Independent election information · Nepal
Understand Nepal’s
elections.
आफ्ना प्रतिनिधि चिन्नुहोस्।
Explore archived candidates and vote results, understand how local elections work, and find official voter services. Clear source notes help you distinguish records, declarations and analysis.
Local elections
Your municipality. Your ward. Your next representatives. Understand the offices and prepare questions for the election closest to home.
Visit the local election hubInsights & explainers
Make sense of the promises and the numbers.
Who can fix a local problem? What does a budget figure mean? Start with these practical questions before your next conversation with a candidate.
Local government · 11 November 2026
What Can Your Mayor and Ward Chair Actually Do?
Understand what mayors, deputy mayors and ward chairs do in Nepal, with simple examples and questions to ask before voting in local elections.
Read the explainer →Local government · 11 November 2026
Your Municipality Has a Budget. What Do the Numbers Tell You?
Learn how to read a local budget in Nepal: find the right year, check units, compare allocations with spending, and ask better questions about projects.
Read the explainer →Local government · 11 November 2026
A Campaign Promise Sounds Good. What Should You Ask Next?
Compare local election promises in Nepal with simple questions about the work, funding, timetable and evidence. Learn what a campaign claim leaves unanswered.
Read the explainer →From the federal 2082 archive
Explore the story behind the vote totals.
A seat count shows who won. Margins show how close individual contests were. Our analysis connects those measures to the candidate records, with calculations you can inspect.
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Votes separated the closest contest
Okhaldhunga – 1: compare the elected candidate and the next highest vote total.
Open the constituency →13of 165
Contests decided by 1,000 votes or fewer
A descriptive cutoff for this snapshot, not an official election category or a prediction of future support.
See winning-margin analysis →Seat share and vote share answer different questions
Compare constituency victories with national PR list support. Read why the two ballots cannot be combined into one vote share.
Understand the calculation →Based on the Commission portal snapshot retrieved 21 October 2026. These are archived calculations, not live results or independently certified final declarations.
Preserved for perspective
Revisit the candidates and their records.
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Federal FPTP election
Revisit the candidates, parties and constituencies from the completed parliamentary election.
Local election schedules and candidate details will be added following official announcements.
Upcoming local elections in Nepal
Start with the election closest to home.
स्थानीय तह निर्वाचन: नगरपालिका र वडाका प्रतिनिधि
Local-election research starts with your municipality or rural municipality, your ward and the position being contested. These are different from the parliamentary constituencies in our federal archive.
We have not verified an official polling date for the upcoming local election. Use our guides to understand the races, find official voter services and decide what questions to ask candidates.
Visit the local-election hub →Mayor or chairperson
Municipalities elect a mayor; rural municipalities elect a chairperson. Compare candidates for the same office and area.
Deputy positions
Deputy mayor and vice-chairperson are separate contests. Research those candidates too.
Ward representatives
Ward voters elect a ward chairperson and ward members. Use your registered ward to identify relevant races.
Official voter services
Registration and voter-list lookup belong to the Election Commission. We do not collect your voter documents.
Reference: Local Level Election Act, 2073.
A practical research checklist
Look beyond the campaign slogan.
Pick an issue that matters to your community and ask every candidate in the same race how they would address it.
Start with the problem
Write down the issues your neighbourhood faces, such as unreliable water, unsafe roads or access to services. Compare what each candidate proposes for those same issues.
Ask how a promise will work
Look for a cost, a funding source, a timeline and the office responsible. A useful commitment explains how progress can be checked, not just what success might look like.
Check the record and the source
Separate a candidate’s own statements from independently documented work. A profile, a campaign claim and an official election result answer different questions.
Plan for accountability
Ask how residents will receive updates and raise concerns after the election. Keep a dated copy of public commitments so you can revisit them later.
Understand local elections
Learn how municipality and ward races differ, and turn public commitments into questions you can evaluate.
Read the local-election guide →Find official voter services
Find registration and voter-list services, check which election a list concerns, and protect your identity documents.
Read the voter-information guide →Different elections. Different questions.
Local elections concern municipalities and wards. The federal 2082 archive preserves an earlier parliamentary contest. A former parliamentary candidate is not automatically a candidate in the next local election.
Reading the archived results
FPTP votes belong to candidates in a constituency; PR votes belong to party lists. Vote share describes the relevant pool of votes. A winning margin compares the elected candidate with the next highest vote total. These measures should not be combined into one vote count.
Explore the sourced 2082 results →Know where information comes from.
NirvachanZHub is independent of the Election Commission. Profiles use election records and candidate declarations; results use a dated Commission portal snapshot. Candidate-declared qualifications are not independently verified credentials.
An “Elected” badge identifies a result in that snapshot. Missing information is labeled as unavailable. Source links let you follow the underlying record.
Election information: common questions
When is the next local election in Nepal?
We have not verified an official polling date for the upcoming local election. Check Election Commission notices for the latest schedule. We will publish a date here only with a supporting official announcement.
Are upcoming local-election candidates listed here?
Not yet. The candidates currently in our archive belong to the federal election 2082. They should not be interpreted as confirmed candidates for the next local election.
Can I register to vote on NirvachanZHub?
No. Registration and voter-list services are provided by the Election Commission. Our voter-information guide links you to those official services; we do not collect registration documents.
Are the archived vote counts official final certificates?
Our figures are sourced from the Commission’s results portal and preserved with a retrieval date. They are portal snapshots, not independently certified final declarations. FPTP candidate votes and PR party-list votes are presented separately.
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