Elections in Mongolia

Mongolia elects its head of state—the President of Mongolia—at the national level. The president is elected for a six-year term by the people, using the Two-round system. The State Great Khural (Ullsyn Ikh Khural, State Great Assembly) has 76 members, originally elected for a four-year term from single-seat constituencies. Due to the voting system, Mongolia experienced extreme shifts in the composition of the parliament after the 1996, 2000, and 2004 elections, so it has changed to a system in which some seats are filled on the basis of votes for local candidates, and some on the basis of nationwide party preference totals. Beginning in 2008, local candidates were elected from 26 electoral districts. Beginning with the 2012 elections, a parallel system was enacted, combining a district part and a nationwide proportional part. 48 seats are chosen at the local level in 26 districts with 1-3 seats using Plurality-at-large voting. 28 seats are chosen from nationwide closed party lists using the Largest remainder method. In the district seats, a candidate is required to get at least 28% of the vote cast in a district to be elected. If there are seats that are not filled due to this threshold, a runoff election is held in the respective district with twice the number of representatives as there are seats to be filled, between the top vote-getters of the first round.

Dominant parties are the Mongolian People's Party (MPP), the Democratic Party (DP or AH), the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) and the Civil Will-Green Party (CWGP). In the 2012 legislative elections, the MPRP and Mongolian National Democratic Party ran together as the Justice Coalition, winning 11 seats.

Latest elections

2021 presidential election

Main article: 2021 Mongolian presidential election

Polls opened at 07:00 in 2,087 polling stations across the country for the 2.1 million registered voters, with special measures in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia. Voting ended at 22:00. Khürelsükh and Erdene voted in Ulaanbaatar while Enkhbat tested positive for COVID-19 and voted in hospital.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh	Mongolian People's Party	823,326	72.02
	Dangaasürengiin Enkhbat	Right Person Electorate Coalition	246,968	21.60
	Sodnomzunduin Erdene	Democratic Party	72,832	6.37
Total			1,143,126	100.00
Valid votes			1,143,126	94.08
Invalid/blank votes			71,937	5.92
Total votes			1,215,063	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			2,049,379	59.29
Source: GEC, IFES

2020 legislative election

Main article: 2020 Mongolian legislative election

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Mongolian People's Party	1,795,793	44.93	62	–3
	Democratic Party	978,890	24.49	11	+2
	Our Coalition	323,675	8.10	1	0
	United Coalition of Just Citizens	213,812	5.35	0	New
	Right Person Electorate Coalition	209,104	5.23	1	New
	Keep Order! Constitution 19 Coalition	41,417	1.04	0	New
	Mongolian Green Party	23,473	0.59	0	0
	Love the People Party	18,542	0.46	0	0
	People's Majority Party	13,720	0.34	0	New
	Demos Party	8,710	0.22	0	–
	Freedom Implementing Party	5,142	0.13	0	0
	Ger Area Development Party	4,176	0.10	0	New
	Great Harmony Party	4,118	0.10	0	New
	Development Programme Party	3,521	0.09	0	New
	People's Party	3,333	0.08	0	New
	World Mongols Party	591	0.01	0	New
	United Patriots Party	448	0.01	0	0
	Independents	348,078	8.71	1	0
Total		3,996,543	100.00	76	0
Total votes		1,475,895	–
Registered voters/turnout		2,003,969	73.65
Source: GEC, GEC, Ikon

See also

• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system
• Political parties in Mongolia
• 2016 Mongolian legislative election
• 2012 Mongolian legislative election
• 2008 Mongolian legislative election
• 2004 Mongolian legislative election
• 2000 Mongolian legislative election
• 1996 Mongolian legislative election
• 1992 Mongolian legislative election

External links

• Adam Carr's Election Archive