2.2 The Local Assemblies

The local level's design (753 local bodies): the six metropolitan, 11 sub-metropolitan, 276 municipalities and 460 rural municipalities — each with the ward structure (each ward: the ward chair + 4 members, of whom at least 2 women — the single-ballot ward election) and the executive (the mayor/chair and deputy by FPTP; the executive committee's quota members — the women's and Dalit/minority seats per the Constitution's local-executive articles). The process: the Local Level Election Act 2073's machinery — the ward's single ballot (the party panels), the executives' FPTP races, the quotas' implementation (the seats' reservation mechanics); the local disputes' route (the chief-and-deputy results' challenges to the Commission- and-courts per the statute). The local election's significance (the exam's paragraph): the federalism's base — the 2017 local elections as the republic's first local polls in two decades; the women's entry (the ward quotas' thousands of elected women).