2017 Nepalese local elections

2017 Nepalese local elections

14 May 2017 28 June 2017 18 September 2017
6 Metropolitan Cities 11 Sub-Metropolitan Cities 276 Municipalities 460 Rural Municipalities
Turnout	73.81% (first round) 73.38% (second round) 77% (third round)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Khadga Prasad Oli Sher Bahadur Deuba Pushpa Kamal Dahal Party UML Congress Maoist Centre Leader since July 2014 7 March 2016 May 1999 Seats 14,099 11,456 5,441   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Upendra Yadav Mahantha Thakur Bijay Kumar Gachhadar Party FSFN RJPN NLF Leader since 15 June 2015 21 April 2017 5 April 2017 Seats 1,439 1,111 461   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Kamal Thapa Chitra Bahadur KC Baburam Bhattarai Party RPP Janamorcha Naya Shakti Leader since 20 February 2017 26 May 2006 June 2016 Seats 285 186 110

The 2017 Nepalese local elections were held in Nepal in three phases on 14 May, 28 June and 18 September in 6 metropolitan cities, 11 sub-metropolitan cities, 276 municipalities and 460 rural municipalities. It was the first local level election to be held since the promulgation of the 2015 constitution.

Background

Local elections were held in 53 municipalities in February 2006 under regime of King Gyanendra but were boycotted by the major political parties and saw low voter turnout. Prior to 2006, the previous elections was held in 1997 with a mandate of five years. Elections were supposed to be held on 2002 but were delayed due to the then ongoing Nepal Civil War.

With the promulgation of the new constitution in 2015, a three-tier governance system was introduced, with national, provincial and local levels of governance. A Local Body Restructuring Commission was established as required by the constitution under the chairmanship of Balananda Paudel. The commission proposed 719 local structures which was revised to 753 by the government. The new local levels were formed by changing the existing cities and village development council and came into existence on 10 March 2017.

Electoral system

Local levels will have a Chairperson/Mayor and a Deputy chairperson/mayor. Local levels are further subdivided into wards which will have a ward chairperson and 4 members. Out of the 4 members 2 must be female. All terms are for a total of 5 years. The elections are direct in nature and with the one getting the most ballots is declared the winner.

Local Level Type	Choice
Metropolitan City	One Mayor, One Deputy Mayor, One Ward Chairman, 4 Ward members
Sub Metropolitan City	One Mayor, One Deputy Mayor, One Ward Chairman, 4 Ward members
Municipality	One Mayor, One Deputy Mayor, One Ward Chairman, 4 Ward members
Rural Municipality	One Head, One Deputy Head, One Ward Chairman, 4 Ward members

Results

Overall Results

Parties		Mayor/Chairman	Deputy Mayor/Chairman	Ward Chairman	Ward Member
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color;" |	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	294	331	2,560	10,912
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color;" |	Nepali Congress	266	223	2,286	8,679
	Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)	106	111	1,102	4,123
	Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal	34	32	262	1,111
	Rastriya Janata Party Nepal	25	30	195	862
	Nepal Loktantrik Forum	9	8	88	356
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independents	6	5	91	131
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	5	7	59	214
	Rastriya Janamorcha	3	4	33	146
	Naya Shakti Party, Nepal	2	1	22	91
	Nepali Janata Dal	2	0	7	30
	Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party	1	1	22	75
	Bahujan Shakti Party	0	0	8	34
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	0	0	3	17
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Democratic)	0	0	2	5
	Federal Democratic National Forum	0	0	1	6
	Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist)	0	0	1	3
	Nepal Pariwar Dal	0	0	0	1
Total		753	753	6,742	26,790

Results by province

Province No. 1

Parties		Mayor/Head	Deputy Mayor/Head	Ward Chair	Ward Member
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color;" |	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	69	85	554	2511
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color;" |	Nepali Congress	51	38	418	1492
	Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)	9	7	114	376
	Nepal Loktantrik Forum	3	4	20	80
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	3	1	9	26
	Federal Socialist Forum Nepal	2	2	28	106
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independents	0	0	8	10
	Naya Shakti Party, Nepal	0	0	2	2
	Federal Democratic National Forum	0	0	1	6
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	0	0	1	4
	Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist)	0	0	1	0
Total		137	137	1,156	4,513
Source: Election Commission of Nepal

Province No. 2

Parties		Mayor/Head	Deputy Mayor/Head	Ward Chair	Ward Member
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color;" |	Nepali Congress	40	35	338	1111
	Federal Socialist Forum Nepal	26	25	191	815
	Rastriya Janata Party Nepal	25	30	195	862
	Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)	21	24	230	853
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color;" |	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	18	19	230	983
	Nepal Loktantrik Forum	3	3	32	128
	Nepali Janata Dal	2	0	7	30
	Naya Shakti Party, Nepal	1	0	5	16
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independents	0	0	32	26
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	0	0	6	22
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	0	0	2	6
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Democratic)	0	0	2	5
	Bahujan Shakti Party	0	0	1	4
Total		136	136	1,271	5,075
Source: Election Commission of Nepal

Province No. 3

Parties		Mayor/Head	Deputy Mayor/Head	Ward Chair	Ward Member
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color;" |	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	64	69	537	2,333
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color;" |	Nepali Congress	35	32	367	1,324
	Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)	16	17	176	660
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	1	1	15	43
	Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party	1	1	12	40
	Naya Shakti Party, Nepal	1	0	5	24
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independents	0	0	7	6
	Nepal Loktantrik Forum	0	0	2	3
Total		119	119	1,121	4,433
Source: Election Commission of Nepal

Province No. 4

Parties		Mayor/Head	Deputy Mayor/Head	Ward Chair	Ward Member
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color;" |	Nepali Congress	44	37	342	1,351
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color;" |	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	34	36	316	1,261
	Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)	5	7	69	267
	Rastriya Janamorcha	1	2	15	56
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independents	1	1	10	32
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	0	2	2	12
	Naya Shakti Party, Nepal	0	0	5	24
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	0	0	0	2
Total		85	85	759	3,005
Source: Election Commission of Nepal

Province No. 5

Parties		Mayor/Head	Deputy Mayor/Head	Ward Chair	Ward Member
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color;" |	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	43	47	355	1,498
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color;" |	Nepali Congress	33	31	317	1,223
	Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)	19	22	181	692
	Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal	6	5	43	190
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independents	3	0	21	44
	Rastriya Janamorcha	2	2	18	89
	Nepal Loktantrik Forum	2	0	19	76
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	1	1	17	65
	Naya Shakti Party, Nepal	0	1	5	17
	Bahujan Shakti Party	0	0	7	30
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	0	0	0	5
Total		109	109	983	3,929
Source: Election Commission of Nepal

Province No. 6

Parties		Mayor/Head	Deputy Mayor/Head	Ward Chair	Ward Member
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color;" |	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	27	31	268	1,074
	Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)	25	26	219	876
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color;" |	Nepali Congress	25	16	203	776
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independents	2	4	11	10
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	0	2	7	36
	Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party	0	0	10	35
	Nepal Loktantrik Forum	0	0	0	1
	Nepal Pariwar Dal	0	0	0	1
	Rastriya Janamorcha	0	0	0	1
Total		79	79	718	2,810
Source: Election Commission of Nepal

Province No. 7

Parties		Mayor/Head	Deputy Mayor/Head	Ward Chair	Ward Member
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color;" |	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	39	44	300	1,249
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color;" |	Nepali Congress	38	34	301	1,192
	Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)	10	9	113	400
	Nepal Loktantrik Forum	1	1	15	68
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	0	0	3	10
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |	Independents	0	0	2	3
	Naya Shakti Party, Nepal	0	0	0	2
Total		88	88	734	2,924
Source: Election Commission of Nepal

Cities

See also: 2017 Kathmandu municipal election and Lalitpur municipal election, 2017

City	Mayor		Deputy Mayor
Kathmandu #DC241F	Bidya Sundar Shakya (UML) green	Hari Prabha Khadgi (NC)
Lalitpur green	Chiri Babu Maharjan (NC) green	Gita Satyal (NC)
Pokhara Lekhnath #DC241F	Man Bahadur GC (UML) #DC241F	Manju Devi Gurung (UML)
Bharatpur		Renu Dahal (MC) green	Parbati Shah Thakuri (NC)
Hetauda #DC241F	Hari Bahadur Mahat (UML) #DC241F	Mina Kumari Lama (UML)
Ghorahi #DC241F	Naru Lal Chaudhary (UML) #DC241F	Sita Neupane (UML)
Nepalgunj		Dhawal Shamsher JBR (RPP) green	Uma Thapa Magar (NC)
Butwal #DC241F	Shiva Raj Subedi (UML) #DC241F	Guma Devi Acharya (UML)
Tuslipur #DC241F	Ghana Shyam Pandey (UML) #DC241F	Maya Sharma (UML)
Itahari #DC241F	Dwarik Lal Chaudhary (UML) #DC241F	Laxmi Kumari Gautam (UML)
Dhangadhi green	Nrip Bahadur Wad (NC) green	Sushila Mishra (NC)
Biratnagar green	Bheem Parajuli (NC) green	Indira Karki (NC)
Dharan #DC241F	Tara Subba (UML) #DC241F	Manju Bhandari (UML)
Janakpur		Lal Kishore Shah (RJPN)		Rita Kumari Mishra (RJPN)
Jitpur Simara #DC241F	Krishna Prasad Paudel (UML) #DC241F	Saraswati Devi Chaudhary (UML)
Kalaiya green	Rajesh Rae Yadav (NC) green	Raheema Khatun (NC)
Birgunj		Vijay Kumar Sarawagi (FSFN) green	Shanti Karki (NC)

Incidents

The first phase of election was largely peaceful but there were sporadic instances of violence. A CPN-UML activist was killed in Gaurisankar Village Council, Dolakha on the eve of election. Another person was killed in Namobuddha municipality, Kavre on the day of election, the incident is still under investigation. One person died after security personnel opened fire during a clash between the cadres of Nepali Congress and CPN-UML in Melung village council of Dolakha district on election day. A candidate from Rastriya Prajantantra Party died in Naraharinath Village Council, Kalikot after police opened fire when cadres of Netra Bikram Chand led CPN tried to capture the ballot boxes.

A reelection took place in one ward of Bharatpur after a CPN-Maoist Centre vote count representative tore 90 ballot papers when the count was in progress.

In the second phase, a UML cadre died after being hit by a stone in his testicles during a clash with Nepali Congress cadres at Chededaha Village council Bajura. A cadre of Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN Maoist died in Dhangadi, Kailali after a bomb carried by him exploded prematurely on June 26.

External links

• Local Election Results(in Nepali)