Kazakhstan
○ Presidential Election
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Parliamentary Elections
· Parliamentary (Upper)
- Seats: 50
- Term of office: 6 years
· Parliamentary (Lower)
- Seats: 98
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 10,146
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 7 am and 8 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 12,035,578 (2023 election)
· Voter turnout: 54.21% (2023 parliamentary elections)
· Voting age: 18
- Presidential: Plurality vote.
- Parliamentary
1. In the Senate, 10 members are appointed by the president and 40 members are indirectly elected by regional legislatures.
2. In the House of Representatives (Mazhilis), 69 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system and 29 members are selected for minorities.
· Voting process
1. A choice of voting on electronic voting machines or on paper ballots.
2. Touch-screen voting terminal in the voting booth serves as a ballot marking device, recording selections on a smart card.
· Counting process
1. The polling-place computer system prints out several reports.
2. A copy of this is posted at the polling place
3. The distributed database mechanisms automatically incorporate the election results and updated voter lists into the central database.
· Time to take to announce voting results in the country: 1 day