Local Elections
The coalition government of the CPN (UML) and the RPP successfully conducted the elections for the local bodies, i.e. the Village Development Committees, Municipalities and District Development Committees. The CPN (UML) won the 51.02 percent Village Development Committees, 56 percent Municipalities and over 80 percent District Development Committees. The Party won total 93899 seats out of total 188010 seats of local bodies throughout the country. This is a remarkable victory won by the Party. Previously the Nepali Congress had won 50614 seats in the local elections held in 1992, which represents 50.14 percent of the total seats. With these election results, the CPN (UML) has become the largest party both in the parliament and local bodies of the government.