The Mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government in Nepal. There are in total 293 mayors in Nepal (6 metropolitan cities, 11 sub-metropolitan cities, and 276 municipalities).[1] [2] Mayors are very powerful in the municipal government.[3] They are the head of the local government of Nepal . The data available here is of before split of Nepal Communist Party, CPN(UML) and People's Socialist Party, Nepal.
| Party | Koshi | Madhesh | Bagmati | Gandaki | Lumbini | Karnali | Sudurpaschim | Overall | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nepali Congress | 24 | 30 | 24 | 15 | 21 | 12 | 18 | 144 | ||
| CPN (UML) | 23 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 84 | ||
| Maoist Centre | 0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 26 | ||
| Unified Socialist | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13 | ||
| People's Socialist Party | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | ||
| Loktantrik Samajwadi | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||
| Rastriya Prajatantra Party | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Nagrik Unmukti Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Rastriya Janamorcha | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Janamat Party | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Majdoor Kisan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Total | 49 | 77 | 45 | 27 | 36 | 25 | 34 | 293 | ||
There is 1 Metropolitan city, 2 Sub-Metropolitan cities and 46 Municipalities in Koshi Pradesh . All together there are 49 Mayors in Koshi Pradesh.
There is 1 Metropolitan city, 3 Sub-Metropolitan Cities, 73 Municipalities in Province No. 2. Altogether there are 77 Mayors in Province no. 2.
Bagmati Pradesh have 3 Metropolitan cities, 1 Sub-Metropolitan city and 41 Municipalities. Altogether there are 45 Mayors In Bagmati province .
There is 1 Metropolitan city and 26 Municipalities in Gandaki Pradesh. Altogether there are 27 Mayors In Gandaki Pradesh.
There are 4 Sub-Metropolitan cities and 32 Municipalities. Altogether there are 36 Mayors In Province No 5 .
There are only 1 Sub-Metropolitan City and 24 Municipalities and Mayors in Karnali Pradesh.
There are altogether 33 Municipalities, 1 Sub-metropolitan city in Sudurpachim Pradesh. In total there are 34 Mayors in Sudurpachim Pradesh.