Five parties are garnering more than 5% of votes needed to win seats in Kazakhstan’s new unicameral parliament (Kurultai), with the largest Adilet party scoring more than 70% of votes, according to the results of three exit polls, APA reports.
Thus, according to the poll conducted by the SOCIS-A private fund and released by the Zakon.kz media outlet, Adilet is receiving 70.7% of votes. It is followed by Auyl with 6.4%, Respublica with 5.5%, Aq Jol with 5.4%, and the Nationwide Social Democratic Party (NSDP) with 5%. The People’s Party, which had seats in the previous parliament, is failing to surpass the threshold with 3.2% of votes. The Baytaq party can count on 1.2% of votes and is failing to make it to the new parliament either. As many as 2.6% of the polled said they had voted against all parties.
The results of the exit poll conducted by the Institute of Eurasian Integration that were reported by the Khabar 24 television channel indicate that Adilet has 71.8% of votes, Auyl - 6.4%, Respublica - 5.4%, NSDP - 5.2%, Aq Jol - 5.1%, the People’s Party - 3%, Baytaq - 1%, with the last two failing to win seats in parliament. As many as 2.1% said they had voted against all.
According to the results of the poll conducted by the Institute of Public Development that were released by Channel 7, Adilet won 72.3% of votes, Auyl - 6.2%, Respublica - 5.2%, Aq Jol - 5.1%, NSDP - 5%. The People’s Party and Baytaq are failing to surpass the 5% threshold with 2.8% and 0.9%, respectively. As many as 2.5% said they had voted against all.