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2022 Kathmandu municipal elections
← 2017 13 May 2022 2027 →
162 seats to Kathmandu Metropolitan City Council
82 seats needed for a majority
 
Leader Balendra Shah Keshav Sthapit Sirjana Singh
Party Independent CPN (UML) Nepali Congress+
 
Leader Madan Das Shrestha
Party RPP
Incumbent Mayor

Bidya Sundar Shakya (UML)
CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) {[party4]}



Municipal election for Kathmandu, capital of Nepal was held in 13 May 2022 for the position of Mayor, a deputy Mayor, 32 Ward Chairperson and Ward Members. All positions are for a period of 5 years.[1][2] 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. The electorate for this election will the 159 members chosen direct election.[3]

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.

Candidate

Keshav Sthapit

Keshav Sthapit was elected as Mayor in 1997. After the royal takeover in 2005, he became a monarchist and appointed Mayor by King. After the return of democracy he was appointed as a Commissioner of Kathmandu Valley Development Authority after joining Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) but was removed from the post after only nine months.[4] He was a candidate for Member of Parliament from Kathmandu 6 in 2017 but came in fifth place under the ticket of Federal Socialist Party.[5] He returned to CPN-UML and became a Provincial Minister but was sacked by Chief Minister Dormani Poudel after misbehaving during cabinet meetings.[6] There has been multiple allegations of sexual assault against Sthapit.[7][8]

Numerous leaders within the party including former minister Ram Bir Manandhar yelled that the decision of giving ticket to Sthapit was against people's will while the CPN (UML) should be ready to face worst condition no sooner. He even spoke in support of Nepali Congress candidate Sirjana Singh.[9]

Sirjana Singh

Sirjana Singh is the candidate from Nepali Congress. Singh is supported by CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), People's Socialist Party and Rastriya Janamorcha. In relation, she is daughter in law of Ganesh Man Singh and wife of former Deputy Prime Minister Prakash Man Singh.

Balendra Shah

We know Er. Balenra Shah in multiple ways. Some know him by his profession as an Engineer. Many of them are familiar with him by his singing career “Hip-hop”. Now, he has been popuar by his candidacy for the position of mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City. He lives in Sinamangal and is of Teli caste from Terai descent.

Er. Balendra is best known for his freestyle in Battle raps (Raw-Barz). He is the winner of the Second Season of Raw Barz ( A Nepali Rap Battle League).

He got into highlight after winning a battle against Litl Grizl with 13 Rebuttals and multi-syllable rhymes in a f

Candidate list

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Party Mayor candidate Notes Deputy Mayor candidate Notes
Nepali Congress Sirjana Singh Former Chairperson of Nepal Woman Association[10] Supporting CPN (Unified Socialist) candidate
Independent Balendra Shah Rapper, civil engineer and structural engineer[11]
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Keshav Sthapit Former Mayor of Kathmandu and Member of Provincial Assembly and Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development for Bagmati Province[5] Sunita Dangol Former Miss Newa and Newar heritage conversation activist[12]
CPN (Unified Socialist) Supporting Nepali Congress candidate Rameshwar Shrestha
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Madan Das Shrestha Actor[13] Binita Magaiya[13]
Bibeksheel Sajha Party Samikshya Baskota Advocate and CEO of Baskota Group.[14] Kirti Tuladhar Former Chairperson of JCI Nepal[14]
Independent Suman Sayami Social Activist Bidya Shrestha Maharjan Social Activist & Teacher
Independent Sushil Thapa Health Technology Assessment Analyst[15]

Opinion polls

Date Pollster Sample size Shah Sthapit Singh Shrestha Sayami Baskota Undecided Lead
Ind UML Congress RPP Ind BSP
10 May 2022 Setopati[16] 530 26.2% 24% 19.2% 7.4% 4.9% 3.8% 14.5% 2.2%

Exit polls

Date Pollster Sample size (Revealed) Shah Singh Sthapit Sayami Shrestha Baskota Unrevealed Lead
Ind Congress UML Ind RPP BSP
13 May 2022 Setopati[17] 1350 (66%) 42% 25% 26% 4% 2.14% 0.518% 33% 16%

Results

Mayoral election

Summary of Kathmandu mayoral election, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
Independent Balen Shah 20026
CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Keshav Sthapit 10638
Nepali Congress Sirjana Singh 9556
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Madan Das Shrestha 1583
Independent Suman Sayami 1032
Bibeksheel Sajha Party Samikshya Baskota 167
Independent Sushil Thapa 70
Invalid/blank votes
Total 1,91,186 100
Registered voters/turnout 3,00,242 63.68
Summary of Kathmandu deputy-mayoral election, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Sunita Dangol 19956
CPN (Unified Socialist) Rameshwar Shrestha 6316
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Binita Magaiya 3923
Independent Benji Singh Maharjan 1898
Independent Bidhya Shrestha Maharjan 1262
Bibeksheel Sajha Party Kirti Tuladhar 699
Invalid/blank votes
Total 1,91,186 100
Registered voters/turnout 3,00,242 63.68

Ward results

Summary of Partywise Ward chairperson and Ward member seats won, 2022
Party Chairperson Members
CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) 4 11
Nepali Congress 6 13
CPN (Maoist Centre) 0 0
CPN (Unified Socialist) 0 0
Rastriya Prajatantra Party 0 0
Total 32 126
Ward wise electoral details
No. Ward No. Ward Chairman Political Party
1. Ward No. 1 Bharat Lal Shrestha CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
2. Ward No. 2 Rajendra Kumar Shrestha CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
3. Ward No. 3 Prem Thapa CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
4. Ward No. 4 Dinesh Maharjan CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
5. Ward No. 5 Birendra Prajapati CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
6. Ward No. 6 Bhuwan Lama Nepali Congress
7. Ward No. 7 Bimal Kumar Hoda Nepali Congress
8. Ward No. 8
9. Ward No. 9
10. Ward No. 10
11. Ward No. 11
12. Ward No. 12
13. Ward No. 13
14. Ward No. 14
15. Ward No. 15
16. Ward No. 16
17. Ward No. 17
18. Ward No. 18
19. Ward No. 19
20. Ward No. 20
21. Ward No. 21
22. Ward No. 22
23. Ward No. 23
24. Ward No. 24
25. Ward No. 25
26. Ward No. 26
27. Ward No. 27
28. Ward No. 28
29. Ward No. 29 Kush Dhakal Nepali Congress
30. Ward No. 30 Dal Bahadur Karki Nepali Congress
31. Ward No. 31
32. Ward No. 32 Navraj Parajuli CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)


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
Ward Chairman
Ward Member 1
Ward Member 2
Female Member
Female Dalit Member
Source: Election Commission

See also

References

  1. ^ "Article 215(6)". Constitution of Nepal. 20 September 2015. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ^ "Nepal Election Commission proposes local level polls in March next year". India News (News Reader). Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  3. ^ यसरी चुनिँदै छन् स्थानीय प्रतिनिधि, कार्यपालिकाभन्दा व्यवस्थापिका ठूलो. Setopati. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  4. ^ "नेपाल कानून पत्रिका". nkp.gov.np. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  5. ^ a b एमालेको काठमाडौं मेयर उम्मेदवार केशव स्थापित को हुन्?. Setopati (in Hindi). Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  6. ^ Republica. "Keshav Sthapit sacked from Cabinet of Province 3". My Republica. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  7. ^ Setopati, शोभा शर्मा. "यौन दुराचारको आरोप लागेका केशव स्थापितलाई 'एमालेको मेयर पुरस्कार'". Setopati (in Hindi). Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  8. ^ "UML's pick of Keshav Sthapit, a #MeToo accused, for Kathmandu mayor raises moral questions - OnlineKhabar English News". 24 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  9. ^ "एमाले सांसद रामवीर मानन्धर नै लागे केशव स्थापित हराउन, कति असर गर्ला ?". एमाले सांसद रामवीर मानन्धर नै लागे केशव स्थापित हराउन, कति असर गर्ला ?. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  10. ^ गठबन्धनबाट काठमाडौंको मेयर उम्मेदवार सिर्जना सिंह. ekantipur.com (in Nepali). Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  11. ^ Republica. "Rapper Balen Shah announces to contest for Mayor of Kathmandu". My Republica. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  12. ^ मेयरको उम्मेदवार घोषणा गरेकी सुनिता अब एमालेबाट उपमेयर, को हुन् उनी? (भिडिओ). Setopati (in Hindi). Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  13. ^ a b "यी हुन् राप्रपाले टुंग्याएका उम्मेदवारहरु". ekantipur.com (in Nepali). Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  14. ^ a b विवेकशील साझाले काठमाडौंको मेयरमा बास्कोटा र उपमेयरमा तुलाधरलाई उठाउने. ekantipur.com (in Nepali). Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  15. ^ सुशील थापा काठमाडौँ मयेर [Sushil Thapa for Mayor of Kathmandu], retrieved 23 April 2022
  16. ^ Setopati, सेतोपाटी टिम. "काठमाडौंको भित्री नेवार बस्तीमा केशव स्थापित, सिर्जना सिंह र बालेन्द्र साहमध्ये को बलियो?". Setopati. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  17. ^ Setopati, सेतोपाटी टिम. "सेतोपाटी प्रक्षेपण: बालेन शाह चुनिने छन् काठमाडौंका मेयर". Setopati. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
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