2020 Tajik parliamentary election

2020 Tajik parliamentary election

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All 63 seats in the Assembly of Representatives 32 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	86.44% ( 1.39pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– PDP Emomali Rahmon 51.21 47 −4 PERT Rustam Qudratov  [ tg ] 16.88 5 +2 Agrarian Rustam Latifzoda  [ tg ] 16.77 7 +2 Socialist Abduhalim Ghafforov 5.23 1 0 Democratic Saidjafar Usmonzoda  [ tg ] 5.18 1 0 Communist Miroj Abdulloyev 3.16 2 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Parliamentary elections were held in Tajikistan on 1 March 2020. ^[1] The result was a landslide victory for the ruling People's Democratic Party, which won 47 of the 63 seats. The only opposition party, the Social Democratic Party, received just 0.3% of the vote. ^[2]

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe was critical of the election. ^[2]

Electoral system

The 63 members of the Assembly of Representatives are elected by two methods: 41 members are elected in single-member constituencies using the two-round system, whilst 22 seats are elected by proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency, with an electoral threshold of 5%. ^[3] Voters cast a single ballot for a candidate in their single-member constituency, with the total votes received across all constituencies used to determine the proportional seats. In each constituency, voter turnout is required to be at least 50% for the election to be declared valid. ^[4]

Campaign

A total of 241 candidates contested the elections, 65 for the 22 party-list seats and 176 for the 41 constituency seats. ^[5]

The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan was unable to participate, having been banned by the authorities over terrorism allegations in 2015. ^[6]

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				Constituency	PR	Total	+/–
	People's Democratic Party	2,139,741	51.21	35	12	47	–4
	Party of Economic Reforms	705,252	16.88	1	4	5	+2
	Agrarian Party	700,582	16.77	3	4	7	+2
	Socialist Party	218,696	5.23	0	1	1	0
	Democratic Party	216,526	5.18	0	1	1	0
	Communist Party of Tajikistan	132,000	3.16	2	0	2	0
	Social Democratic Party	13,735	0.33	0	0	0	0
	Independents			0	0	0	0
Against all		52,030	1.25	–	–	–	–
Total		4,178,562	100.00	41	22	63	0
Total votes		4,260,951	–
Registered voters/turnout		4,929,128	86.44
Source: OSCE

References

1. Elections To Tajikistan's Lower House To Take Place March 1, Upper House March 27 - Decree Urdu Point, 4 December 2019
2. "Tajikistan's long-serving ruler dispenses with all political opposition". The Economist . 7 March 2020.
3. Electoral system IPU
4. Electoral law Archived 2020-09-21 at the Wayback Machine Legislation Online
5. CPT, SDPT fail to pass a 5-oersent threshold to get into the parliament, says CCER head Asia Plus, 2 March 2020
6. Pitiot, Christophe (2020-03-01). "Ruling party in Tajikistan expected to sweep parliamentary election". euronews. Retrieved 2020-03-11.