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.

Next Mongolian parliamentary election
Mongolia
June 2024

126 seats in the State Great Khural[1] 
64 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader Current seats
MPP Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene 62
DP Luvsannyamyn Gantömör 12
Our Coalition Nambaryn Enkhbayar 0
HUN Party Togmidyn Dorjkhand 1
Independents 1
Incumbent Prime Minister
Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene
MPP

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
Elected[2] Current Change
MPP 62 62 Steady
DP 11 12 Increase 1
Our Coalition (Mongolia) 1 0 Decrease 1
NLP 1 1 Steady
Independent 1 1 Steady
Total 76 76 Steady
Voting total 76 76 Steady
Vacant N/A N/A Steady
Government majority 62 62 Steady

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
Sant Maral 18 Mar16 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

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