2017 Lalitpur municipal election

2017 Lalitpur municipal elections
147 seats to Lalitpur Metropolitan City Council; 74 seats needed for a majority
	Council control after election ; Nepali Congress; Chiri Babu Maharjan; Elected Mayor;

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]

Background[edit]

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[edit]

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 votes			14,100	15.80
Total			89,214	100
Registered voters/turnout			112,923	79.00

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 votes			29,396	32.95
Total			89,214	100
Registered voters/turnout			112,923	79.00

Ward Results[edit]

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[edit]

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

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

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