2017 Lalitpur municipal election

Municipal election for Lalitpur, the third largest city in Nepal, was held on May 14, 2017 for the post of Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Ward Chairmen and Ward Members. All posts were elected by First past the post method; with all having a tenure of 5 years.[1]

2017 Lalitpur municipal elections
14 May 2017

147 seats to Lalitpur Metropolitan City Council
74 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Nepali Congress CPN (UML)

Maoist Centre
Seats won 44 65 10
Percentage 27.62% 27.26% 11.95%

  Fourth party
 
Party Naya Shakti
Seats won 1
Percentage 0.7%

Council control after election

Nepali Congress
Chiri Babu Maharjan
Elected Mayor

Background

Elections were last held in 2006 and since then the city has been without an elected executive. With the passing of a new constitution, a commission was formed to restructure the existing local levels into more powerful and autonomous local bodies. With the addition of Wards 1 to 13 of Karyabinayak municipality, the city was upgraded from sub-metropolitan to metropolitan city with 29 wards. 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.

Results

Summary of Lalitpur mayoral election, 2017
Party Candidate Votes  %
Nepali Congress Chiri Babu Maharjan 24,642 27.62
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Hari Krishna Byanjankar 24,316 27.26
Independent Ramesh Maharjan 13,458 15.09
CPN (Maoist Centre) Dinesh Maharjan 10,661 11.95
Others 2,037 2.28
Invalid/blank votes14,10015.80
Total89,214100
Registered voters/turnout112,92379.00
Summary of Lalitpur deputy-mayoral election, 2017
Party Candidate Votes  %
Nepali Congress Gita Satyal 19,819 22.22
Independent Shova Shakya 14,240 15.96
CPN (Maoist Centre) Hasina Shakya 12,979 14.55
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Babu Kaji Pradhan 10,540 11.81
Naya Shakti Sajani Maharjan 1,380 1.55
Others 860 0.96
Invalid/blank votes29,39632.95
Total89,214100
Registered voters/turnout112,92379.00

Ward Results

Summary of Party wise Ward chairman and Ward member seats won, 2017
Party Chairman Members
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) 14 62
Nepali Congress 10 32
CPN (Maoist Centre) 4 10
Independent 1 0
Naya Shakti 0 1
Total 29 105

4 candidates (3 from CPN-UML and 1 from Naya Shakti) for Ward Members were elected unopposed under Dalit woman reserved seats. 11 ward member seats reserved for Dalit women were left unfilled due to lack of candidates.

References

  1. Chalise, Radha. "ललितपुर महानगरमा चुनावी माहोल बन्दै". Gorkhapatraonline.com. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
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