Kazakhstan

House of RepresentativesSenate

House of Representatives

Political system Political systems: Presidential, Parliamentary, Presidential-Parliamentary, Monarchy, Communist, Transitional.
Presidential-Parliamentary
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Structure of parliament Structure of parliament: Unicameral, bicameral
Bicameral
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IPU membership Current membership status
Yes
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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.

Parliament name
Parlament (Parliament)
Chamber name
Mazhilis (House of Representatives)
Structure & Status of parliament This field is to indicate lower/upper in the back end.
Lower chamber
Parliamentary term (years)
5

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 Mazhilis of Parliament
Speaker
Yerlan Koshanov (Male)
Year of birth
1962
Term
01.02.2022
Additional information
Elected on 1 Feb. 2022.
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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.
Head of the Administration of the Mazhilis of the Parliament
Secretary General
Dastan Makhayev (Male)
Notes Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term.
Appointed on 26 Oct. 2020.

Members

Statutory number of members Statutory number of members, as defined in the constitution or other fundamental law.
107
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Principal mode of designation of members
Directly elected
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Directly elected members Directly elected by citizens.
98
Indirectly elected members Indirectly elected, for example by regional parliaments or an electoral college.
9
Note on the statutory number of members
Nine members are indirectly elected with the consent of the Assembly of the People of 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.
106
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Men The number of male parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
77
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Women The number of female parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
29
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Percentage of women Calculated by dividing the current number of women by the current number of members.
27.36% See historical data for this field.
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.
157 See historical data for this field.
Population (in thousands) Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects.
18,995
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Inhabitants per parliamentarian Calculated by dividing the population by the statutory number of parliamentarians.
120,987 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
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Youngest member (years) Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
26
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Youngest member
Sauytbek Abdrakhmanuly Abdrakhmanov (Male)
Oldest member (years) Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
69
Oldest member
Madi Abylayevich Akhmetov (Male)
Number of members, by age
Breakdown of members by age and gender
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 2 17 12 12 45 17 1 0 0
Total <= 45: 31 Total >= 46: 75
Male 0 2 7 9 10 32 16 1 0 0 77
Female 0 0 10 3 2 13 1 0 0 0 29
Percentage of members, by age
Age as last election or renewalOverallMaleFemale
Percentage of MPs 30 years of age or younger1.89%1.89%0%
Percentage of MPs 40 years of age or younger17.92%8.49%9.43%
Percentage of MPs 45 years of age or younger29.25%16.98%12.26%
Members for whom data is available
106

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.
Yes
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Number of reserved seats, by group

Notes
9 seats are reserved for representatives of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan
Electoral quota for women Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament.
Yes
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Notes
- In a party list, the number of women and persons under the age of 29 must be at least 30 per cent of the total number of persons included in it.*
- When approving party lists of candidates to become a Member of the Mazhilis [House of Representatives] of the Parliament, or of the Maslikhat [regional and local councils], a political party should include women and persons under the age of 29 so that they constitute at least 30 per cent of the total number of candidates.**
Legal source Legal text that stipulates the quota, such as the Constitution or electoral law.
#70-4 Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan" adopted on October 20, 2008

*Article 89 of the 1995 Constitutional Law on elections (N 2464, dated 28 September 1995), amended by the 2020 Constitutional Law (No. 335-VІ ЗРК, dated 25 May 2020)
** Article 15-1 of the 2002 Law on Political Parties (N 344, dated 15 July 2002), amended by Law No. 336-VI ЗРК, dated 25 May 2020
Electoral quota for youth Quotas to promote the representation of youth in parliament.
Yes
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Notes
- In a party list, the number of women and persons under the age of 29 must be at least 30 per cent of the total number of persons included in it.*
- When approving party lists of candidates to become a Member of the Mazhilis [House of Representatives] of the Parliament, or of the Maslikhat [regional and local councils], a political party should include women and persons under the age of 29 so that they constitute at least 30 per cent of the total number of candidates.**
Legal source Legal text that stipulates the quota, such as the Constitution or electoral law.
*Article 89 of the 1995 Constitutional Law on elections (N 2464, dated 28 September 1995), amended by the 2020 Constitutional Law (No. 335-VІ ЗРК, dated 25 May 2020)
** Article 15-1 of the 2002 Law on Political Parties (N 344, dated 15 July 2002), amended by Law No. 336-VI ЗРК, dated 25 May 2020

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