2022 Dharan municipal election

2022 Dharan municipal elections
	March 2022[1]
? seats to Dharan Metropolitan City Council; ? seats needed for a majority
Incumbent Mayor; Nepali Congress; Tilak Rai; Outgoing Mayor;	; ;

Municipal election for Dharan is expected to be held in March 2022 for the position of Mayor, a Deputy Mayor, 32 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. The electorate for this election will the 159 members chosen direct election.[4]

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. 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
	Nepali Congress	Kishor Rai[5]
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

Results

Mayoral election

Summary of Dharan mayoral election, 2022
Party		Candidate	%
	Nepali Congress	Kishor Rai
	Communist Party of Nepal (UML)
	Others
Invalid/blank votes
Total			100
Registered voters/turnout

Summary of Dharan deputy-mayoral election, 2022
Party		%
	Nepali Congress
	Communist Party of Nepal (UML)
	Others
Invalid/blank votes
Total		100
Registered voters/turnout

Ward results

Summary of Partywise Ward chairman and Ward member seats won, 2022
Party		Chairman	Members
	Nepali Congress
	Communist Party of Nepal (UML)
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party
Total

References

स्थानीय तहको चुनाव ५ चैतभित्र गर्न आयोगको सुझाव. Himalkhabar हिमालखबर.
Article 215(6) of the Constitution of Nepal (September 20, 2015)
"Nepal Election Commission proposes local level polls in March next year". India News (News Reader). Retrieved 2021-11-30.
यसरी चुनिँदै छन् स्थानीय प्रतिनिधि, कार्यपालिकाभन्दा व्यवस्थापिका ठूलो. Setopati. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
रातोपाटी. "काँग्रेसले सुनसरी तय गर्‍यो उम्मेदवार : इटहरीमा हेमकर्ण र धरानमा किशोर". RatoPati (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-04-25.

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[1] स्थानीय तहको चुनाव ५ चैतभित्र गर्न आयोगको सुझाव. Himalkhabar हिमालखबर.

[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] रातोपाटी. "काँग्रेसले सुनसरी तय गर्‍यो उम्मेदवार : इटहरीमा हेमकर्ण र धरानमा किशोर". RatoPati (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-04-25.