Country Profile:

Upcoming Elections

  • Parliamentary
    December 2012
Kyrgyzstan

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President Kurmanbek BAKIEV *
  • Head of Government: Prime Minister Igor CHUDINOV
  • Assembly: Kyrgyzstan has a unicameral Supreme Council (Jorgorku Kenesh) with 90 seats.

* Electoral system is two-round.

Description of electoral system:

  • The President is elected by majority vote to serve a 5-year term.
  • In the Supreme Council (Jorgorku Kenesh) 90 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms.***

*** The electoral system is closed list PR. Parties must clear a threshold of five percent of registered voters nationwide. They they must clear a second threshold of 0.5 percent of all registered voters in each of the country's seven regions, plus the cities Bishkek and Osh.

** After the February 27th elections, the parliament will become a unicameral body with 75 seats.

Population:

  • Population: 5,431,747 (July 2009 est.)

Future elections

  • Parliamentary - December 2012

Past elections

Last Updated on 02/04/2010