{"id":9174,"date":"2024-06-28T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/?p=9174"},"modified":"2024-06-28T19:11:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T02:11:47","slug":"election-hot-take-change-but-not-quite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2024\/election-hot-take-change-but-not-quite\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Hot Take: Change but not Quite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Julian Dierkes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Everything points to a reduced MPP majority with a surprisingly strong showing by the DP and no major surprises on individual candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Mongolian voters have thus opted for personnel change, but even that not quite. There were no issues in the campaign that suggested a programmatic change, even with a stronger opposition showing, but really the change that was embraced was change for change&#8217;s sake and particularly change in the people governing, even if the DP&#8217;s offering of potential MPs was not exactly reformist or exciting.<\/p>\n<p>The relatively strong turnout also suggests that desire for some change.<\/p>\n<p>More detailed analyses will have to wait tomorrow, particularly in terms of more solidified results, the showing of DP and KhUN in Ulaanbaatar vs the countryside, the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2024\/women-mps-in-2024-election-result\/\">women MPs elected<\/a>, and any strong showing by individuals in more solidified results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julian Dierkes Everything points to a reduced MPP majority with a surprisingly strong showing by the DP and no major surprises on individual candidates. Mongolian voters have thus opted for personnel change, but even that not quite. There were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2024\/election-hot-take-change-but-not-quite\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4769,4291,3493692,3493703,307911,3493705,307841,642],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democratic-party","category-elections","category-ikh-khural-2024","category-khun","category-mongolian-peoples-party","category-national-coalition","category-party-politics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9182,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions\/9182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}