2021 Nur-Sultan City Mäslihat election

Elections to the Nur-Sultan City Mäslihat were held on 10 January 2021 to elect 31 councillors of the Nur-Sultan City Mäslihat. This is the first time that the MP's would be chosen by party-list proportional representation.

2021 Nur-Sultan City Mäslihat election
Astana
10 January 2021

All 31 seats in the Nur-Sultan City Mäslihat
16 seats needed for a majority
Turnout44.86%
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
Nur Otan Altai Kólginov 83.61% 26 New
Ak Zhol Asqar Smagulov 7.44% 3 New
People's Party Nurdaulet Orazhanov 7.41% 2 New
Secretary before
Janat Nurpeiisov

The Nur Otan won a majority of 26 out of 31 seats in the City Mäslihat.[1]

Background

Following the 2016 City Mäslihat elections, all the contested seats in the Mäslihat was won by Nur Otan members. Despite the race being non-partisan, many independent candidates complained about being barred from running due to alleged "inconsistency of the data in the tax returns".[2]

After President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced constitutional reforms in 2017 which would give lawmakers more power and decentralize the government, an amendment was passed by the Parliament which would allow for local elections to the Mäslihats be more partisan, thus giving greater role for political parties to nominate its candidates.[3] However this made practically impossible for self-nominated independent candidates to be compete in the elections since the law requires all Mäslihat councillors to be part of political parties.[4]

Electoral system

The City Mäslihat councillors are directly elected through proportional representation for a 5-year term and must win the 7% electoral threshold to win any seats. If only one party manages to pass the threshold, then the other party with the second most received votes is awarded enough seats to have representations in the City Mäslihat.[4]

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Nur Otan239,89883.6126+26
Ak Zhol Democratic Party21,3387.443+3
People's Party21,2517.412+2
Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party2,8140.9800
Adal1,6190.5600
Total286,920100.00310
Valid votes286,92093.96
Invalid/blank votes18,4576.04
Total votes305,377100.00
Registered voters/turnout680,70544.86
Source: Vechastana.kz
Popular vote
Nur Otan
83.61%
Ak Zhol
7.44%
QHP
7.41%
Auyl
0.98%
Adal
0.56%
City Mäslihat seats
Nur Otan
83.87%
Ak Zhol
9.67%
QHP
6.45%
Auyl
0%
Adal
0%

References

  1. INFORM.KZ (2021-01-12). "Три партии прошли в маслихат Нур-Султана". www.inform.kz (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  2. "Нуротановцы заняли все вакантные места в столичном маслихате". informburo.kz (in Russian). 2016-03-24. Archived from the original on 2016-03-27. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  3. Abdurasulov, Abdujalil (2017-03-06). "Kazakhstan constitution: Will changes bring democracy?". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  4. "Незаметные маслихаты - Аналитический интернет-журнал Vласть". vlast.kz (in Russian). 2019-08-16. Archived from the original on 2020-08-08. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
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