2022 Bharatpur municipal election

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2022 Bharatpur municipal elections
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147 seats to Bharatpur Metropolitan City Council
74 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Nepalese Election Symbol Hammer and sickle.svg CPN (UML) election symbol 1.png Indian Election Symbol Pineapple.png
Leader Renu Dahal Bijay Subedi Jagannath Paudel [1]
Party Maoist Centre CPN (UML) Independent
Seats before8700
Seats won10521
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 2Decrease2.svg 18Increase2.svg 1
Popular vote52,02839,58214,728
Percentage48.3%36.8%13.7%
 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
  Nepalese Election Symbol Tree.svg Nepalese Election Symbol Pen.svg Logo RPP, Nepal.png
Party Nepali Congress Unified Socialist RPP
Seats before6900
Seats won7554
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 6Increase2.svg 5Increase2.svg 4
Mayor before election

Renu Dahal
Maoist Centre

Elected Mayor

Renu Dahal
Maoist Centre

Municipal election for Bharatpur took place on 13 May 2022, with all 147 positions up for election across 29 wards. [2] [3] The electorate elected a mayor, a deputy mayor, 29 ward chairs and 116 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]

Contents

Renu Dahal of CPN (Maoist Centre) was re-elected as mayor winning 48.3% of the votes and Nepali Congress gained control of the council. [6]

Background

Bharatpur was established in 1978 as a municipality. The municipality was upgraded to a sub-metropolitan city in 2014 after incorporating neighboring village development committees into Bharatpur municipality. [7] The metropolitan city was created in 2017 after incorporating Narayani municipality, Chitraban municipality and Kalibas VDC into Bharatpur sub-metropolitan city. [8] 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. [9]

In the previous election, Renu Dahal from CPN (Maoist Centre) was elected as the first mayor of the metropolitan city. [10]

Candidates

Jagannath Paudel

A veteran Nepali Congress politician and advocate Paudel is an Independent mayoral candidate. Behind Poudel is a team of former presidents of Chitwan Congress Krishnalal Sapkota and Tikaram Neupane, former district secretary Anand Raj Raut, former MP Bhim Bahadur Shrestha, leader Meena Kharel, former president of Tarun Dal Shambhu Aryal and others. Paudel has previously served as deputy mayor of Bharatpur winning election in 2054 BS. He's even served as member of National Assembly. Currently, Election Commission has given him pineapple election symbol.

Paudel is one the founder of community campus, Balkumari Campus of Bharatpur. Similarly, Paudel has been involving in various social welfare activities. [11]

He's been a threat to both CPN (Maoist Centre) and CPN (UML) candidate while Nepali Congress had obtained the highest wardwise vote in previous elections. [12]

Renu Dahal

Dahal, a former mayor of Bharatpur is running in the election even this time from CPN (Maoist Centre). Dahal is the daughter of Pushpa Kamal Dahal. Dahal had won 2017 election with the help of Nepali Congress.

Bijay Subedi

Subedi, a former member of Provincial Assembly of Bagmati Province is the mayoral candidate from CPN (UML). He was put forward by Devi Gyawali who had lost previous elections by a very small margin.

List of Mayor and deputy mayor candidates

PartyMayor candidateDeputy Mayor candidate
Nepali Congress Chitrasen Adhikari [13]
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Bijay Subedi [13]
CPN (Maoist Centre) Renu Dahal [13]
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Himali Gurung [13]
Dissident Nepali Congress Jagannath Paudel [13]

Surveys and opinion polls

DateNews agencySample sizeRenu DahalBijay SubediJagannath PaudelUndecidedResult
8 May 2022Setopati [14] 24266572397Hung
27%23%9%41%

National level news agency, Setopati conducted opinion poll among 242 people of Bharatpur of different areas which gave a conclusion that majority Nepali Congress voters were undecided. Some of them were campaigning for Renu Dahal but we're determined to vote Jagannath Paudel during vote to be safe from party expel. Few people who had voted Renu Dahal last time were thinking to vote Jagannath this time. Few voters criticized Puspa Kamal Dahal's statement of accident in country again if his daughter Renu lost the election.

Similarly, all the voters of CPN (UML)-RPP alliance were determined to vote their own candidate. This brought a conclusion that even CPN (UML) could vote Jagannath Paudel in contrition that they were sure of themself not to win. Similarly, there was effect in CPN (UML) vote after party split under leadership of Madhav Nepal. [14]

Exit polls

DatePollsterDahalSubediPaudelOthersLead
Maoist UML Ind
13 May 2022Facts Nepal [15] 41.4%29.9%19.8%8.9%11.5%

Results

Mayoral election

Mayoral elections result
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Maoist Centre Renu Dahal 52,028 48.3% +2.8%
CPN (UML) Bijay Subedi39,58236.8%-8.5%
Independent Jagannath Paudel14,72813.7%New
Others1,3111.2%
Total valid votes107,649100.0%
Rejected ballots20,190
Turnout 127,839
Registered electors 185,752 [16]
Maoist Centre hold
Deputy mayoral elections result
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nepali Congress Chitrasen Adhikari 52,803 62.2% +12.6%
RPP Himala Gurung30,61136.1%+28.5%
Others1,4711.7%
Total valid votes84,885100.0%
Rejected ballots42,954
Turnout 127,839
Registered electors 185,752 [16]
Nepali Congress hold

Ward results

Results of ward chair by party Bharatpur 2022LocalElectionWard.svg
Results of ward chair by party
Summary of Partywise Ward chairman and Ward member seats won, 2022
PartyChairmanMembers
Nepali Congress 1658
CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) 646
CPN (Maoist Centre) 36
CPN (Unified Socialist) 32
Rastriya Prajatantra Party 04
Independent 10
Total29116

Summary of ward results

Ward No.Ward ChairWard Members
OpenOpen 2FemaleFemale Dalit
1
Keshav Maharjan



2
Manoj Ranabhat



3
Bikas Thapa



4
Arpan Pokharel



5
Yuddha Prasad Shrestha



6
Krishna Lal Shrestha



7
Rajendra Mani Kafle



8
Jeevan Nath Kadel



9
Yam Lal Kadel



10
Parmeshwar Khanal



11
Kamal Bahadur Malla



12
Lekh Raj Pant



13
Prakash Dawadi



14
Rajendra Sakhi



15
Shree Krishna Devkota



16
Amrit Raj Hamal



17
Lalit Man Tamang



18
Babu Ram Rana Magar



19
Prakash Tamang



20
Mukti Prasad Ghale



21
Krishna Kumar Gurung



22
Bishnu Raj Mahato



23
Dipak Dawadi



24
Ram Bahadur Godar



25
Chhabilal Sapkota



26
Gyan Prasad Khanal



27
Ram Bahadur Bhandari



28
Danda Pani Rijal



29
Surya Bahadur Gurung



Results for municipal executive election

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. [4]

Municipal Assembly composition

PartyMembers
Nepali Congress 75
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) 52
CPN (Maoist Centre) 10
CPN (Unified Socialist) 5
Rastriya Prajatantra Party 4
Independent 1
Total147

Results

CategoryCandidate [17] PartyVotes
Female MemberSirjana Adhikari Nepali Congress 91
Sukmaya B.K.89
Sharada Pokharel87
Narbada Sapkota86
Bina Nepali CPN (Maoist Centre) 86
Dalit/Minority MemberGopal Darai Nepali Congress 97
Kopila Uparkoti CPN (Unified Socialist) 92
Bishnu Bahadur Bhujel CPN (Maoist Centre) 86

Municipal Executive composition

PartyMembers
Nepali Congress 22
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) 6
CPN (Maoist Centre) 6
CPN (Unified Socialist) 4
Independent 1
Total39

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