2021 Kazakh local elections

2021 Kazakh local legislative elections
10 January 2021
All 3,246 seats to 214 mäslihats (local assemblies)
Turnout57.26%
 
Leader Nursultan Nazarbayev Äli Bektaev Azat Peruashev
Party Nur Otan Auyl Ak Zhol
Leader since 1 March 1999 26 August 2015 2 July 2011
Mäslihats 214 0 0
Members 399 R, 2,286 M 44 R, 183 M 39 R, 185 M
Popular vote* 10,951,426 1,002,799 1,002,184
Percentage 80.23% 7.35% 7.34%
 
Adal
Leader Aiqyn Qongyrov Serik Sultangali
Party People's Party Adal
Leader since 11 November 2020 26 April 2013
Mäslihats 0 0
Members 7 R, 79 M 0 R, 24 M
Popular vote* 406,624 286,531
Percentage 2.98% 2.10%

Local elections were held in Kazakhstan on 10 January 2021 to elect in total of all 3,246 members of the 214 mäslihats (local assemblies) which included 489 regional members and 2,757 municipal members. This is the first election to take place under party-list proportional representation system that was enacted in 2018, giving political parties a role in local races and it coincided with the 2021 legislative elections.

The ruling Nur Otan party swept a majority of 3083 local seats followed by the Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party (AUYL) with 268 and the Ak Zhol Democratic Party with 267 and People's Party of Kazakhstan with 107 seats while the Adal, which earned the fewest total votes of 2.1%, had managed to garner 24 seats in the district mäslihats by passing the 7% electoral threshold in some races.

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