2023 Aktobe regional election

2023 Aktobe regional election

19 March 2023
All 33 seats in the Aktobe Regional Mäslihat 17 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	57.22%
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Amanat Ondasyn Orazalin 25 −2 Aq Jol Asqar Sadyqov 4 +1 Auyl Älibek Bazarğaliev 4 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Secretary before Secretary after Sänia Qaldygulova Amanat Gülqasima Süintaeva Amanat

Elections were held on 19 March 2023 to elect the members of the 8th Aktobe Regional Mäslihat. This election, 17 members were elected through a single-mandate election and 16 were elected through party lists. The election coincided with the 2023 Kazakh local elections.

The Amanat won a supermajority of 25 seats followed by the Aq Jol Democratic Party (AJ) and Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party (AUYL) in which both parties earned 4 seats.

Background

In the aftermath of the 2022 Kazakh unrest, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in his March 2022 State of the Nation Address unveiled a series of reforms, including the changing of the electoral system of all mäslihats into a mixed one, as opposed to the previous one, which used to elect all its members through proportional representation.

Campaign

67 candidates ran for Mäslihat seats.

Results

There were 562,698 registered voters in the region. 321,961 participated in the election.

After its election, the 8th convocation of the Mäslihat was:

Party		Party-list			Constituency			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Amanat			13	141,449	73.01	12	25
	Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party			1	37,527	19.37	3	4
	Aq Jol			2	14,753	7.62	2	4
Total				16	193,729	100.00	17	33
Source: aqtobegazeti.kz, gov.kz