2022 Pokhara municipal election

Municipal election for Pokhara took place on 13 May 2022, with all 167 positions up for election across 33 wards. The electorate elected a mayor, a deputy mayor, 33 ward chairs and 132 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.

Dhanraj Acharya of CPN (Unified Socialist) was elected mayor of Pokhara Metropolitan city.

Background
Pokhara was established in 1962 as a municipality. The metropolitan city was created in 2017 by incorporating neighboring village development committees and Lekhnath municipality into Pokhara sub-metropolitan city. 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.

In the previous election, Man Bahadur GC from CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) was elected as the first mayor of the metropolitan city.

Ward results


! colspan="2" style="text-align:centre;" | Party ! Chairman ! Members ! colspan="2" style="text-align:right;" | Total ! 33 ! 132
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 * style="text-align:left;" |Nepali Congress
 * style="text-align:center;" | 23
 * style="text-align:center;" | 56
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 * style="text-align:left;" |CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
 * style="text-align:center;" | 9
 * style="text-align:center;" | 76
 * style="background-color:;" |
 * style="text-align:left;" |Independent
 * style="text-align:center;" | 1
 * style="text-align:center;" | 0
 * style="text-align:left;" |Independent
 * style="text-align:center;" | 1
 * style="text-align:center;" | 0
 * }

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 using single non-transferable vote.