2023 Kazakh local elections

Local elections are set to be held in Kazakhstan on 19 March 2023 to elect a total of 3,415 seats to 223 mäslihats (local assemblies) across all regions of Kazakhstan. The local elections will be held alongside 2023 legislative elections and were held under the basis of mixed-member majoritarian representation, which for the first time since 2016 reinstated single-member districts that were previously abolished in 2018.

2023 Kazakh local elections

19 March 2023

All 3,415 seats to 223 mäslihats (local assemblies)
 
Leader Erlan Qoşanov Äli Bektaev
Party Amanat Auyl
Last election 2,685, 80.2% 227, 7.4%

 
Leader Azat Peruashev Ermūhamet Ertısbaev
Party Aq Jol QHP
Last election 224, 7.3% 86, 3.0%

The local elections were initially announced by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev during the State of the Nation Address on 1 September 2022. He then signed a presidential decree on 19 January 2023 which dissolved the tenure of all mäslihats and set the election date.

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