2022 Birgunj municipal election

Municipal election for Birgunj, is expected to be held in May 2022 for the position of Mayor, a Deputy Mayor, Ward Chairmen and Ward Members. All positions are for a period of 5 years.[2][3] A secondary election is to be held for municipal executive which will elect 5 women from the elected ward members and 3 members who must be from the Dalit and minority community.[4]

2022 Birgunj municipal elections
13 May 2022[1]
? seats to Birgunj Metropolitan City Council
 
Leader Ajay Dwivedi Rajesh Man Singh
Party Nepali Congress PSP-N
 
Leader Bijay Sarawagi
Party Loktantrik Samajwadi CPN (UML)
Incumbent Mayor

Bijay Sarawagi
Outgoing Mayor


Background

Elections were last held in 2017. With the passing of a new constitution, a commission was formed to restructure the existing local levels into more powerful and autonomous local bodies. The city limits of Kathmandu remained unchanged during this restructuring but the number of wards was decreased from 35 to 32. Electors in each ward will elect a ward chairman and 4 ward members. Out of 4 ward members, 2 must be female and one of the 2 females must belong to the Dalit community.

Candidates
Party Mayor candidate Deputy Mayor candidate
People's Socialist Party, Nepal Rajesh Man Singh[5]
Nepali Congress Imtiaz Alam[5]
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Vijay Kumar Sarawagi[6]
Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal Purushottam Lal Jha[6]
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Girish Giri[7] Bina Jaiswal[7]
Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party Gokarna Prasad Koiri
Bahujan Shakti Party Laxmi Hajara
Nepal Sadbhawana Party Bijay Kumar Rauniyar
Janamat Party Dinesh Ram Anita Devi
Independent Rajesh Singh
Independent Kailash Prasad Sarraf
Independent Feroz Alam
Independent Mohammad Hafiz Miya
Independent Bhola Patel
Independent Mohammad Jya-ul-haq Hawari
Independent Mohammad Sagir Ali
Independent Rizwan Ali
Independent Bikki Raj Patel
Independent Mohammad Riyaz-ul-haq
Independent Rajendra Prasad Singh Bhumihar
Independent Sanjeev Kumar Yadav
Independent Radheshyam Sah
Independent Ajay Kumar Kurmi
Independent Sasuddin Miya
Independent Satrudhan Prasad Kurmi
Independent Sunil Kumar Kalwar
Independent Brijmohan Prasad Chaurasiya
Independent Sumit Kumar Singh
Independent Koshila Devi Kanuin
Independent Jamil Ray Bhat
Independent Prabhat Singh
Independent Roz Miya Ansari
Independent Rambha Mishra
Independent Birendra Sah
Independent Dinesh Kumar Kushwaha
Independent Rambabu Mahato Nuniya
Independent Dipak Prasad Patel

Mayoral results
Summary of Birgunj mayoral election, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
Nepali Congress
People's Socialist Party, Nepal
Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
Others
Invalid/blank votes
Total100
Registered voters/turnout
Summary of Birgunj deputy-mayoral election, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
Nepali Congress
People's Socialist Party, Nepal
Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
Others
Invalid/blank votes
Total100
Registered voters/turnout

Ward results
Summary of Partywise Ward chairman and Ward member seats won, 2022
Party Chairman Members
Nepali Congress
People's Socialist Party, Nepal
Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
Total

See also

References
  1. "Local election on May 13". February 7, 2022. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
  2. Article 215(6) of the Constitution of Nepal (September 20, 2015)
  3. "Nepal Election Commission proposes local level polls in March next year". India News (News Reader). Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  4. "यसरी चुनिँदै छन् स्थानीय प्रतिनिधि, कार्यपालिकाभन्दा व्यवस्थापिका ठूलो". Setopati. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  5. "वीरगन्जमा गठबन्धनका तर्फबाट मेयरमा जसपाका सिंह र उपमेयरमा कांग्रेसका आलमले दिए उम्मेदवारी". ekantipur.com (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  6. Setopati, सेतोपाटी संवाददाता. "यी हुन् ६ महानगर र ११ उपमहानगरमा सत्ता गठबन्धन र एमालेका मेयर/उपमेयर उम्मेदवार". Setopati (in Hindi). Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  7. "यी हुन् राप्रपाले टुंग्याएका उम्मेदवारहरु". ekantipur.com (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-04-25.
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