2020 Mongolian legislative election
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76 seats in the State Great Khural 39 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Mongolia on 24 June 2020.[1][2] The result was a victory for the ruling Mongolian People's Party, which won 62 of the 76 seats, a slight decrease from the 65 won in the 2016 elections.
Electoral system[]
The 76 members of the State Great Khural will be elected by plurality-at-large voting in multi-member constituencies. The electoral system was not decided until a new electoral law was passed on 22 December 2019.[3] The changes were expected to marginalise smaller parties, and also effectively removed the right of 150,000 Mongolian expatriates to vote, as they could not be registered in a specific constituency.[3][4] The new electoral law also barred people found guilty of "corrupt practices" from standing in elections.[3]
Women's right activists called for raising gender quota for nominations from 20% to 30% but they failed.[5] Currently, female legislators make up 17% (13 seats) in the parliament, the highest number since the first democratic elections in 1990.
Parties and coalitions[]
606 candidates are officially registered by the General Election Committee of Mongolia running for the election, of whom 121 are independents and 485 candidates from following 13 political parties and 4 coalitions:[6]
- Mongolian People's Party
- Democratic Party
- Mongolian Green Party
- Our Coalition (Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, Civil Will–Green Party, Mongolian Traditional United Party)
- New Coalition (Citizen’s Coalition for Justice Party, Mongolian Republican Party, Truth and Right Party, Mongolian National Democratic Party)
- Right Person Electorate Coalition (National Labour Party, Mongolian Social Democratic Party, Justice Party)
- People's Party
- Freedom for People Party
- Development Program Party
- United Patriots Party
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Multiple candidates were arrested during the election campaign. Among them, two were running from the governing MPP, three were candidates of the opposition DP[7] and one was a candidate of the Keep Order! Constitution 19 Coalition.
Opinion polls[]
Date | Pollster | MPP | DP | RP | Other | Undecided | No party | ||
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June 2020 | Sant Maral | 45.2% | 29.4% | 14.0% | 8.7% | 2.7% | — | — | — |
Results[]
The Mongolian People's Party won with a supermajority of 62 seats, a slight drop from the 65 won in the prior elections. The centre-right Democratic Party won 11 seats. The candidate of , former State Great Khural member and vice chairperson of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party Sainkhüügiin Ganbaatar, won a seat, as did candidate of the Right Person Electorate Coalition and Chairperson of the National Labour Party . Former Prime Minister of Mongolia Norovyn Altankhuyag won one seat as an Independent candidate.[8]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Mongolian People's Party | 1,795,793 | 44.93 | 62 | –3 | |
Democratic Party | 978,890 | 24.49 | 11 | +2 | |
Our Coalition | 323,675 | 8.10 | 1 | 0 | |
United Coalition of Just Citizens | 213,812 | 5.35 | 0 | New | |
Right Person Electorate Coalition | 209,104 | 5.23 | 1 | New | |
Keep Order! Constitution 19 Coalition | 41,417 | 1.04 | 0 | New | |
Mongolian Green Party | 23,473 | 0.59 | 0 | 0 | |
Love the People Party | 18,542 | 0.46 | 0 | 0 | |
People's Majority Party | 13,720 | 0.34 | 0 | New | |
Zon Olny Nam | 8,710 | 0.22 | 0 | – | |
Freedom Implementing Party | 5,142 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | |
Ger Area Development Party | 4,176 | 0.10 | 0 | New | |
Ikh Ev Nam | 4,118 | 0.10 | 0 | New | |
Development Programme Party | 3,521 | 0.09 | 0 | New | |
People's Party | 3,333 | 0.08 | 0 | New | |
World Mongols Party | 591 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
United Patriots Party | 448 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
Independents | 348,078 | 8.71 | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 3,996,543 | 100.00 | 76 | 0 | |
Total votes | 1,475,895 | – | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 2,003,969 | 73.65 | |||
Source: General Election Committee of Mongolia, Ikon |
References[]
- ^ Mongolia: Election for Ulsyn Ikh Khural (Mongolian State Great Hural) IFES
- ^ "2020 Race Begins". Mongolia Weekly. Jan 19, 2020. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
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- ^ Mongolia's new election rules handicap smaller parties, clear way for two-horse race Archived 2016-07-01 at the Wayback Machine Reuters, 20 May 2016
- ^ "Post". Mongolia Weekly. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
- ^ "606 candidates confirmed to run for 2020 parliamentary election". MONTSAME News Agency. 2020-06-02. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
- ^ Dugersuren, Sukhgerel (June 22, 2020). "Can Mongolia's elections shun democratic backsliding?".
- ^ "2020 Election: Ruling Mongolian People's Party wins 62 of 76 parliament seats". MONTSAME News Agency. 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
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