KATHMANDU, July 27: In the local elections held on May 13 this year, Rs 284 was spent per voter, according to the Election Commission (EC). The cost is less than that borne in the local level election of 2017. The expenses for elections seem to have been slightly lesser as they were held in one phase instead of two or three phases.

KATHMANDU, July 9: A meeting of the CPN (Maoist Center) Standing Committee has formed a three-member committee to investigate the fraud in the local elections.

KATHMANDU, July 1: The Election Commission (EC) has reviewed the May 13 local level election.

Nonpartisan local elections are desirable for several reasons. The main ones being that the locally-elected leaders are directly implementing location-specific programs while being close to the residents of their jurisdictions.

KATHMANDU, June 4: CPN (Unified Socialist) has made a preliminary conclusion that alliance partners were not honest enough during the recently-held local government elections.

KATHMANDU, May 26: The Social Media Sites Monitoring Committee of the Election Commission (EC) has reviewed the use of social sites and digital media during the local level elections held on May 13.

DANG, May 25: CPN-UML candidates Tikaram Khadka and Syani Chaudhary have been elected as the mayor and deputy mayor of Tulsipur Sub-metropolis, respectively, of Dang. Khadka won against his closest rival from the ruling coalition Gehendra Giri of Nepali Congress (NC) with 39,408 votes while Giri had received 27,717 votes.

KATHMANDU, May 13: Local level election is being held today.

KATHMANDU, May 9: Election Commission (EC) has sought clarification from five journalists for violating election code of conduct.

KATHMANDU, May 6: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the authorities concerned to take strict action as per the prevailing law if civil servants refused to work diligently for the local level election to be held on May 13.

KATHMANDU, May 4: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the candidates and political parties to spend through the banking system in the local elections.

MAKWANPUR, May 4: The Office of the Chief Returning Officer in Hetauda has sought a 24-hour clarification from some government employees for taking part in election campaigns of political parties, violating the election code of conduct.

KATHMANDU, May 1: Ballot papers for the May 13 local polls remain to be dispatched to only 17 districts so far.

KATHMANDU, April 22: The Election Commission has clarified that there would be no addition or changes in the voters' list which was already updated.

MORANG, April 13: Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya said that the May 13 local election would be held on the stipulated date.

KATHMANDU, March 15: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed the ceiling for an election campaign expenses by a candidate for the upcoming local elections at a maximum of Rs 750,000.

KATHMANDU, March 15: The Election Commission has approved the Local-Level Election Observation Guidelines and Financial Management Procedure-2078 for the local-level election scheduled for May 13.

JANAKPURDHAM, March 11: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that his party will go to the polls by forging an alliance with the ruling coalition parties. He said that in the current situation, any party that goes to the polls won’t get a majority because of which discussions are underway to maintain the current alliance till the polls.

KATHMANDU, Feb 25: The CPN-UML has registered the party at the Election Commission (EC) for the purpose of participating in the upcoming local-level polls.

BUTWAL, Feb 6: Deputy General Secretary of the CPN (UML) Pradeep Gywali has stressed exerting pressure on the government to announce the date for local level elections.

KATHMANDU, Feb 2: The Election Commission (EC) has proposed to the government to hold the local polls in one phase on May 18.

KATHMANDU, Jan 30: Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) gained a whopping 105.55 points on Sunday after the political parties reached consensus to hold the elections of local governments by mid-June this year.

KATHMANDU, Jan 30: Lawyers have demanded that the government and the Election Commission hold the local elections on time.

KATHMANDU, Jan 28: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has urged Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to hold local elections as per the provisions of the constitution and relevant laws.

KATHMANDU, Jan 18: Leaders of the ruling alliance have agreed to hold local elections in April. A meeting of the alliance was held at the Prime Minister's Residence in Baluwatar this morning to discuss the upcoming local elections.

SRINAGAR, India, Dec 23: An alliance of political parties opposed to India’s policies in Kashmir has won a majority of seats in local elections, the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region’s semiautonomous status and took direct control last year.

For nearly last two years after the local elections were held in 2017 to bring governance to the people’s doorsteps, Nepal’s local governance system has largely earned a bad fame.

SINDHULI, Nov 21: Before the local elections, there were only half a dozen sand processing plants in various wards of Sunkoshi Rural Municipality. It has just been a year since the elections but around a dozen more such plants have already been opened here.

KATHMANDU, Sept 9: A year has passed since local elections took place in most of the provinces. During this period, countless reports have surfaced about local representatives enmeshed in disputes, abuse of power, corruption, and chaotic offices. Amid these clouds of gloom are a few silver linings.