2021 Akmola regional election

Elections to the Akmola Regional Mäslihat were held on 10 January 2021 to elect the 32 members of the 7th Akmola Regional Mäslihat to coincide with the 2021 Kazakh local elections. It was the first election to be held under newly implemented proportional representation.

2021 Aktobe regional election
10 January 2021
All 32 seats in the Akmola Regional Mäslihat
17 seats needed for a majority
Turnout71.45%
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
Nur Otan Ruslan Abilov 75.72% 26 New
Ak Zhol Ainagul Adrahmanova 8.91% 3 New
Auyl Edil Aishuq 8.90% 3 New
Secretary before Secretary after
Alibek Baimagambetov
Nonpartisan		 Murat Balpan
Nur Otan

Nur Otan (NO) won a majority of 26 seats, followed by Ak Zhol and Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party with both winning 3 seats. The first session of the newly elected 7th Regional Mäslihat convened on 15 January 2021. From there, Murat Balpan (NO) was elected as the new Mäslihat Secretary.

Background

Following the constitutional amendments in 2018, all local elections were made to be elected through party-list proportional representation.

On 22 October 2020, elections to the Akmola Regional Mäslihat were scheduled to be held on 10 January 2021, the same date as the local and Mazhilis elections. The Nur Otan party held a conference on 17 November 2020 where the delegates approved party-list of 58 candidates as well as the election program in improving lives of the Akmola citizens.[1][2] By 11 December 2020, the Akmola Election Commission registered in total of 72 candidates from 4 parties except for People's Party of Kazakhstan (QHP) which refused to contest seats in the regional mäslihat.[3]

Parties
Name Ideology No. 1 in party-list No. of candidates Registration date
NO Nur Otan Big tent Ruslan Abilov 58 25 November 2020 [4]
AUYL Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party Agrarianism Edil Aishuq 6 30 November 2020 [5]
AJ Ak Zhol Democratic Party Liberalism Ainagul Adrahmanova 4 7 December 2020 [6]
ADAL Adal Eco-socialism Olga Adrahmanova 4 2 December 2020 [7]

Results
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Nur Otan275,41475.7226+26
Ak Zhol Democratic Party32,3988.913+3
Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party32,3658.903+3
Adal23,5446.4700
Total363,721100.00320
Valid votes363,72197.96
Invalid/blank votes7,5602.04
Total votes371,281100.00
Registered voters/turnout519,63371.45
Source: Akmola Territorial Election Commission
Popular vote
Nur Otan
 
 75.72%
Ak Zhol
 
 8.91%
Auyl
 
 8.90%
Adal
 
 6.47%
Mäslihat seats
Nur Otan
 
 81.25%
Ak Zhol
 
 9.38%
Auyl
 
 9.38%
Adal
 
 0%

References
  1. INFORM.KZ (2020-11-17). "Почти на 70% обновился состав кандидатов в Акмолинский областной маслихат от Nur Otan". www.inform.kz (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  2. "В Акмолинской области утвердили список кандидатов в областной маслихат от партии Nur Otan". Liter.kz (in Russian). 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  3. "2021 жылғы 10 қаңтарға тағайындалған Қазақстан Республикасы мәслихаттары депутаттарының кезекті сайлауында мәслихаттар депутаттығына кандидаттардың партиялық тізімдерін тіркеу туралы хабарлама". gov.egov.kz (in Kazakh). 2020-12-11. Archived from the original on 2021-01-30. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  4. ""Nur Otan "партиясы" қоғамдық бірлестігі Ақмола облыстық қоғамдық филиалының партиялық тізімін тіркеу туралы". gov.egov.kz (in Kazakh). 2020-11-25. Archived from the original on 2021-01-29. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  5. ""Ауыл" Халықтық демократиялық-патриоттық партиясы» қоғамдық бірлестігі Ақмола облысы бойынша өңірлік филиалының партиялық тізімін тіркеу туралы". gov.egov.kz (in Kazakh). 2020-11-30. Archived from the original on 2021-01-29. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  6. ""АҚ ЖОЛ" саяси партиясы» қоғамдық бірлестігі Ақмола облыстық филиалының партиялық тізімін тіркеу туралы". gov.egov.kz (in Kazakh). 2020-12-07. Archived from the original on 2021-01-31. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  7. ""ADAL" саяси партиясы» қоғамдық бірлестігі Ақмола облыстық филиалының партиялық тізімін тіркеу туралы". gov.egov.kz (in Kazakh). 2020-12-02. Archived from the original on 2021-01-31. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
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