Country Profile:

Upcoming Elections

  • Presidential
    2012
Kazakhstan

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President Nursultan Abishevich NAZARBAYEV
  • Head of Government: Prime Minister Karim MASIMOV
  • Assembly: Kazakhstan has a bicameral Parliament consisting of the Senate with 39 seats and the lower house (Majilis) with 107 seats.

Description of electoral system:

  • The President is elected by simple majority vote to serve a 7-year term.
  • In the Senate, 7 members are appointed to serve 6-year terms and 32 members are elected by indirect vote to serve 6-year terms*. In the lower house (Majilis), 107 members are elected by popular vote on block lists by proportional representation to serve 5-year terms and 9 members are appointed to serve 5-year terms.**

* In the Senate, 7 members are appointed by the president and 32 are indirectly elected by oblast-level government bodies, all to serve 6-year terms.

** Under Election Law enacted in June 2007, 98 of the 107 Majilis deputies are elected via a proportional, closed list system. The remaining nine deputies will be chosen by the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan, an unelected body containing 364 members formed by the President of Kazakhstan.

Population:

  • Population: 15,284,929 (July 2007 est.)

Future elections

  • Presidential - 2012

Past elections

Last Updated on 02/04/2010