All 98 seats in the Mäjilis 50 seats needed for a majority
Registered
12,035,578
Turnout
54.21% ( 9.04pp)
Majority party
Minority party
Third party
Leader
Erlan Qoşanov
Äli Bektaev
Aidarbek Qojanazarov
Party
Amanat
Auyl
Respublica
Last election
71.09%, 76 seats
5.29%, 0 seats
Did not exist
Seats won
62
8
6
Seat change
14
8
New
Popular vote
3,431,510
693,938
547,154
Percentage
53.90%
10.90%
8.59%
Swing
17.19pp
5.61pp
New
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Azat Peruashev
Ermūhamet Ertısbaev
Ashat Raqymjanov
Party
Aq Jol
QHP
JSDP
Last election
10.95%, 12 seats
9.10%, 10 seats
Boycotted
Seats won
6
5
4
Seat change
6
5
4
Popular vote
535,139
432,920
331,058
Percentage
8.41%
6.80%
5.20%
Swing
2.54pp
2.30pp
5.20pp
Results by region
Prime Minister before election
Älihan Smaiylov
Amanat
Elected Prime Minister
Älihan Smaiylov
Amanat
Politics of Kazakhstan
CIS member state
Constitution
Human rights
President (list)
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Prime Minister
Oljas Bektenov
Security Council
Chairman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Parliament
Senate
Chairman Mäulen Äşimbaev
Mäjilis
Chairman Erlan Qoşanov
Political parties
Recent elections
Presidential
2015
2019
2022
Parliamentary
2016
2021
2023
Administrative divisions
Regions (oblıstar)
Districts (audandar)
Foreign relations
Visa policy
Other countries
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Snap legislative elections were held in Kazakhstan on 19 March 2023 to elect the members of the Mäjilis.[1][2] This was the ninth legislative election since Kazakhstan's independence in 1991 and the first snap election for the Mäjilis seats since 2016. It was held alongside the local assembly elections.[3]
At the September 2022 State of the Nation Address, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced snap legislative elections to take place in the first half of 2023 in the aftermath of deadly unrest in January 2022.[4] During that time, a series of laws and amendments were approved following the 2022 constitutional referendum, which aimed to reform Kazakhstan's political system by granting more parliamentary powers to the lower chamber Mäjilis as well as for its mandate seats to be allocated via mixed electoral system for the first time since 2004.[5] Following Tokayev's reelection win in the 2022 presidential election, he signed a presidential decree on 19 January 2023 in dissolving the 7th Mäjilis and setting the date for the snap legislative election to take place in March 2023.[6][7][8]
A total of seven parties contested the election, including the newly registered parties of Respublica and Baytaq, as well as an overwhelming number of independent candidates participating in electoral districts.[9][10] Campaigning centered on political and socioeconomic issues such as regional development, national security, agricultural land nationalisation, education, workers' salaries, environmental problems and protection for the Aral Sea and Syr Darya.[11][12]
Several independent opposition candidates under the pressure of the Kazakh government were excluded from the ballots due to alleged claims of election law violations during the campaigning period.[13]
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