| Election Name: | 2022 Nepalgunj municipal elections |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2017 Nepalgunj municipal election |
| Previous Year: | 2017 |
| Next Election: | 2027 Nepalgunj municipal elections |
| Next Year: | 2027 |
| Seats For Election: | 117 seats to Nepalgunj Sub Metropolitan City Council |
| Majority Seats: | 59 |
| Election Date: | 13 May 2022 |
| Image1: | Nepalese Election Symbol Tree.svg |
| Leader1: | Prashant Bista |
| Party1: | Nepali Congress |
| Seats Before1: | 39 |
| Seats1: | 42 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 23,460 |
| Percentage1: | 52.2% |
| Image3: | Nepal Communist Party symbol.svg |
| Party3: | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) |
| Seats Before3: | 20 |
| Seats3: | 25 |
| Seat Change3: | 5 |
| Popular Vote3: | 11,675 |
| Percentage3: | 26.0% |
| Party2: | People's Socialist Party, Nepal |
| Seats Before2: | 13 |
| Seats2: | 25 |
| Seat Change2: | 12 |
| Image4: | Logo RPP, Nepal.png |
| Party4: | Rastriya Prajatantra Party |
| Seats Before4: | 26 |
| Seats4: | 14 |
| Seat Change4: | 12 |
| Popular Vote4: | 7,598 |
| Percentage4: | 16.9% |
| Image5: | Nepalese Election Symbol Hammer and sickle.svg |
| Party5: | Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) |
| Seats Before5: | 19 |
| Seats5: | 11 |
| Seat Change5: | 8 |
| Map Size: | 150px |
| Mayor | |
| Posttitle: | Elected Mayor |
| Before Election: | Dhawal Shamsher Rana |
| Before Party: | Rastriya Prajatantra Party |
| After Election: | Prashant Bista |
| After Party: | Nepali Congress |
Municipal election for Nepalgunj took place on 13 May 2022, with all 117 positions up for election across 23 wards.[1] [2] The electorate elected a mayor, a deputy mayor, 23 ward chairs and 92 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]
Prashant Bista from Nepali Congress was elected as the mayor of the sub metropolitan city.[5]
Nepalgunj was established as a municipality in 1969. The sub-metropolitan city was created in 2014 by merging neighboring village development committees into Nepalgunj municipality.[6] 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 previous mayor of the municipality Dhawal Shamsher Rana from Rastriya Prajatantra Party was elected as the first mayor of the sub-metropolitan city.[8] He did not contest for re-election and instead announced his intention to run for the House of Representatives.
| Party | Mayor candidate | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nepali Congress | Prashant Bista | ||
| Rastriya Prajatantra Party | |||
| CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | |||
|-! colspan="2" style="text-align:centre;" | Party! Chairman! Members
|-| style="background-color:;" || style="text-align:left;" |Nepali Congress| style="text-align:center;" | 5| style="text-align:center;" | 36|-| style="background-color:;" || style="text-align:left;" |CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)| style="text-align:center;" | 5| style="text-align:center;" | 20|-| style="background-color:;" || style="text-align:left;" |People's Socialist Party, Nepal| style="text-align:center;" | 6| style="text-align:center;" | 18|-| style="background-color:;" || style="text-align:left;" |Rastriya Prajatantra Party| style="text-align:center;" | 3| style="text-align:center;" | 11|-| style="background-color:;" || style="text-align:left;" |CPN (Maoist Centre)| style="text-align:center;" | 4| style="text-align:center;" | 7|-! colspan="2" style="text-align:right;" | Total! 23! 92|}
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chairman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Female Member | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Female Dalit Member | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Open Member | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Open Member |
| Party | Mayor | Deputy Mayor | Ward Chairman | Ward Members | Total seats | Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nepali Congress | 1 | 5 | 36 | 41 | Largest party | |||
| Communist Party of Nepal (UML) | 5 | 20 | 25 | |||||
| People's Socialist Party, Nepal | 1 | 6 | 18 | 25 | ||||
| Rastriya Prajatantra Party | 3 | 11 | 14 | |||||
| CPN (Maoist Centre) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | ||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 23 | 92 | 117 | 59 for Majority | ||