Five parties clear the threshold in the election to Kazakhstan's 145-seat Kurultai

21 October 2026

Kazakhstan voted on 23 August to fill the 145 seats of the Kurultai, its new single-chamber parliament. All seats are filled from party lists and deputies serve five-year terms. Turnout was 74.08 per cent, with 9,351,539 of 12,623,289 eligible voters taking part. Five parties crossed the 5 per cent threshold: Adilet with 71.17 per cent, Auyl with 6.26 per cent, Respublica with 5.56 per cent, Aq Jol with 5.21 per cent and the Nationwide Social Democratic Party with 5.11 per cent. The People's Party of Kazakhstan polled 3.11 per cent and Baytaq 1.07 per cent, both below the threshold. Observers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Commonwealth of Independent States described the voting as transparent.