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Upcoming Elections

  • Presidential
    June 26, 2013

Mongolia

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President Tsakhia ELBEGDORJ *
  • Head of Government: Prime Minister Norovyn ALTANKHUTAG
  • Assembly: Mongolia has a unicameral State Great Hural (Ulsyn Ikh Khural) with 76 seats.

* To be eligible to seek the presidency, one must belong to a political party with seats in parliament but resign that party affiliation upon taking office.

Description of electoral system:

  • The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 4-year term.
  • The Prime Minister is elected by parliament.
  • In the State Great Hural (Ulsyn Ikh Khural), 48 members are elected by plurality vote in multi-member constituencies to serve 4-year terms and 28 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.***

*** In the nominal tier, there will be 6 single-member constituencies, 18 two-member constituencies and 2 three-member constituencies.There is a five percent threshold in the PR tier.

Population:

  • Population: 3,179,997 (July 2012 est.)

Future elections

  • Presidential - June 26, 2013

Past elections

Last Updated on 01/10/2013

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