ELECTIONS HELD IN 1996
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Ulsyn Ikh Khural | |
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30 June 1996 | |
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Elections were held for all the seats in Parliament on the normal expiry of the members' term of office. | |
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The 1996 elections were the second since a multi-party Electoral Law was promulgated in 1990. In January 1992, a Constitution endorsing the new pluralist system and providing for the present parliamentary set-up was adopted. Five months later, the ex-communist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) won in a landslide over a scattering of poorly organised opposition parties.
As in 1992, campaign issues primarily concerned the country's ailing economy, marked by high unemployment and inflation rates that resulted in low living standards and widespread impoverishment. This time around, though, the MPRP's opposition was united in the Democratic Union coalition led by the National Democratic and Social Democratic parties, and led by Mr. Mendsaihan Enkhsaikhan. This alliance called for faster economic liberalisation and political reform. Altogether 302 candidates (267 party/coalition members and 35 independents) were in contention. On a generally calm polling day, the opposition forces scored a dramatic victory, thus ending 75 years of rule by communist parties and their heirs. While the MPRP lost 47 of its 70 Hural seats, the National Democrats supplanted it as the leading party with 33. The Social Democrats, led by Mr. R. Gonchigdorj, for their part collected 12 seats, allowing the coalition as a whole to arrive at 50. Much of the voting pattern was reportedly split along age lines, older citizens favouring the MPRP and younger ones its opponents. The 44 international observers from 11 countries deemed the voting procedure free and fair. On 19 July, the newly elected Hural elected Mr. Enkhsaikhan as Prime Minister and entrusted him with forming a new Government, whose composition it approved on 30 July. The President of the Republic is Mr. P. Ochirbat, formerly of the MPRP but supported as from 1993 by the Opposition. |
STATISTICS
Round no 1 (30 June 1996): Elections results | |
Number of registered electors | 1,147,260 |
Voters | 1,014,031 (88.38%) |
Blank or invalid ballot papers | 3,874 |
Valid votes | 1,010,157 |
Round no 1: Distribution of votes | |||
Political Group | Candidates | Votes | % |
Democratic Union Coalition | 74 | 475,267 | 45 |
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) | 76 | 408,977 | 39 |
Mongolian Traditional United Party | 17 | 15,810 | 1 |
Round no 1: Distribution of seats | |||
Political Group | Total | Gain/Loss | |
Democratic Union Coalition | 50 | +45 | |
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) | 25 | -45 | |
Mongolian Traditional United Party | 1 | +1 |
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The Democratic Union Coalition is formed by:
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Distribution of seats according to sex: | |
Men: | 70 |
Women: | 6 |
Distribution of seats according to age: | ||
25-35 years | 21 | |
36-45 years | 39 | |
46 and over years | 16 | |
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Economists | 25 | |
Teachers | 15 | |
Engineers | 10 | |
Lawyers | 9 | |
Journalists | 4 | |
Physicists, Mathematicians | 3 | |
Others | 10 |
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