2023 Uzbek presidential election

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2023 Uzbek presidential election
Flag of Uzbekistan.svg
  2021 9 July 20232030 
Registered19,593,838
Turnout79.88% (Decrease2.svg 0.54pp)
  Shavkat Mirziyoyev official portrait (cropped 2).jpg
Nominee Shavkat Mirziyoyev Robakhon Makhmudova
Party Independent ASDP
Popular vote13,625,055693,634
Percentage87.71%4.47%

President before election

Shavkat Mirziyoyev
OʻzLiDeP

Elected President

Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Independent (OʻzLiDeP/MTDP)

Early presidential elections were held in Uzbekistan on 9 July 2023. [1] The early election was called after the approval of the constitutional referendum where term limits were reset and president Shavkat Mirziyoyev can serve two more seven-year terms. [1] [2]

Contents

Background

A constitutional referendum was held in Uzbekistan on 30 April 2023. [3] It was held on proposed constitutional amendments. [4]

Parliament approved the referendum on 15 March 2023. [5] The amendments were accepted in the referendum with over 90% in support, which will allow Mirziyoyev to be president for two further terms if re-elected. [6] [7] [8]

The Uzbekistan legislation requires at least 33% of eligible voters to take part in the presidential elections, otherwise, the elections will be pronounced invalid. The law also provides for a second round if none of the candidates receives more than 50% of the vote. [9] In practice, neither of these events have yet occurred, as every presidential election winner since the country's independence in 1991 has won with over 80% of the vote on a turnout of over 79%, and each incumbent standing for re-election has been re-elected.

Candidates

Name, birth year and partyPolitical officesRegistration date
Abdushukur Xamzayev
(1973)
Ecological Party
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Central Council of the Ecological Party of Uzbekistan
(since 2022) [10]
Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Central Council of the Ecological Party
(since 2023) [10]
11 May 2023 [10]
Ulugbek Inoyatov
(1962) [11]
O‘XDP
Minister of National Education
(2013 [11] –2018 [12] )
Chairman of O‘XDP
(since 2019) [12]
12 May 2023 [12]
Robaxon Maxmudova
(1968) [13]
Adolat
First Deputy Chairwoman of the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan
(since 2020) [13]
12 May 2023 [13]
Shavkat Mirziyoyev
(1957)
Independent
(suggested by O‘zLiDeP and Milliy Tiklanish) [14]
President of Uzbekistan
(since 2016) [15]
Prime Minister of Uzbekistan
(2003–2016) [15]
12 May 2023 [14]

Conduct

The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said that the elected "lacked genuine political competition despite some efforts to reform." Their report mentioned "indications of ballot box stuffing as well as numerous observations of seemingly identical signatures on the voter lists," noting that "None of the registered candidates publicly criticized the current president or presented alternative political views and the campaign remained low key throughout, with observers noting that events often appeared orchestrated." [16] The mission did, however, highly appreciate preparations for presidential elections. [17]

Results

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev was re-elected with 88% of the vote. The preliminary results of the presidential elections were announced at a briefing by the chairman of the Central Election Commission of Uzbekistan, Zainiddin Nizamkhojaev. More than 15 million voters participated in elections. [18]

CandidatePartyVotes%
Shavkat Mirziyoyev Independent13,625,05587.71
Robaxon Maxmudova Justice Social Democratic Party 693,6344.47
Ulugbek Inoyatov People's Democratic Party 629,1164.05
Abdushukur Xamzayev Ecological Party of Uzbekistan 585,7113.77
Total15,533,516100.00
Valid votes15,533,51699.25
Invalid/blank votes117,8890.75
Total votes15,651,405100.00
Registered voters/turnout19,593,83879.88
Source: CEC

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