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Mongolia elects itshead of state—thePresident of Mongolia—at the national level. The president is elected for a six-year term by the people, using theTwo-round system. TheState Great Khural (Ullsyn Ikh Khural,State Great Assembly) has 126 members (reform in 2023), originally elected for a four-year term from single-seatconstituencies. 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, aparallel 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 usingPlurality-at-large voting. 28 seats are chosen from nationwideclosedparty lists using theLargest 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.[1][2] Mongolia also holds local elections in October of the same year, with 8031 seats across 2395 constituencies in all 9 districts, 21 provinces, and 331 sums (county) and Citizen Representative Khural (local governing councils) inMajoritarian system.[3]
Dominant parties are theMongolian People's Party (MPP), theDemocratic Party (DP or AH), theMongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) and theCivil 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.
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh | Mongolian People's Party | 823,326 | 72.02 | |
Dangaasürengiin Enkhbat | Right Person Electorate Coalition | 246,968 | 21.60 | |
Sodnomzunduin Erdene | Democratic Party (Mongolia) | 72,832 | 6.37 | |
Total | 1,143,126 | 100.00 |