2021 Atyrau regional election

Elections to the Atyrau Regional Mäslihat were held on 10 January 2021. Voters elected all 31 members of the Atyrau Regional Mäslihat for the first time using proportional representation system to allocate all the seats in the mäslihat.

2021 Atyrau regional election
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All 31 seats in the Atyrau Regional Mäslihat
16 seats needed for a majority
Turnout56.40%
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Nur Otan Amangeldi Abdolov 78.71% 25 New
Ak Zhol Bektas Joldaev 8.79% 3 New
Auyl EBauyrjan Ajğaliev 8.45% 3 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Secretary before Secretary after
Ömirzaq Zinullin
Nonpartisan
Älibek Näutiev
Nur Otan

The Nur Otan (NO) secured a majority of 25 seats while two parties Ak Zhol Democratic Party (AJ) and Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party (AUYL) had managed to secure to earn the certain required 7% electoral threshold to win each 3 seats.

Background

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Election date was set in October 2020 for all local and Mazhilis races, including the 31 seats in the Atyrau Regional Mäslihat as the 6th convocation's term was set to expire in January 2021.[1] The new Regional Mäslihat was composed of party members elected through the newly implemented party-list proportional representation electoral system from 2018.

On 18 November 2020, the Atyrau Regional Branch of the Nur Otan party presented its list of candidates to the Regional Mäslihat as well as pre-election campaign with relation to the economy of the region.[2]

Parties

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Four parties submitted their lists to the Atyrau Regional Electoral Commission which were registered by 12 December 2020.[3]

Name Ideology No. 1 in party-list No. of candidates
NO Nur Otan Big tent Amangeldi Abdolov 47
AUYL Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party Agrarianism Bektas Joldaev 6
AJ Ak Zhol Democratic Party Liberalism Bauyrjan Ajğaliev 6
ADAL Adal Eco-socialism Nurtas Baijanov 3

Results

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By district

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District Nur Otan Ak Zhol Auyl Adal
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Atyrau 78,579 77.05% 9,018 8.84% 8,295 8.13% 6,091 5.97%
Zhylyoi 26,696 79.64% 3,077 9.18% 2,935 8.76% 812 2.42%
Inder 11,482 80.19% 1,028 7.18% 1,059 7.40% 749 5.23%
Isatay 9,172 80.36% 1,003 8.79% 1,034 9.06% 205 1.80%
Kurmangazy 20,701 79.95% 2,401 9.27% 2,300 8.88% 491 1.90%
Kyzylkoga 10,981 79.93% 1,191 8.67% 1,353 9.85% 214 1.56%
Makat 9,496 80.15% 1,030 8.69% 1,043 8.80% 279 2.35%
Makhambet 9,708 81.35% 1,007 8.44% 957 8.02% 262 2.20%
  Atyrau Region 176,815 78.71% 19,755 8.79% 18,976 8.45% 9,103 4.05%

Overall

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Nur Otan176,81578.7125+25
Ak Zhol Democratic Party19,7558.793+3
Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party18,9768.453+3
Adal9,1034.0500
Total224,649100.00310
Valid votes224,64996.88
Invalid/blank votes7,2333.12
Total votes231,882100.00
Registered voters/turnout411,10956.40
Source: Atyrau Regional Election Commission
Popular vote
Nur Otan
78.71%
Ak Zhol
8.79%
Auyl
8.45%
Adal
4.05%
Mäslihat seats
Nur Otan
80.65%
Ak Zhol
9.68%
Auyl
9.68%

References

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  1. ^ "Атырау облыстық мәслихаты депутаттарын сайлау жөніндегі сайлау округін құру жөнінде". gov.egov.kz (in Kazakh). 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  2. ^ "В Атырауской области выдвинуты кандидаты в партийный список на выборы в Мажилис". 18 November 2020.
  3. ^ "2021 жылғы 10 қаңтарға тағайындалған Атырау облысы мәслихаттары депутаттығына кандидаттарды партиялық тізімдер бойынша тіркеу туралы хабарлар". gov.egov.kz (in Kazakh). 2020-12-12. Archived from the original on 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2021-01-31.