2022 Ghorahi municipal election

Municipal election for Ghorahi took place on 13 May 2022, with all 97 positions up for election across 19 wards.[1][2] The electorate elected a mayor, a deputy mayor, 19 ward chairs and 76 ward members. An indirect election will also be held to elect five female members and an additional three female members from the Dalit and minority community to the municipal executive.[3][4]

2022 Ghorahi municipal elections
13 May 2022
97 seats to Ghorahi Sub Metropolitan City Council
49 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Naru Lal Chaudhary Hemraj Sharma
Party CPN (UML) Nepali Congress Maoist Centre
Seats before 55 29 14
Seats won 67 23 7
Seat change Increase 12 Decrease 5 Decrease 7
Popular vote 31,728 26,368
Percentage 48.2% 40.0%
Results for ward chair by party
Mayor before election

Naru Lal Chaudhary
UML

 Elected Mayor

Naru Lal Chaudhary
UML

Incumbent Naru Lal Chaudhary from CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) was re-elected as mayor.[5]

Background

Ghorahi was established as a municipality in 1979. The sub-metropolitan city was created in 2017 by merging neighboring Tripur municipality and other village development committees into Ghorahi municipality.[6] The Electors in each ward elect a ward chair and four ward members, out of which two must be female and one of the two must belong to the Dalit community.[7]

In the previous election, Naru Lal Chaudhary of the CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) was elected as the first mayor of the sub-metropolitan city.[8]

Candidates
Party Mayor candidate Deputy Mayor candidate
Nepali Congress Bhup Bahadur Dangi[9]
CPN (Maoist Centre) Hemraj Sharma[9]
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Narulal Chaudhary[10] Mankuamri DC[10]

Results

Mayoral election
Mayoral elections result
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPN (UML) Naru Lal Chaudhary 31,728 48.2% +7.4%
Maoist Centre Hemraj Sharma 26,368 40.0% +17.6%
RPP Sarita Devkota 5,324 8.1% +6.0%
Unified Socialist Ram Prasad Chaudhary 1,143 1.7% New
Others 1,275 1.9%
Total votes 65,838 100.0%
CPN (UML) hold
Deputy mayoral elections result
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPN (UML) Huma Kumari DC 30,403 45.9% +7.5%
Nepali Congress Bhup Bahadur Dangi 30,345 45.8% +13.3%
RPP Bibhu Budhathoki 3,521 5.3% +3.9%
Unified Socialist Shobha Kumari Shahi 1,158 1.7% New
Others 768 1.2%
Total votes 66,195 100.0%
CPN (UML) hold

Ward results
Summary of Partywise Ward chairman and Ward member seats won, 2022
Party Chairman Members
CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) 13 52
Nepali Congress 5 18
CPN (Maoist Centre) 1 6
Total 19 76

Results by ward
Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Ward Chair
Open Member
Open Member
Female Member
Female Dalit Member

See also

References
  1. Article 215(6) of the Constitution of Nepal (September 20, 2015)
  2. "Government announces local level elections for May 13". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  3. Article 216(4) of the Constitution of Nepal (September 20, 2015)
  4. यसरी चुनिँदै छन् स्थानीय प्रतिनिधि, कार्यपालिकाभन्दा व्यवस्थापिका ठूलो. Setopati. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  5. "UML's victory in Ghorahi sub-metropolis". NepalNews. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  6. "घोराही उप-महानगरपालिकाको आधिकारिक वेभसाइटमा तपाईलाई स्वागत छ । | घोराही उप-महानगरपालिका". 26 September 2017. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. Article 223(2) of the Constitution of Nepal (September 20, 2015)
  8. Basnet, Devendra. "UML wins in Ghorahi Sub-metropolitan City". My Republica. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  9. "Candidates finalized in Dang". Nepalnews. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  10. "UML finalized candidates for metropolitan and sub-metropolitan constituencies". Nepalnews. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
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