Next Mongolian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Mongolia no later than June 2024 to determine the composition of the State Great Khural.
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126 seats in the State Great Khural[1] 64 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Background
The next election is scheduled to be held no later than June 2024. The current government's legitimacy was questioned during the 2022 protests after a corruption scandal involving the theft of $12.9 billion worth of coal.
The result of the 2020 parliamentary elections and members in the State Great Khural is given below.
Affiliation | Members | |||
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Elected[2] | Current | Change | ||
MPP | 62 | 62 | ||
DP | 11 | 12 | 1 | |
Our Coalition (Mongolia) | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
NLP | 1 | 1 | ||
Independent | 1 | 1 | ||
Total | 76 | 76 | ||
Voting total | 76 | 76 | ||
Vacant | N/A | N/A | ||
Government majority | 62 | 62 |
Following the Mongolian Constitutional Court's in August 2022, to cancel the provision of Article 39, Section 1 of the Constitution, which states that "Prime Minister and no more than four members of the and the Government can hold the office of the member of the State Great Khural". On the opening of the 2022 spring extraordinary session, chairman of the State Great Khural, G. Zandanshatar stated that "In this regard, it is believed that there is a need to discuss and resolve the issues related to the number of members of parliament, the competence of the executive branch, the control and balance of governance, and the development of parliamentary democracy by establishing a National Consensus Working Group and discussing and resolving the issue".
State Great Khural passed a constitutional amendment on 2 June 2023, increasing the number of parliament members from 76 to 126.[3]
Electoral system
By new legislative law, elections in Mongolia will be organized using mixed-member majoritarian representation: 78 seats will be elected using majoritarian system, 48 seats will be elected by closed list proportional representation. The electoral threshold for the party will be 3% if the new election law would pass.[4]
Opinion polls
Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size |
MPP | DP | MPRP | HUN | Other | Ind. | None | Und./NA/ DK |
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Sant Maral | 18 Mar – 16 Apr 2023 | 1,000 | 13.6 | 10.7 | – | 2.3 | 1.4 | – | 6.7 | 65.3 |
Sant Maral | 3 May – 10 Jun 2022 | 1,200 | 21.4 | 10.2 | – | 3.1 | 0.3 | – | 3.7 | 61.4 |
28 May 2021 | Merger of MPP and MPRP | |||||||||
Sant Maral | 1–16 Apr 2021 | 1,210 | 20.7 | 9.7 | 2.4 | 3.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 4.4 | 58.4 |
2020 election | 24 Jun 2020 | – | 44.9 | 24.5 | 8.1 | 5.2 | 8.5 | 8.7 | – | – |
References
- "The Parliament approved the draft amendment to the Constitution to have 126 members and hold elections in a mixed system". ikon. 2023-05-31.
- "Election 2020: Results". ikon (in Mongolian).
- B., Ooluun (2 June 2023). "Number of Parliament Members to be Raised to 126". Montsame.
- "A consolidated draft of the Law on Amendments to the Law on Parliamentary Elections was discussed". ikon. 16 March 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2023.