MPP wins local elections

Polls took place in 29 soums of 11 provinces on June 24 to fill the vacant seats at local citizens’ representative councils. Voter turnouts at 17 polling stations in 12 soums of eight provinces did not meet their required 50 percent, and additional polls took place on June 30.

In accordance to the Law on Elections, the election commissions of soums present their citizens’ representative councils with the poll results within five days, and the councils make the results public within seven days of the submission by election commissions.

The General Election Commission (GEC) tabulated the results of the local elections on July 5.

According to GEC’s official reports, as 37 candidates of the Mongolian People’s Party (MPP), 11 candidates of the Democratic Party (DP) and one candidate of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) earned majority support from their soums’ voters, they have been elected as representatives of their respective soums’ councils.

Some 45 candidates representing MPP, 29 candidates from DP, four from MPRP, three from the Tuv Nutag Coalition (DP and MPRP) in Tuv Province, and five independent candidates ran for 49 vacant seats at local citizen’s representative councils.

Province citizen’s representative council elections took place in two provinces alongside soum council elections on June 24, and two candidates of MPP won the vacant seats.