Category Archives: Elections

Quick Observations On the Eve of Local Elections 2024

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Marissa Smith

By Marissa J. Smith While I was in Mongolia this summer for the 2024 Parliamentary Elections and was discussing the results for third parties, some interlocutors expressed enthusiasm for the 2024 local (Citizen’s Representatives’ Khural) elections, which will take place … Continue reading →

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More on Oyun-Erdene’s Cabinet

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Julian Dierkes

By Julian Dierkes and Bulgan B Marissa Smith has already provided an overview of the new cabinet. Here, we’re adding some more information in cabinet members as we had done for previous cabinets. (new cabinet members in bold, if no … Continue reading →

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Guest Comment: Mongolia’s Democratic Party Gambit into Government

Posted on August 20, 2024 by Julian Dierkes

By Sugar Munkhtsooj The Mongolian parliamentary elections of 2024, the first since constitutional amendments increased the number of parliamentarians from 76 to 126, concluded in June with results that largely aligned with predictions from pundits and pollsters. As expected, the … Continue reading →

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CWGP and National Coalition Results

Posted on August 16, 2024 by Julian Dierkes

By Julian Dierkes Beyond the DP’s success, the second great surprise (to me) of the election results was that the Civil Will Green Party re-entered parliament with four seats and the National Coalition gained four seats on its first attempt. … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: A free but not a Fair Election: It Was All About Money

Posted on August 12, 2024 by Julian Dierkes

By Bat-Orgil Altankhuyag, Batkhishig Gankhuyag Mongolia recently conducted its tenth competitive election since 1990 in June 2024 (the first multi-party elections). In general, various electoral observation reports, including the one conducted by OSCE-ODIHR, suggest that the 2024 parliamentary election was … Continue reading →

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Observing Election Day: Bulgan and Orkhon Aimags

Posted on August 5, 2024 by Julian Dierkes

By Julian Dierkes During the five days leading up to the election we had driven through Tov, Arkhangai and Khuvsgul, visiting polling stations and campaign offices along the way. We have reflected on the election preparations we saw during these … Continue reading →

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Observing Election Day: Erdenet City

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Marissa Smith

By Benjamin Nuland and Marissa J. Smith In the week leading up to election day on June 28, Julian and Benjamin observed 10 polling stations in constituency 4 (Khuvsgul, Bulgan, and Orkhon aimags), traveling from Murun to Bulgan to interview … Continue reading →

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Double Deel Direct

Posted on July 18, 2024 by Julian Dierkes

By Julian Dierkes As Bulgan B recently pointed out to me, every member of PM Oyun-Erdene’s new cabinet is an MP! Maybe not surprising for many parliamentary democracies, but this has been a lingering topic of discussion for many years. … Continue reading →

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PM Oyun-Erdene’s Multi-Party Cabinet

Posted on July 10, 2024 by Marissa Smith

By Marissa J. Smith After each winning shares of seats in the election, the MPP, DP, and KhUN signed a cooperation agreement to form a “grand coalition.” (The Civil Will Green Party and National Coalition also won four seats each). … Continue reading →

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DP Results

Posted on July 8, 2024 by Julian Dierkes

By Julian Dierkes To me, the success of the DP was one of the surprises of the June 28 election. To my surprise, the DP soared to claim one third of seats in #Mongolia parliament. blogs.ubc.ca/mongolia/202… #Сонгууль2024 #Сонгууль #MGLpoli [image … Continue reading →

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Preparing an Election

Posted on July 2, 2024 by Julian Dierkes

By Benjamin Nuland and Julian Dierkes Leading up to the election on June 28th, 2024, we traveled as international election observers through Arkhangai, Khuvsgul, Bulgan and Orkhon aimags to observe the preparations for the election and the election campaign. We … Continue reading →

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How Much Power and Legitimacy Do New Women MPs Hold?

Posted on July 1, 2024 by Marissa Smith

By Marissa J. Smith As already noted in Bulgan’s post, the new Parliament has the highest proportion and number of MPs ever, with over a quarter of the new Parliament being comprised of women. While this is certainly a result worth … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Voter Participation

Posted on June 29, 2024 by Julian Dierkes

By Benjamin Nuland Working as an official foreign observer team with Marissa Smith, I visited nine different polling stations across all six of the urban bags of Erdenet on election day (including polling stations at schools attended by Ukrainian President … Continue reading →

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Election Results: How Did Incumbents Fare?

Posted on June 28, 2024 by Marissa Smith

By Marissa J. Smith The 2024 Parliamentary Election has resulted in prominent MPP MPs from specific constituencies losing their seats. Especially of note here is Zandanshatar, the Speaker of Parliament, in the Khangai district (1), and Ganibal from the eastern steppe constituency … Continue reading →

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Quick Overview of Election Results

Posted on June 28, 2024 by Julian Dierkes

By Julian Dierkes After this morning’s very hot takes, I want to offer a slightly expanded summary of the results of the parliamentary election. For those of you wanting to look at various aspects directly, the Ikon.mn website is my … Continue reading →

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