2021 Zalyk legislative election

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2021 Zalyk legislative election
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← 2017 May 14, 2021 (2021-05-14)

All 57 seats to the Grand Khural
29 seats needed for a majority
Registered6,176,882
Turnout34.7% (Decrease 7.8%)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
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Leader Khermen Osor Elya Yamanchev Boris Yudin
Party Patriots' Front Rally for Zalykia United Left–Protsvitannya
Leader's seat Borshchovichi
(Yashkul)
Novokhulsunsk
(Charkasar)
Unuste
(Yashkul)
Seats before
28 / 57
22 / 57
3 / 57
Seats won
25 / 57
25 / 57
3 / 57
Seat change Decrease 3 Increase 3 Steady 0
Popular vote 719,188 807,615 327,102
Percentage 33.53% 37.68% 15.29%
Swing Decrease 6.71% Increase 5.19% Increase 1.05%

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Results by constituency

Governor before election

Khermen Osor
Patriots' Front

Governor

TBD
TBD

The 2021 Zalyk legislative election were held on May 14, 2021. All 57 seats of the Grand Khural were elected in first-past-the-post, constituency-based elections, and, indirectly elected Zalykia's next governor. Incumbent Khermen Osor stood for re-election, while Elya Yamanchev and Boris Yudin, both of whom stood in the last election, were the main opposition leaders. The resulting government formed the 5th convocation of the Grand Khural.

The buildup to the election wasn conducted mainly under the backdrop of increased repression by the central government towards Soravia's main opposition parties. The arrest of Rally for Zalykia's parliamentary leader, Donduk Kichikov, and later the arrest of Yashkul's incumbent mayor, Khunbish Nokhaev, prompted calls of election tampering from party officials. Internationally, the arrests were condemned by a myriad of countries including Azmara, Caldia and Estmere, as well as various human rights groups that included the Etrurian Maria Furelli Association and the Estmerish Liberty House.

The result showed a significant swing against the Patriots' Front and their policies in the region, with Rally for Zalykia securing the largest proportional of popular vote, becoming the first opposition party since 1983 to do so. The Front lost four seats to the Rally, while the latter lost one seat in Yashkul to the Front. Yudin's progressive and pro-Euclean agenda proved popular amongst Rally defectors who didn't vote for the incumbent party, but their seat total did not change. Independents held all four of their seats in the Khural.

Background

Candidates

Opinion polling

Polling firm Poll date Sample
size
Osor Yamanchev Yudin Undecided Abstention Net
Pekrovo Online 10–20 January 2021 2,500 31.6% 26.9% 10.5% 14.2% 6.8% 4.7%
Pekrovo Online 1–7 February 2021 4,000 31.2% 27.1% 10.3% 14.3% 7.1% 4.1%
pk.com 18–22 February 2021 1,000 25.7% 31.4% 9.6% 15.1% 8.2% 5.7%
pk.com 2–11 March 2021 5,500 26.1% 31.0% 9.9% 14.7% 8.3% 4.9%
Zakhid 4–20 March 2021 9,000 34.9% 23.9% 9.2% 13.9% 8.1% 11.0%
Novopol 25–31 March 2021 4,300 30.2% 30.0% 8.2% 13.5% 8.1% 0.2%
Novopol 1–5 March 2021 1,000 29.1% 29.8% 9.1% 13.8% 8.2% 0.7%
Kichikov and Nokhaev arrested
Novopol 10–20 April 2021 5,000 27.3% 21.2% 10.5% 22.7% 8.3% 4.6%
pk.com 17–26 March 2021 6,000 25.5% 23.1% 10.4% 17.7% 13.3% 2.4%

Results

Summary of the 2021 election results for the Grand Khural of Zalykia
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Party Ideology Votes Votes % (change) Seats (change) Seats %
Patriots' Front (PF)
Патріотичний фронт (Пф)
National conservatism
Soravian nationalism
719,188 33.53% -6.71% 25 -3 43.9%
Rally for Zalykia (MZ)
Мітинг за Заликію (MЗ)
Zalyk nationalism
Regionalism
807,615 37.68% +5.19% 25 +3 43.9%
United Left–Protsvitannya (SL-P)
Сполучені Лівий–Процвітання (СЛ-П)
Social democracy
Progressivism
Pro-Eucleanism
327,102 15.29% +1.05% 3 ±0 5.3%
Various independents 288,991 13.50% +0.43% 4 ±0 6.9%
Others 1,122 0.00% ±0.00% 0 ±0 0.0%
Total 2,144,018 100.0% 57 100.0%
Registered voters and turnout 6,176,882 34.7% -7.8%