ASTANA (Correspondent London Post )Six of the seven parties that took part in the March 19 elections won seats in the lower house of the Kazakhstan parliament, according to the final results announced by the Central Election Commission (CEC) at its meeting on March 27. Elected to a certain Majlis.
These six parties received enough votes to clear the 5% threshold required to win a seat in parliament.
The Amanat Party won the majority with 53.9% or 3,431,510 votes, the Auyl People’s Patriotic Democratic Party won 10.9% or 693,938 votes, the Respublica Party won 8.59% or 547,154 votes and the Aq Jol Democratic Party won 8.41% or 535,139 votes. Earned. Kazakh People’s Party – 6.8% or 432,920 votes, National Social Democratic Party – 5.2% or 331,058 votes.
Baytaq received only 2.3%. Nearly 3.9%, or 248,291 voters, chose the “against all” option when voting. Based on these results, the Amanat Party will occupy 40 seats in Majlis, the Awil Party 8 seats, the Republican Party 6 seats, the People’s Party 5 seats, the Ak-Jor Party 6 seats, and the National Social Democratic Party 6 seats. become. – 4 seats.
Some 6,366,441 out of over 12 million eligible voters turned out in his March 19 Majlis and Maslihat (local representative bodies) elections, showing a turnout of over 54%.
The March 19 elections were held under new rules stemming from a constitutional amendment passed last year.
In January, 20 delegates from 17 regions and cities in Astana, Almaty and Shymkent were elected to the upper house of Kazakhstan’s parliament.
