The 2017 Municipal election for Rajbiraj was held on 18 September 2017, to elect a mayor, a deputy mayor, sixteen ward chairperson and ward members. All positions were elected for a period of five years. A secondary election was held for the municipal executives which elected five women from the elected ward members and three members from the Dalit and minority community. The electorate for this election was for the 82 members chosen by direct election. Rastriya Janata Party Nepal mayoral candidate Shambhu Prasad Yadav was elected as a Mayor of Rajbiraj by securing 4,774 votes.
Background The last municipal elections were held in 53 municipalities on 8 February 2006 under regime of King Gyanendra but were boycotted by the major political parties and saw low voter turnout.Later, the 2006 municipal election was nullified and declared illegitimate by the political parties and other states.Therefore, the last local elections was held in 1997. Since then, the municipality has been without an elected executive. 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.
Voters Election Commission of Nepal is the responsible body to update and publish the final electoral rolls before the election in Nepal. The election commission had published the final voter list for the local level election on 20 August, 2017. There is a total of 32,035 registered voters who can cast their vote in Rajbiraj municipal election. The electoral details for the 2017 Rajbiraj municipal election: MenWomenThird genderTotal1502817005232035
Election schedule On 5 September 2017, the Election commission of Nepal announced the election schedule for the local election. +S.N.ActivitiesDate1Candidate nomination registration2017 September 062Publication of nominated candidate list2017 September 063Complaining against a candidate2017 September 074Scrutiny of nomination2017 September 07-085Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination2017 September 086Publication of final candidate list2017 September 087Provide election symbols to candidates2017 September 098Election day2017 September 18Date of Counting of VotesImmediately after completion of electionSource: Election Commission of Nepal
Issues Urban Planning & Development Sanitation Women Safety
Candidates Mayor Candidates Shambhu Prasad Yadav Shambhu Prasad Yadav, a builder and politician is contesting for the Mayoral post in local level elections from Rastriya Janata Party Nepal.
Bhimraj Yadav Bhimraj Yadav is one of the popular builder, social activist and politician from Rajbiraj, is the candidate from Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal
Anish Ansari Anish Ansari, former state minister and mayor is the candidate from CPN-MC.
Sailesh Chaudhary Sailesh Kumar Chaudhary is former mayor of Rajbiraj Municipality is the candidate from Nepal Loktantrik Forum.
Voters turnout The Election commission of Nepal has scheduled the polling time from early 7:00 am NST to 17:00 pm NST on 18 September 2017. There are total 27 polling stations and 46 voting booths in Rajbiraj municipal election.
Results
Mayoral election
Deputy-Mayoral election
Ward results Summary of Partywise Ward chairman and Ward member seats won, 2017 Party Chairman MembersRastriya Janata Party Nepal 5 22Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal 4 19CPN (MC) 4 8Nepali Congress 1 9CPN (UML) 0 3Nepal Loktantrik Forum 0 3Independent politician 2 0 Total 16 64
Ward wise elected chairman details No.Ward No.Ward ChairmanPolitical Party1.Ward No. 1Chandra Shekhar ChaudharyRastriya Janata Party Nepal2.Ward No. 2Arun Kumar YadavFederal Socialist Forum, Nepal3.Ward No. 3Sudarshan Prasad SinghIndependent politician4.Ward No. 4Akhtar Ali MiyaCPN (Maoist Center)5.Ward No. 5Samir Kumar JhaNepali Congress6.Ward No. 6Prem Kumar YadavCPN (Maoist Center)7.Ward No. 7Mangi Lal NaiIndependent politician8.Ward No. 8Jay Narayan MandalCPN (Maoist Center)9.Ward No. 9Shambhu Prasad YadavRastriya Janata Party Nepal10.Ward No. 10Sushil Kumar DasRastriya Janata Party Nepal11.Ward No. 11Sanjay Kumar YadavCPN (Maoist Center)12.Ward No. 12Harihar YadavFederal Socialist Forum, Nepal13.Ward No. 13Rajendra Prasad YadavFederal Socialist Forum, Nepal14.Ward No. 14Shobha Lal MandalRastriya Janata Party Nepal15.Ward No. 15Ram Prasad YadavFederal Socialist Forum, Nepal16.Ward No. 16Buchai DasRastriya Janata Party Nepal
See also 2017 Nepalese local elections 2017 Lalitpur municipal election 2017 Kathmandu municipal election
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