General Information
At Stake in this Election:
- 90 seats in the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan (Jogorku Kenesh, Жогорку Кеңеш)
Government Structure:
- Chief of State: President Sadyr JAPAROV (since 28 January 2021)
- Head of Government: Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Akylbek JAPAROV (since 12 October 2021)
- Assembly: The Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan (Jogorku Kenesh) is a unicameral legislature consisting of 90 seats.
Electoral System: [1]
- The President of Kyrgyzstan, who is elected for a five-year term and may serve up to two terms, is elected using a two-round system in which voters casts a single ballot to elect their preferred candidate. If no candidate receives a simple majority, a run-off election is held between the two highest grossing candidates.
- The Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan (Jogorku Kenesh) is a unicameral body consisting of 90 deputies elected to serve five-year terms. Employing a mixed electoral system, 54 deputies of the Supreme Council are elected in a single constituency according to a proportional system, while the remaining 36 deputies are elected in single-mandate constituencies under the majoritarian system.
Last Election:
- Parliamentary elections were last held in Kyrgyzstan on 4 October 2020.*
*The results of the October 2020 elections were annulled following widescale protests over allegations of vote-rigging. [2]
Main Parties in this Election: [3]
- Party: Fatherland Kyrgyzstan / Ata-Jurt Kyrgyzstan (Ата-Журт Кыргызстан)
- Leader: Aybek MATKERIMOV
- Seats won in last election: 0
- Party: Trust / Ishenim (Ишеним)
- Leader: Azamat DOROEV
- Seats won in last election: 0
- Party: Harmony / Yntymak (Ынтымак)
- Leader: Marlen MAMATALIEV
- Seats won in last election: 0
- Party: Alliance / Alyans (Альянс)
- Leader: Mirlan JEENCHOROEV
- Seats won in last election: New
- Party: United Kyrgyzstan / Bütün Kırgızstan (Бүтүн Кыргызстан)
- Leader: Adakhan MADUMAROV
- Seats won in last election: 13
- Party: Light of Faith / Lyman Nuru (Ыйман нуру)
- Leader: Nurzhigit KADYRBEKOV
- Seats won in last election: 0
- Party: People’s Hope / El Ümütü (Эл Үмүтү)
- Leader: Bolot IBRAGMIOV
- Seats won in last election: New
- Party: Liberty Democratic Party / Azattyk (Демократическая партия азаттык)
- Leader: Ismail ISAKOV
- Seats won in last election: 0
- Party: Fatherland Socialist Party / Ata-Meken Sotsialisttik Partiyası (Ата-Мекен Социалисттик Партиясы
- Leader: Omurbek TEKEBAYEV
- Seats won in last election: 0
- Party: Social Democrats / Kyrgyzstan sotsial-demokratiyalyk Partiyasy (Социал-демократтар)
- Leader: Temirlan SULTANBEKOV
- Seats won in last election: 0
Gender Data:
- Female Population: 3,385,312 (December 2021 est.) [6]
- Is Kyrgyzstan a signatory to CEDAW: No [7]
- Has Kyrgyzstan ratified CEDAW: Acceded on 10 February 1997 [8]
- Gender Quota: While the law dictates that 30 percent of seats are reserved for women, compliance has been limited. [9]
- Female candidates in this election: 377 out of 1,046 [10]
- Number of Female Legislators: 20** [11]
- Human Development Index (HDI) Position: Rank 120 at 0.697 (2020) [12]
- Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Low [13]
**Data reflects the composition of the Supreme Council as determined by the 2015 elections due to the annulment of the 2020 election results.
[1] https://shailoo.gov.kg/ru/konstitucionnye-zakony-kr/konstitucionnye-zakony-kr/O_vyborah_Pr-1913/
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54422884
[3] https://akipress.org/elections/parlament2021/results-united/reg:99/?hl=ru&place=bottom-link
[4] https://countrymeters.info/en/Kyrgyzstan
[5] https://akipress.org/elections/parlament2021/results-united/reg:99/?hl=ru&place=bottom-link
[6] https://countrymeters.info/en/Kyrgyzstan
[7] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en
[8] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en
[9] https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/7/a/472461.pdf
[10] https://www.rferl.org/a/31581745.html
[11] https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/7/a/472461.pdf
[12] http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/KGZ
[13] https://www.genderindex.org/country-profiles/
[14] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?CountryID=176&Lang=EN
[15] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?CountryID=176&Lang=EN
[16] http://www.electionaccess.org/en/resources/countries/kg/all/