2020 Mongolian parliamentary election
24 June 2020
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| Turnout | 73.77% ( 0.19pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Mongolia on 24 June 2020.[1][2] The result was a landslide victory for the ruling Mongolian People's Party, which won 62 of the 76 seats, a slight decrease from the 65 it won in the 2016 elections. The main opposition Democratic Party won 11 out 76 seats, gaining only 2 seats.
Electoral system
The 76 members of the State Great Khural were elected by plurality-at-large voting in multi-member constituencies. The electoral system was not decided until a new electoral law was passed on 22 December 2019.[3] The changes were expected to marginalise smaller parties, and also effectively removed the right of 150,000 Mongolian expatriates to vote, as they could not be registered in a specific constituency.[3][4] The new electoral law also barred people found guilty of "corrupt practices" from standing in elections.[3] The proposal to re-introduce mixed proportional system[5] failed to garner enough support.
Women's right activists called for raising gender quota for nominations from 20% to 30% but they failed.[6] Until the 2024 elections, female MPs made up 17% (13 seats) in the parliament, the highest number since the first democratic elections in 1990.[7]
Parties and coalitions
606 candidates were officially registered by the General Election Commission of Mongolia for the election, of whom 121 were independents and 485 were from the following 13 political parties and 4 coalitions:[8][9]
| Party | Total | |
|---|---|---|
| Mongolian People's Party | 76 | |
| Democratic Party | 76 | |
| Mongolian Green Party | 15 | |
| Our Coalition (Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, Civil Will–Green Party, Mongolian Traditional United Party) | 74 | |
| New Coalition (Citizen's Coalition for Justice Party, Republican Party, Truth and Right Party, Mongolian National Democratic Party) | 72 | |
| Right Person Electorate Coalition (National Labour Party, Mongolian Social Democratic Party, Justice Party) | 53 | |
| People's Party | 1 | |
| Freedom Implementing Party | 13 | |
| Development Program Party | 7 | |
| United Patriots Party | 1 | |
| Keep Order! Constitution 19 Coalition (Mongol Conservative Party, For the Mongolian People Party) | 34 | |
| Love the People Party | 1 | |
| Demos Party | 30 | |
| World Mongols Party | 3 | |
| People's Majority Governance Party | 24 | |
| Great Harmony Party | 1 | |
| Ger Area Development Party | 4 | |
| Independent | 121 | |
| Total | 606 | |
Multiple candidates were arrested during the election campaign. Among them, two were running on the governing MPP's ticket, three were candidates of the opposition DP and one was a candidate of the Keep Order! Constitution 19 Coalition.[10][11]
Opinion polls
| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample
size |
MPP | DP | MPRP | CWGP | NEW | RP | MNDP | Truth and Right | NLP | Other | Ind. | None | Und./NA/
DK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sant Maral | 10–30 Mar 2017 | 1,200 | 31.6 | 18.1 | 5.2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.7 | – | – | 43.5 |
| Sant Maral | 15 Mar – 2 Apr 2018 | 1,200 | 17.7 | 18.9 | 7.3 | 0.7 | – | – | – | – | – | 1.0 | – | – | 54.4 |
| Policy Research Center | April 2018 | – | 14.8 | 20.4 | 7.1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4.6 | – | – | 53.2 |
| HHC | 10 Sep – 10 Dec 2018 | 16,000 | 15.5 | 19.3 | 3.9 | 0.6 | – | 3.0 | 0.3 | 9.9 | 2.8 | 0.2 | – | – | 44.4 |
| Policy Research Center | October 2018 | – | 16.9 | 17.3 | 4.2 | 0.1 | – | 0.3 | – | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.8 | – | – | 58.9 |
| Sant Maral | 20 Mar – 9 Apr 2019 | 1,200 | 14.7 | 11.4 | 8.5 | 0.5 | – | 1.0 | 0.1 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 4.7 | 5.7 | 51.0 |
| Policy Research Center | April 2019 | – | 9.7 | 10.9 | 4.1 | 0.2 | – | 0.3 | – | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.3 | – | – | 73.1 |
| 6 June 2019 | Citizens' Coalition for Justice Party founded | ||||||||||||||
| Mongolian Poll | 19–21 Sep 2019 | 1,200 | 15.1 | 18.8 | 5.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | – | – | 1.1 | – | – | – | 58.1 |
| 23 March 2020 | Our Coalition formed between MPRP, CWGP and MTUP | ||||||||||||||
| New Coalition established by NEW Party, RP, MNDP and Truth and Right Party | |||||||||||||||
| Sant Maral | 1–19 May 2020 | 1,200 | 16.9 | 11.0 | 5.3 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 53.6 | ||||
| 2020 election | 24 Jun 2020 | – | 44.9 | 24.5 | 8.1 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 3.2 | 8.7 | – | – | ||||
Results
The Mongolian People's Party won with a supermajority of 62 seats, a slight drop from the 65 won in the prior elections. The centre-right Democratic Party won 11 seats. The candidate of Our Coalition, former State Great Khural member and vice chairperson of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party Sainkhüügiin Ganbaatar, won a seat, as did candidate of the Right Person Electorate Coalition and Chairperson of the National Labour Party Togmidyn Dorjkhand. Former Prime Minister of Mongolia Norovyn Altankhuyag won one seat as an Independent candidate.[12]
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mongolian People's Party | 1,795,793 | 44.93 | 62 | –3 | |
| Democratic Party | 978,890 | 24.49 | 11 | +2 | |
| Our Coalition | 323,675 | 8.10 | 1 | 0 | |
| United Coalition of Just Citizens | 213,812 | 5.35 | 0 | New | |
| Right Person Electorate Coalition | 209,104 | 5.23 | 1 | New | |
| Keep Order! Constitution 19 Coalition | 41,417 | 1.04 | 0 | New | |
| Mongolian Green Party | 23,473 | 0.59 | 0 | 0 | |
| Love the People Party | 18,542 | 0.46 | 0 | 0 | |
| People's Majority Party | 13,720 | 0.34 | 0 | New | |
| Demos Party | 8,710 | 0.22 | 0 | New | |
| Freedom Implementing Party | 5,142 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ger Area Development Party | 4,176 | 0.10 | 0 | New | |
| Great Harmony Party | 4,118 | 0.10 | 0 | New | |
| Development Program Party | 3,521 | 0.09 | 0 | New | |
| People's Party | 3,333 | 0.08 | 0 | New | |
| World Mongols Party | 591 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| United Patriots Party | 448 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 348,078 | 8.71 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 3,996,543 | 100.00 | 76 | 0 | |
| Total votes | 1,475,895 | – | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,003,969 | 73.65 | |||
| Source: GEC, GEC, Ikon | |||||
See also
References
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- ^ a b c Law on Elections amended Montsame, 24 December 2019
- ^ Mongolia's new election rules handicap smaller parties, clear way for two-horse race Archived 2016-07-01 at the Wayback Machine Reuters, 20 May 2016
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