Ram Bahadur Baniya of the CPN-UML defeated Rang Bahadur Khati of Nepali Congress with 4777 votes for the post of mayor. His rival Khati received 3774 votes in the election.

Similarly, UML’s Mayakumari Khadka defeated Nepali Congress’ Rita Shahi for the post of deputy chief of the municipality with 4727 votes. Shahi got 3755 votes.

UML has won in wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 and 10 of the municipality along with the panel while Nepali congress has won in wards 7 and 8.

The re-election was held in the municipality on July 7 after the election was rigged on May 13. There were 13,659 voters in Budhiganga and 9,128 votes were casted during the re-elction.