2022 Rajbiraj municipal election

2022 Rajbiraj municipal elections
85 seats to Rajbiraj Municipal City Council; 43 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	72.65% ( 0.20 pp)
	Summary of Partywise Ward chairperson won, 2022
Mayor before election; Shambhu Prasad Yadav ; Maoist Centre	Elected Mayor ; Bhimraj Yadav ; People's Socialist Party, Nepal (2020) Contents Background ; Voters ; Election schedule ; Candidates ; Mayor Candidates ; Candidates list (Mayor and Deputy Mayor) ; Candidate list (Ward Chairperson) ; Voters turnout ; Results ; Mayoral election ; Deputy-Mayoral election ; Ward results ; Ward wise electoral details ; Summary of results by ward ; See also ; References ;

Last updated September 15, 2024

The Municipal election for Rajbiraj were held in 13 May 2022 to elect a mayor, a deputy mayor, 16 ward chairperson and ward members. All positions are for a period of 5 years.^[2] A secondary election is to be held for the municipal executives 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 be the 82 members chosen by direct election.^[3] Janata Samajwadi Party mayoral candidate Bhimraj Yadav was elected as a Mayor of Rajbiraj by securing 9,624 votes.^[4]

Background

The last local level elections were held in 2017.^[5] With the passing of a new constitution in 2015, a commission was formed to restructure the existing local levels into more powerful and autonomous local bodies. The city limits of Rajbiraj were changed during this restructuring and the number of wards was increased from 10 to 16. Electors in each ward will elect a ward chairperson 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.^[6]

Voters

Election Commission of Nepal is the responsible body to update and publish the final electoral rolls before the election in Nepal.^[7] The election commission had published the final voter list for the local level election on March 27. There is a total of 39,692 registered voters who can cast their vote in Rajbiraj municipal election.^[8]^[9] The Ward wise electoral details for the 2022 Rajbiraj municipal election:^[10]

Ward wise electoral details
No.	Ward No.	Men	Women	Third gender	Total
1.	Ward No. 1	2017	1731	2	3750
2.	Ward No. 2	1309	1213	0	2522
3.	Ward No. 3	819	691	0	1510
4.	Ward No. 4	1164	988	0	2152
5.	Ward No. 5	932	858	0	1790
6.	Ward No. 6	1966	1767	0	3733
7.	Ward No. 7	1736	1560	0	3296
8.	Ward No. 8	1084	1087	0	2171
9.	Ward No. 9	2118	1746	0	3864
10.	Ward No. 10	1494	1306	0	2800
11.	Ward No. 11	1239	1035	0	2274
12.	Ward No. 12	1153	934	0	2087
13.	Ward No. 13	1285	1130	0	2415
14.	Ward No. 14	829	727	0	1556
15.	Ward No. 15	1071	930	0	2001
16.	Ward No. 16	854	817	0	1771
Male					21170
Female					18520
Other					2
Total Voters					39692

Election schedule

On March 24, the Election commission of Nepal announced the election schedule for the local election.


S.N.	Activities	Date
1	Candidate nomination registration	2022 April 24-25
2	Publication of nominated candidate list	2022 April 25
3	Complaining against a candidate	2022 April 26
4	Scrutiny of nomination	2022 April 27-28
5	Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination	2022 April 28
6	Publication of final candidate list	2022 April 29
7	Provide election symbols to candidates	2022 April 30
8	Election day	2022 May 13
Date of Counting of Votes		Immediately after completion of election
Source: Election Commission of Nepal

Candidates

Mayor Candidates

Shambhu Prasad Yadav

Shambhu Prasad Yadav, the Mayor of Rajbiraj Municipilaty was elected in 2017.^[11] He was elected as a Mayor in local level elections from Rastriya Janata Party Nepal.^[12] After the merger of political parties, he joined People's Socialist Party, Nepal in 2020. He is now contesting for the Mayor's candidacy from Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) after resigning from his mayoral post.^[13]

Bhimraj Yadav

Bhimraj Yadav is the candidate from People's Socialist Party, Nepal. He was previously contested for the Mayor candidacy in 2017 local level election from Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal and lost by 15 votes.^[14] He was previously associated with Federation Of Contractors' Associations, Saptari.

Candidates list (Mayor and Deputy Mayor)

Key	Description
♔	denotes former Mayor
♕	denotes former Deputy Mayor

No.^[15]	Party	Mayor candidate	Deputy Mayor candidate
1.	CPN-MC	Shambhu Prasad Yadav	Pramila Kumari Sah
2.	PSP-N	Bhimraj Yadav	Ishrat Praveen
3.	Nepali Congress	Irshad Ansari	Sushila Yadav
4.	LSP-N	Dipendra Chaudhary	Sadhana Jha
5.	Janamat Party	Mamata Jha	Sadhana Das
6.	CPN-US	Nathuni Das	Mamata Chaudhary
7.	CPN-UML	Anil Jha	Sashita Kumari Dev
8.	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Umesh Prasad Sah	Sarita Jha
9.	Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party	Bhupendra Yadav	Bimala Devi Chaudhary

Candidate list (Ward Chairperson)

Key	Description
♔	denotes former Ward Chairperson

Party^[15]	Symbol	Ward Number (1-8)
Party^[15]	Symbol	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
CPN-MC		Gangaram Yadav	Chandan Kumar Yadav	Md. Irshad Ahmad	Akhtar Ali Miya	Sanjay Kumar Das	Prem Kumar Yadav	Subhash Chandra Yadav	Jay Narayan Mandal
PSP-N		Chandra Shekhar Chaudhary	Arun Kumar Yadav	Anil Kumar Das	Dinesh Kumar Sah	Bandhu Lal Das	Shiv Kumar Sah	Santosh Prasad Sah	Dev Narayan Gurmaita
Nepali Congress		Anand Kumar Jha	Shambhu Lal Dev	Ranjit Chaudhary	Prabhat Kumar Lalan	Samir Kumar Jha	Raj Kumar Chaudhary	Ghanshyam Sah	Kaushal Kumar Das
LSP-N		Satish Kumar Jha	Lalit Narayan Jha	Furqan Ahmed Khan	Ramasish Prasad Sah	Lalan Mishra	Sashi Kumar Chaudhary	Bijay Kumar Dev	Digambar Lal Sah
Janamat Party		Sandip Sharma	Sujit Kumar Mandal	-	Roshan Ansari	Roshan Bajpayee	Prakash Kumar Chaudhary	Manju Devi Sah	-
CPN-US		Rajesh Kumar Chaudhary	Shivnath Das	-	Dambar Narayan Das	Ramchandra Sah	Rajesh Kumar Chaudhary	Akhilesh Kumar Dev	Satish Kumar Dutta
CPN-UML		Kalim Miya	Dipendra Kumar Yadav	Md. Mukhtar	Mukhtar Aalam	Sanjiv Das	Dipak Kumar Das	Tribhuvan Yadav	Sunil Kumar Pariyar
Independent				Sudarshan Prasad Singh				Mangi Lal Nai
Party	Symbol	Ward Number (9-16)
Party	Symbol	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
CPN-MC		Shambhu Prasad Yadav	Gangaram Khang	Sanjay Kumar Yadav	Gopi Krishna Yadav	Yogendra Yadav	Upendra Sada	Santosh Kumar Yadav	Shailendra Kumar Dev
PSP-N		Jawahar Yadav	Sushil Kumar Das	Udit Narayan Yadav	Sanjiv Kumar Yadav	Bishnudev Yadav	Shobha Lal Mandal	Ram Prasad Yadav	Ram Akbal Yadav
Nepali Congress		Pradip Kumar Yadav	Rundi Yadav	Amarnath Yadav	Harihar Yadav	Suryanarayan Prasad Yadav	Satya Narayan Mandal	Umesh Prasad Yadav	Narendra Prasad Dev
LSP-N		Sitaram Yadav	Bishnu Kumar Rohita	Mahesh Prasad Sah	Anil Kumar Yadav	Jag Narayan Yadav	Magain Mandal	Om Narayan Sah	Buchai Das
Janamat Party		Tarakant Yadav	Mahendra Yadav	Sachhidanand Yadav	Pramod Kumar Rajak	Rajendra Prasad Yadav	Hare Krishna Mandal	Ram Babu Yadav	Gajendra Prasad Yadav
CPN-US		Chhote Lal Yadav	-	Rajendra Prasad Yadav	Ramchandra Yadav	Sukdev Yadav	-	Dalluram Mochi	Mahendra Prasad Dev
CPN-UML		Md. Jamir Ali	Bhupendra Prasad Yadav	Upendra Prasad Yadav	Satya Narayan Yadav	Bhupendra Yadav	Jagadish Mandal	Balram Yadav	Shivram Das

Voters turnout

The Election commission of Nepal has scheduled the polling time from early 7:00 am NST to 17:00 pm NST on 13 May 2022.^[16]^[17] There are total 27 polling stations and 52 voting booths in Rajbiraj municipal election.^[18]


Ward No.	Polling stations						Total Voters	Turnout	Turnout (%)
Ward No.	Name	Voters	Name	Voters	Name	Voters
Ward No. 1	Devkota School, Chanaura	2361	Primary School, Dumari			1389	3750	2900	77.44%
Ward No. 2	Primary School, Rajdevi					2522	2522	1597	63.32%
Ward No. 3	Kesho Anirudhhawati Secondary School					1510	1510	943	62.45%
Ward No. 4	Primary School, Centre No. 6					2152	2152	1521	70.71%
Ward No. 5	Public Bindeshwari School, Swarna Tole					1790	1790	1230	68.71%
Ward No. 6	Primary School, Thangachhi	1852	Bahira Baalak School			1881	3733	2616	70.07%
Ward No. 7	District Sports Office	1430	Primary School, Kharsal			1866	3296	2130	64.67%
Ward No. 8	Gharelu Office					2171	2171	1368	63.01%
Ward No. 9	Ward Office	1531	Primary School, Gadhiya	995	Healthpost Bhawan	1338	3864	2993	77.46%
Ward No. 10	Janak School, Biraul	1111	Primary School, Dighwa	1358	Primary School, Maitgadhi	331	2800	2190	78.60%
Ward No. 11	Primary School, Jhalahi	1402	Primary School, Pharseth			872	2274	1833	80.60%
Ward No. 12	Ward Office, Bisahariya					2087	2087	1789	78.82%
Ward No. 13	Mahabir School, Bisahariya	1418	Primary School, Bhelahi Piparahi			997	2415	1829	75.23%
Ward No. 14	Primary School, Parsahi					1556	1556	1235	79.36%
Ward No. 15	Basic School, Deuri	895	Janata Basic School, Musaharniya			1106	2001	1557	78.01%
Ward No. 16	Ward Office, Boriya	1311	Narendra Memorial School			460	1771	1341	75.58%
Total							39692	28682	72.65%
The number of total voters of Rajbiraj Municipality is updated on 27 March 2022.

Election day gallery

Polling booth
Peoples outside the polling booth
Voter
People outside the polling booth
A view of the polling booth
Voters are in queue

Results

Mayoral election

Mayoral elections result
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	People's Socialist Party, Nepal (2020)	Bhimraj Yadav	9,624	37.6%	+13.79%
	Maoist Centre	Shambhu Prasad Yadav	4,807	18.7%	−5.18%
	Congress	Irshad Ansari	4,576	17.8%	New
	Loktantrik Samajwadi	Dipendra Kumar Chaudhary	2,437	9.5%	New
	Unified Socialist	Nathuni Das	1,322	5.1%	New
	CPN (UML)	Anil Jha	1,288	5.0%	New
	Janamat	Mamata Jha	922	3.6%	New
	RPP	Umesh Prasad Sah	358	1.3%	New
	Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party (2021)	Bhupendra Yadav	107	0.4%	New
	Others		153	0.5%
Total votes			25,594	100.0%
	People's Socialist Party, Nepal (2020) hold

Deputy-Mayoral election

Deputy mayoral elections result
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	People's Socialist Party, Nepal (2020)	Ishrat Parvin	7,264	30.1%	*New*
	Congress	Sushila Kumari Yadav	4,427	18.3%	+7.4
	Maoist Centre	Pramila Kumari Sah	4,250	17.6%	New
	Loktantrik Samajwadi	Sadhana Jha	3,206	13.3%	−14.3%
	CPN (UML)	Sashila Kumari Dev	1,968	8.1%	New
	Janamat	Sadhana Das	1,203	4.9%	New
	Unified Socialist	Mamata Chaudhary	1,116	4.6%	−10.7
	RPP	Sarita Jha	386	1.6%	New
	Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party (2021)	Bimala Devi Chaudhary	139	0.5%	New
Total votes			23,959	100.0%
	People's Socialist Party, Nepal (2020) hold

Ward results

Party		Chairman	Members
	People's Socialist Party, Nepal	8	26
	CPN(Maoist Centre)	3	8
	Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal	2	7
	Communist Party of Nepal (UML)	1	1
	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)	1	4
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	1	3
	Nepali Congress	0	14
	Independent	0	1
Total		16	64

Ward wise electoral details

No.	Ward No.	Ward Chairman
1.	Ward No. 1	Chandra Shekhar Chaudhary	People's Socialist Party, Nepal
2.	Ward No. 2	Arun Kumar Yadav	People's Socialist Party, Nepal
3.	Ward No. 3	Anil Kumar Das 'Guddu'	People's Socialist Party, Nepal
4.	Ward No. 4	Dinesh Kumar Sah (Kasera)	People's Socialist Party, Nepal
5.	Ward No. 5	Bandhu Das	People's Socialist Party, Nepal
6.	Ward No. 6	Sashi Kumar Chaudhary	LSP-N
7.	Ward No. 7	Shubhash Chandra Yadav	CPN(MC)
8.	Ward No. 8	Jay Narayan Mandal	CPN(MC)
9.	Ward No. 9	Jawahar Yadav	People's Socialist Party, Nepal
10.	Ward No. 10	Gangaram Khang	CPN(MC)
11.	Ward No. 11	Udit Narayan Yadav	People's Socialist Party, Nepal
12.	Ward No. 12	Ramchandra Yadav	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)
13.	Ward No. 13	Trilokinath Chaudhary	Rastriya Prajatantra Party
14.	Ward No. 14	Jagadish Mandal	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
15.	Ward No. 15	Om Narayan Sah	LSP-N
16.	Ward No. 16	Ram Akwal Yadav	People's Socialist Party, Nepal

Summary of results by ward

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Ward Chairman
Ward Member 1
Ward Member 2
Female Member
Female Dalit Member
Source: Election Commission

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v t e 2022 Nepalese local elections
Metropolitan Cities	Bharatpur Biratnagar Birgunj Kathmandu Lalitpur Pokhara
Sub-metropolitan Cities	Butwal Dhangadhi Dharan Ghorahi Hetauda Itahari Janakpur Jitpursimara Kalaiya Nepalgunj Tulsipur
Municipalities	Rajbiraj