Ward No. 14 829 727 0 1556
15. Ward No. 15 1071 930 0 2001
16. Ward No. 16 854 817 0 1771
Male 21170
Female 18520
Other 2
Total Voters 39692

Election schedule

On March 24, Election commission of Nepal announced the election schedule for the local election.

S.N. Activities Date
1 Candidate nomination registration 2022 April 24-25
2 Publication of nominated candidate list 2022 April 25
3 Complaining against a candidate 2022 April 26
4 Scrutiny of nomination 2022 April 27-28
5 Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination 2022 April 28
6 Publication of final candidate list 2022 April 29
7 Provide election symbols to candidates 2022 April 30
8 Election day 2022 May 13
Date of Counting of Votes Immediately after completion of election
Source: Election Commission of Nepal

Candidate

Mayor Candidates

Shambhu Prasad Yadav

Shambhu Prasad Yadav, the Mayor of Rajbiraj Municipilaty was elected in 2017.[10] He was elected as a Mayor in local level elections from Rastriya Janata Party Nepal.[11]. After the merger of political parties, he joined People's Socialist Party, Nepal in 2020. He is now contesting for the Mayor's candidacy from Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) after resigning from his mayoral post.[12]

Bhimraj Yadav

Bhimraj Yadav is the candidate from People's Socialist Party, Nepal. He was previously contested for the Mayor candidacy in 2017 local level election from Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal and lost by 15 votes.[13]He was previously associated with Federation Of Contractors' Associations, Saptari.

Candidate list (Mayor and Deputy Mayor)[14]

Key Description
♔ denotes former Mayor
♕ denotes former Deputy Mayor
No. Party Flag Symbol Mayor candidate Photo Deputy Mayor candidate Photo
1. CPN-MC Shambhu Prasad Yadav Pramila Kumari Sah
2. PSP-N Bhimraj Yadav Ishrat Praveen
3. Nepali Congress Irshad Ansari Sushila Yadav
4. LSP-N Dipendra Chaudhary Sadhana Jha
5. Janamat Party Mamata Jha Sadhana Das
6. CPN-US Nathuni Das Mamata Chaudhary
7. CPN-UML Anil Jha Sashita Kumari Dev
8. Rastriya Prajatantra Party Umesh Prasad Sah Sarita Jha
9. Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party Bhupendra Yadav Bimala Devi Chaudhary

Candidate list (Ward Chairperson)[14]

Key Description
♔ denotes former Ward Chairperson
Party Symbol Ward Number (1-8)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
CPN-MC Gangaram Yadav Chandan Kumar Yadav Md. Irshad Ahmad Akhtar Ali Miya Sanjay Kumar Das Prem Kumar Yadav Subhash Chandra Yadav Jay Narayan Mandal
PSP-N Chandra Shekhar Chaudhary Arun Kumar Yadav Anil Kumar Das Dinesh Kumar Sah Bandhu Lal Das Shiv Kumar Sah Santosh Prasad Sah Dev Narayan Gurmaita
Nepali Congress Anand Kumar Jha Shambhu Lal Dev Ranjit Chaudhary Prabhat Kumar Lalan Samir Kumar Jha Raj Kumar Chaudhary Ghanshyam Sah Kaushal Kumar Das
LSP-N Satish Kumar Jha Lalit Narayan Jha Furqan Ahmed Khan Ramasish Prasad Sah Lalan Mishra Sashi Kumar Chaudhary Bijay Kumar Dev Digambar Lal Sah
Janamat Party Sandip Sharma Sujit Kumar Mandal - Roshan Ansari Roshan Bajpayee Prakash Kumar Chaudhary Manju Devi Sah -
CPN-US Rajesh Kumar Chaudhary Shivnath Das - Dambar Narayan Das Ramchandra Sah Rajesh Kumar Chaudhary Akhilesh Kumar Dev Satish Kumar Dutta
CPN-UML Kalim Miya Dipendra Kumar Yadav Md. Mukhtar Mukhtar Aalam Sanjiv Das Dipak Kumar Das Tribhuvan Yadav Sunil Kumar Pariyar
Independent Sudarshan Prasad Singh Mangi Lal Nai
Party Symbol Ward Number (9-16)
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
CPN-MC Shambhu Prasad Yadav Gangaram Khang Sanjay Kumar Yadav Gopi Krishna Yadav Yogendra Yadav Upendra Sada Santosh Kumar Yadav Shailendra Kumar Dev
PSP-N Jawahar Yadav Sushil Kumar Das Udit Narayan Yadav Sanjiv Kumar Yadav Bishnudev Yadav Shobha Lal Mandal Ram Prasad Yadav Ram Akbal Yadav
Nepali Congress Pradip Kumar Yadav Rundi Yadav Amarnath Yadav Harihar Yadav Suryanarayan Prasad Yadav Satya Narayan Mandal Umesh Prasad Yadav Narendra Prasad Dev
LSP-N Sitaram Yadav Bishnu Kumar Rohita Mahesh Prasad Sah Anil Kumar Yadav Jag Narayan Yadav Magain Mandal Om Narayan Sah Buchai Das
Janamat Party Tarakant Yadav Mahendra Yadav Sachhidanand Yadav Pramod Kumar Rajak Rajendra Prasad Yadav Hare Krishna Mandal Ram Babu Yadav Gajendra Prasad Yadav
CPN-US Chhote Lal Yadav - Rajendra Prasad Yadav Ramchandra Yadav Sukdev Yadav - Dalluram Mochi Mahendra Prasad Dev
CPN-UML Md. Jamir Ali Bhupendra Prasad Yadav Upendra Prasad Yadav Satya Narayan Yadav Bhupendra Yadav Jagadish Mandal Balram Yadav Shivram Das

Results

Mayoral election

Summary of Rajbiraj mayoral election, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
CPN (Maoist Centre) Shambhu Prasad Yadav
Janata Samajwadi Party Bhimraj Yadav
Nepali Congress Irshad Ansari
Loktantrik Samajwadi Party Dipendra Chaudhary
Janamat Party Mamata Jha
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) Nathuni Das
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Anil Jha
Invalid/blank votes
Total 100
Registered voters/turnout
Summary of Rajbiraj deputy-mayoral election, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
CPN (Maoist Centre) Pramila Kumari Sah
Janata Samajwadi Party Ishrat Praveen
Nepali Congress Sushila Yadav
Loktantrik Samajwadi Party Sadhana Jha
Janamat Party Sadhana Das
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) Mamata Chaudhary
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
Invalid/blank votes
Total 100
Registered voters/turnout


Ward results

See also

References

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