2007 Kazakh legislative election

none 2007 Kazakh legislative election Kazakhstan legislative 2004 Kazakh legislative election 2004 no 18 August 2007 2012 Kazakh legislative election 2012 98 of the 107 seats in the Mäjilis 54 8,891,561 68.4% ( 11.9pp) 150x150px Nursultan Nazarbayev Nur Otan 1 March 1999 57 seatsIn the 2004 elections, Otan won 42 seats, an alliance of the Agrarian Party and Civic Party won 11 seats and Asar won four seats. The parties merged to form Nur Otan in 2006. 98 41 5,247,720 88.4% 1CA9C9 150x150px Alikhan Baimenov Aq Jol 13 March 2005 1 seat 0 1 183,346 3.1% 0A408A Chairman Oral Muhamedjanov Nur Otan Aslan Musin Nur Otan Legislative elections were held in Kazakhstan on 18 August 2007 to elected. President Nursultan Nazarbayev's ruling Nur Otan party received 88% of the vote and won all of the available seats (excluding the reserved 9-seat quota for the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan), as none of the six other parties contesting the election had managed to pass the 7% electoral threshold to win seats.Party of Kazakh President Sweeps Seats in Parliament The New York Times, 20 August 2007Kazakh poll gives all seats to Nazarbayev https://web.archive.org/web/20070930212516/http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2878772.ece 2007-09-30 Reuters, 20 August 2007 Background On 19 June 2007 50 of the 77 deputies of the Mäjilis voted to request President Nursultan Nazarbayev for the legislature to be dissolved after a ruling by the Constitutional Council from 18 June that the Mäjilis can dissolve itself only with the permission of the president despite the Kazakh Constitution allowing the parliament to do so in a motion of no confidence. Nazarbayev accepted the request that same day and the Mäjilis was officially dissolved on 20 June. The move was criticized by several prominent opposition activists such as the chairman of Nationwide Social Democratic Party, Zharmakhan Tuyakbay, who claimed that the a snap election gave little time to prepare for the polling day.Kazakh President Dissolves Parliament https://www.rferl.org/a/1077230.html RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty en 2020-05-01 Electoral system A total of 107 seats were at stake in the Majilis, an increase of 30, following constitutional amendments earlier in the year.Kazakhstan set to hold early poll BBC News, 20 June 2007 Under the changes, 98 deputies were elected by party lists, an increase from just 10 in the previous parliament. The remaining nine seats were reserved for members elected by the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan.Kazakhstan's political parties gear up for early elections https://web.archive.org/web/20140304032450/http://eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav062007a.shtml 2014-03-04 EurasiaNet, 20 June 2007 Conduct The opposition Nationwide Social Democratic Party, which received almost 5% of the vote, denounced the election, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe observers said the election showed some progress, but was also marred by problems, saying that "in over 40 percent of the polling stations visited, [vote counting] was described as bad or very bad", which was worse than in the last parliamentary and presidential elections. Bias in the state media was also considered a problem. Results File:Kazakhstan_Majilis_2007.svg Nur Otan 5247720 98 +41In the 2004 elections, Otan won 42 seats, an alliance of the Agrarian Party and Civic Party won 11 seats and Asar won four seats. The parties merged to form Nur Otan in 2006. Nationwide Social Democratic Party 269310 0 New Aq Jol 183346 0 –1 Auyl Kazakh Social Democratic Party 89855 0 0 Communist People's Party 76799 0 0 Party of Patriots 46436 0 0 Rukhaniyat Party 22159 0 0 Members elected by the Assembly of People 9 New +30 146805 8891561 Adam Carr, IPU Notes References External links Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan https://archive.today/20140224204410/http://election.kz/portal/page?_pageid=153,1891575&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL Elections of the Majilis 2007 el Official CEC website Kazakhstan Legislative Category:Legislative elections in Kazakhstan Category:August 2007 elections