Kazakhstan
About parliament
Basic information such as the official name of parliament and details of its structure and leadership. Also includes the current breakdown of MPs by sex and age, and provisions for quotas and reserved seats.
Notes
Parliamentary term: 6 years; one-half of the elected Senators' seats are renewed every 3 years
Parliament name
Parlament (Parliament)
Chamber name
Senate (Senate)
Structure & Status of parliament
This field is to indicate lower/upper in the back end.
Upper chamber
Parliamentary term (years)
6
Frequency of renewal (years)
For parliaments/chambers are that are partially renewed (by half, by one third) on a regular basis.
3
IPU membership
Affiliation periods
from 1993
IPU Geopolitical Group/s
IPU Geopolitical Groups: African Group, Arab Group, Asia-Pacific Group, Eurasia Group, Group of Latin America and the Caribbean (GRULAC), Twelve Plus Group.
Eurasia Group
Speaker
Official title
The Speaker may for example be known as the Presiding Officer, President, Chairman/Chairperson, etc.
Chairman of the Senate
Speaker
Maulen
Ashimbayev
(Male)
Year of birth
1971
Term
04.05.2020
Additional information
Elected on 4 May 2020, re-elected on 26 Jan. 2023.
Secretary General
Official title
This post is most commonly called Secretary General or Clerk. It may also be called Secretary, Head/Chief of the Secretariat, Director General, etc.
Director of the Senate Office
Secretary General
Aliya
Rakisheva
(Female)
Notes
Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term.
Appointed on 6 May 2020.
Members
Statutory number of members
Statutory number of members, as defined in the constitution or other fundamental law.
Principal mode of designation of members
Indirectly elected
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Indirectly elected members
Indirectly elected, for example by regional parliaments or an electoral college.
40
Appointed members
Appointed, for example, by the Head of State.
10
Note on the statutory number of members
- Indirectly elected: 40 senators elected at a joint session of the deputies of all representative bodies of the respective oblast (regions), cities of republic significance (Almaty and Shymkent), and the capital of the Republic.
- Appointed: 10 senators appointed by the President of the Republic (Five of them are to be proposed by the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan, an advisory body chaired by the President. The Assembly aims to represent the various ethnic groups that make up Kazakhstan).
See historical data for this field.
- Appointed: 10 senators appointed by the President of the Republic (Five of them are to be proposed by the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan, an advisory body chaired by the President. The Assembly aims to represent the various ethnic groups that make up Kazakhstan).
Current number of members
Number of members who currently hold seats in parliament. May be lower or higher than the statutory number of members.
Men
The number of male parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
39
Women
The number of female parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Percentage of women
Calculated by dividing the current number of women by the current number of members.
Statutory number of members per country
As defined in the constitution or other fundamental laws. Combines the number of parliamentarians in both chambers in bicameral parliaments.
Population (in thousands)
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See historical data for this field.
Age
Data on the age of parliamentarians is collected at the start of the legislature, following the most recent elections. This data is not updated during the legislature, except when parliament notifies the IPU of a change in the youngest or oldest member.
Average age of all members
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
55.10
Youngest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
Youngest member
Shipovskih Gennadiy Gennadievich (Male)
Oldest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
67
Oldest member
Shakirov Askar Orazaliyevich (Male)
Number of members, by age
| 18 - 20 | 21 - 30 | 31 - 40 | 41 - 45 | 46 - 50 | 51 - 60 | 61 - 70 | 71 - 80 | 81 - 90 | 91 and over | Totals per gender | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals per age interval | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 27 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total <= 45: 5 | Total >= 46: 45 | ||||||||||
| Male | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| Female | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
Members for whom data is available
Reserved seats and quotas
There are reserved seats in parliament for certain groups
Reserved seats are a means to ensure the parliamentary representation of certain groups in society.
Electoral quota for women
Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament.
Electoral quota for youth
Quotas to promote the representation of youth in parliament.
Links to additional information
Parliamentary website
Link(s) to parliamentary web site in English, French and/or local languages.
Rules of procedure/Standing Orders
Link(s) to Rules of procedure on the parliamentary web site in English, French and/or local language.
List of members
Link(s) to list of members on the parliamentary web site.
Constitution
Official links to the Constitution in English, French and/or original language is provided. Links to unofficial translations where no other source is available.