2020 Tajik parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Tajikistan on 1 March 2020.[1] The result was a landslide victory for the ruling People's Democratic Party, which won 47 of the 63 seats. The only opposition party, the Social Democratic Party, received just 0.3% of the vote.[2]
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The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe was critical of the election.[2]
Electoral system
The 63 members of the Assembly of Representatives are elected by two methods: 41 members are elected in single-member constituencies using the two-round system, whilst 22 seats are elected by proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency, with an electoral threshold of 5%.[3] Voters cast a single ballot for a candidate in their single-member constituency, with the total votes received across all constituencies used to determine the proportional seats. In each constituency, voter turnout is required to be at least 50% for the election to be declared valid.[4]
Campaign
A total of 241 candidates contested the elections, 65 for the 22 party-list seats and 176 for the 41 constituency seats.[5]
The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan was unable to participate, having been banned by the authorities over terrorism allegations in 2015.[6]
Preliminary results
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
| TRS | PR | Total | +/– | |||||
| People's Democratic Party | 35 | 12 | 47 | –4 | ||||
| Party of Economic Reforms | 1 | 4 | 5 | +2 | ||||
| Agrarian Party | 3 | 4 | 7 | +2 | ||||
| Socialist Party | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Democratic Party | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Communist Party of Tajikistan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Social Democratic Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 41 | 22 | 63 | 0 | ||||
| Total votes | 4,245,951 | – | ||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,929,128 | 86.14 | ||||||
| Source: RFERL, Asia Plus | ||||||||
References
- Elections To Tajikistan's Lower House To Take Place March 1, Upper House March 27 - Decree Urdu Point, 4 December 2019
- "Tajikistan's long-serving ruler dispenses with all political opposition". The Economist. 7 March 2020.
- Electoral system IPU
- Electoral law Archived 2020-09-21 at the Wayback Machine Legislation Online
- CPT, SDPT fail to pass a 5-oersent threshold to get into the parliament, says CCER head Asia Plus, 2 March 2020
- Pitiot, Christophe (2020-03-01). "Ruling party in Tajikistan expected to sweep parliamentary election". euronews. Retrieved 2020-03-11.