2009–10 Uzbek parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Uzbekistan on 27 December 2009 and 10 January 2010 to elect the 150 members of the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan, the lower house of the Oliy Majlis. Of these, 135 were directly elected from single member constituencies using the two-round system, while 15 seats were reserved for the country's Ecological Movement. Provincial and district councils were elected at the same time. Polls opened at 06:00 and closed at 20:00.

2009–10 Uzbek parliamentary election

27 December 2009 (first round)
10 January 2010 (second round)

135 of the 150 seats in the Legislative Chamber
76 seats needed for a majority
Turnout87.76% (first round)
79.70% (second round)
PartyLeader Seats +/–
OʻzLiDeP Muhammadusuf Teshabaev 53 +12
XDP Latif G'ulomov 32 +4
Milliy Tiklanish Axtam Tursunov 31 +2
ASDP Ismoil Sayfnazarov 19 +9
Ecological Movement Boriy Alixonov 15 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Speaker before Speaker after
Diloram Tashmukhamedova
ASDP
Diloram Tashmukhamedova
ASDP

The Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party (O'zlidep) was reconfirmed as the largest single party in the Legislative Chamber, with 55 deputies. The other parties permitted to participate in the elections were the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (32 deputies), the Uzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party (Milliy Tiklanish, 31 deputies) and the Justice Social Democratic Party (Adolat, 19 deputies).

The elections were monitored by over 270 observers from 36 countries and representatives of four international missions. The election monitoring arm of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) did not send a full mission, saying none of its earlier recommendations had been implemented: An OSCE assessment mission observed voting at several polling places, but did not do comprehensive vote monitoring. Veronica Szente Goldston, Human Rights Watch Advocacy Director for Europe and Central Asia, said the pre-election situation in Uzbekistan has been marked by intense repression by the government: "Human rights are violated everywhere around the country, there is no political competition, all the parties that are running for this election are supporting the government."

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