Elections in Mongolia

Summary

Mongolia elects its head of state—the President of Mongolia—at the national level. The president is elected for a six-year term by the people, using the Two-round system. The State Great Khural (Ullsyn Ikh Khural, State Great Assembly) has 76 members, originally elected for a four-year term from single-seat constituencies. Due to the voting system, Mongolia experienced extreme shifts in the composition of the parliament after the 1996, 2000, and 2004 elections, so it has changed to a more proportional system in which some seats are filled on the basis of votes for local candidates, and some on the basis of nationwide party preference totals. Beginning in 2008, local candidates were elected from 26 electoral districts. Beginning with the 2012 elections, a parallel system was enacted, combining a district part and a nationwide proportional part. 48 seats are chosen at the local level in 26 districts with 1-3 seats using Plurality-at-large voting. 28 seats are chosen from nationwide closed party lists using the Largest remainder method. In the district seats, a candidate is required to get at least 28% of the vote cast in a district to be elected. If there are seats that are not filled due to this threshold, a runoff election is held in the respective district with twice the number of representatives as there are seats to be filled, between the top vote-getters of the first round.[1][2]

Dominant parties are the Mongolian People's Party (MPP), the Democratic Party (DP or AH), the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) and the Civil Will-Green Party (CWGP). In the 2012 legislative elections, the MPRP and Mongolian National Democratic Party ran together as the Justice Coalition, winning 11 seats.

Latest elections edit

2021 presidential election edit

Polls opened at 07:00 in 2,087 polling stations across the country for the 2.1 million registered voters, with special measures in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia. Voting ended at 22:00. Khürelsükh and Erdene voted in Ulaanbaatar while Enkhbat tested positive for COVID-19 and voted in hospital.[3]

CandidatePartyVotes%
Ukhnaagiin KhürelsükhMongolian People's Party823,32672.02
Dangaasürengiin EnkhbatRight Person Electorate Coalition246,96821.60
Sodnomzunduin ErdeneDemocratic Party72,8326.37
Total1,143,126100.00
Valid votes1,143,12694.08
Invalid/blank votes71,9375.92
Total votes1,215,063100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,049,37959.29
Source: GEC, IFES

2020 legislative election edit

 
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Mongolian People's Party1,795,79344.9362–3
Democratic Party978,89024.4911+2
Our Coalition323,6758.1010
United Coalition of Just Citizens213,8125.350New
Right Person Electorate Coalition209,1045.231New
Keep Order! Constitution 19 Coalition41,4171.040New
Mongolian Green Party23,4730.5900
Love the People Party18,5420.4600
People's Majority Party13,7200.340New
Zon Olny Nam8,7100.220
Freedom Implementing Party5,1420.1300
Ger Area Development Party4,1760.100New
Ikh Ev Nam4,1180.100New
Development Programme Party3,5210.090New
People's Party3,3330.080New
World Mongols Party5910.010New
United Patriots Party4480.0100
Independents348,0788.7110
Total3,996,543100.00760
Total votes1,475,895
Registered voters/turnout2,003,96973.65
Source: General Election Committee of Mongolia, Ikon

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "The names of the 72 candidates received seats in the Parliament of Mongolia". InfoMongolia.com. July 6, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-07-08.
  2. ^ LAW ON THE ELECTION OF THE STATE GREAT HURAL OF MONGOLIA
    PROCEDURE FOR OBSERVATION AND REPORTING ON THE ELECTION OF THE STATE GREAT HURAL OF MONGOLIA
    (PDF). 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Mongolian presidential candidates cast votes in presidential election". Xinhua News Agency. 9 June 2021.

External links edit

  • Adam Carr's Election Archive