| Election Name: | 2022 Pokhara municipal elections |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2017 Pokhara municipal election |
| Previous Year: | 2017 |
| Next Election: | 2027 Pokhara municipal elections |
| Next Year: | 2027 |
| Seats For Election: | 167 seats to Pokhara Metropolitan City Council |
| Majority Seats: | 84 |
| Election Date: | 13 May 2022[1] |
| Image1: | Nepalese Election Symbol Pen.svg |
| Leader1: | Dhana Raj Acharya |
| Party1: | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) |
| Seats Before1: | 0 |
| Seats1: | 1 |
| Seat Change1: | 1 |
| Popular Vote1: | 58,893 |
| Percentage1: | 48.1% |
| Leader2: | Krishna Bahadur Thapa |
| Party2: | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) |
| Seats Before2: | 119 |
| Seats2: | 86 |
| Seat Change2: | 33 |
| Popular Vote2: | 52,848 |
| Percentage2: | 43.2% |
| Image4: | Nepalese Election Symbol Tree.svg |
| Leader4: | Shankar Kharal |
| Party4: | Nepali Congress |
| Seats Before4: | 48 |
| Seats4: | 79 |
| Seat Change4: | 31 |
| Party5: | Independent politician |
| Seats Before5: | 0 |
| Seats5: | 1 |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | Man Bahadur GC |
| Before Party: | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) |
| After Election: | Dhana Raj Acharya |
| After Party: | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) |
Municipal election for Pokhara took place on 13 May 2022, with all 167 positions up for election across 33 wards.[2] [3] The electorate elected a mayor, a deputy mayor, 33 ward chairs and 132 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.[4] [5]
Dhanraj Acharya of CPN (Unified Socialist) was elected mayor of Pokhara Metropolitan city.
Pokhara was established in 1962 as a municipality. The metropolitan city was created in 2017 by incorporating neighboring village development committees and Lekhnath municipality into Pokhara sub-metropolitan city.[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, Man Bahadur GC from CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) was elected as the first mayor of the metropolitan city.[8]
| Post | Parties | Symbol | Name | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor | CPN (Unified Socialist) | Dhanraj Acharya | ||
| Rastriya Prajatantra Party | Shankar Kharal | |||
| CPN (UML) | Krishna Bahadur Thapa | |||
| Deputy mayor | Nepali Congress | Kopila Ranabhat | ||
| Rastriya Prajatantra Party | Ranjana Kumari Saini Paudel | |||
| CPN (UML) | Manju Devi Gurung | |||
| Date | News agency | Sample size | Dhan Raj Acharya | Undecided | Krishna Bahadur Thapa | Shankar Kharal | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 May 2022 | Setopati[9] | 150 | 56 | 43 | 38 | 9 | Hung |
| 37% | 29% | 25% | 6% | ||||
|-! colspan="2" style="text-align:centre;" | Party! Chairman! Members|-| style="background-color:;" || style="text-align:left;" |Nepali Congress| style="text-align:center;" | 23| style="text-align:center;" | 56|-| style="background-color:;" || style="text-align:left;" |CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)| style="text-align:center;" | 9| style="text-align:center;" | 76|-| style="background-color:;" || style="text-align:left;" |Independent| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | 0|-! colspan="2" style="text-align:right;" | Total! 33! 132|}
| Ward No. | Ward Chair | Ward Members | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Open 2 | Female | Female Dalit | ||||
| 1 | Shahara Pradhan | ||||||
| 2 | Diwas Man Pradhananga | ||||||
| 3 | Prakash Man Udas | ||||||
| 4 | Dev Krishna Parajuli | ||||||
| 5 | Bishnu Prasad Baral | ||||||
| 6 | Bishnu Bahadur Bhattarai | ||||||
| 7 | Ram Mohan Acharya | ||||||
| 8 | Rudra Nath Baral | ||||||
| 9 | Dipendra Marsani | ||||||
| 10 | Rajesh Gurung | ||||||
| 11 | Prem Prasad Karmacharya | ||||||
| 12 | Santosh Bastola | ||||||
| 13 | Kiran Baral | ||||||
| 14 | Bodh Bahadur Karki | ||||||
| 15 | Toran Bahadur Baniya | ||||||
| 16 | Amrit Sharma Timilsina | ||||||
| 17 | Radhika Kumari Shahi | ||||||
| 18 | Shiva Prasad Timilsina | ||||||
| 19 | Pushpendra Pandey | ||||||
| 20 | Ganga Bahadur Khatri | ||||||
| 21 | Dipak Prasad Subedi | ||||||
| 22 | Him Lal Baral | ||||||
| 23 | Ram Kaji Gurung | ||||||
| 24 | Bharat Bahadur Adhikari | ||||||
| 25 | Moti Lal Timilsina | ||||||
| 26 | Narendra Thapa | ||||||
| 27 | Purna Kumar Gurung | ||||||
| 28 | Shree Krishna Lamichhane | ||||||
| 29 | Shree Prasad Gurung | ||||||
| 30 | Durga Prasad Subedi | ||||||
| 31 | Dhaknath Kadel | ||||||
| 32 | Akkal Bahadur Karki | ||||||
| 33 | Ram Chandra Adhikari | ||||||
The municipal executive consists of the mayor, who is also the chair of the municipal executive, the deputy mayor and ward chairs from each ward. The members of the municipal assembly will elect five female members and three members from the Dalit and minority community to the municipal executive using single non-transferable vote.[11]
| Party | Members | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | 86 | ||
| Nepali Congress | 79 | ||
| CPN (Unified Socialist) | 1 | ||
| Independent | 1 | ||
| Total | 167 | ||
| Category | Candidate[12] | Party | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female Member | Dhankumari Pokharel | CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | 86 | |
| Nirmala Paudel | 86 | |||
| Bhimkumari Pun Garbuja | 86 | |||
| Mandira Pariyar | 86 | |||
| Harimaya Bishwakarma | 86 | |||
| Daldadevi Bhujel | Nepali Congress | 81 | ||
| Durgadevi Thapa | 81 | |||
| Pabitra Thapa | 81 | |||
| Ransuwa Gurung | 80 | |||
| Bhawana Shrestha | 79 | |||
| Dalit/Minority Member | Nirmal Diyali | CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | 87 | |
| Govinda Tulachan | 86 | |||
| Dipak Ghimire | 86 | |||
| Lal Bahadur B.K. | CPN (Unified Socialist) | 81 | ||
| Pan Bahadur Gharti | People's Socialist Party | 80 | ||
| Bhim Bahadur Sarki | CPN (Maoist Centre) | 78 | ||
| Party | Members | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nepali Congress | 23 | ||
| CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | 18 | ||
| CPN (Unified Socialist) | 1 | ||
| Independent | 1 | ||
| Total | 43 | ||