Dhawal Shamsher Rana Rastriya Prajatantra Party Prashant Bista Nepali Congress Municipal election for Nepalgunj took place on 13 May 2022, with all 117 positions up for election across 23 wards.

[3][4] Prashant Bista from Nepali Congress was elected as the mayor of the sub metropolitan city.

The sub-metropolitan city was created in 2014 by merging neighboring village development committees into Nepalgunj municipality.

[7] In the previous election previous mayor of the municipality Dhawal Shamsher Rana from Rastriya Prajatantra Party was elected as the first mayor of the sub-metropolitan city.

[8] He did not contest for re-election and instead announced his intention to run for the House of Representatives.