In the news release, Liberals win Uzbekistan legislative poll, consolidate majority to push reforms agenda, issued 28-Oct-2024 by Central Election Commission of Uzbekistan over PR Newswire, we are advised by the client that in the table, the Percentage of votes for the National Revival Democratic Party, should read "19.3%" rather than "19/3%" as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows:

Liberals win Uzbekistan legislative poll, consolidate majority to push reforms agenda

Election commission validates free-and-fair vote and announces preliminary results

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, Oct. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of a campaign sprint leading up to Uzbekistan's first legislative election under the country's 2023 constitution, voters went to the polls on Sunday and rewarded a plurality to the largest party, the Liberal Democrats, who increased their share in the seat Oliy Majlis (Parliament) from 53 to 64 seats. Their coalition partner, the National Revival Democratic Party, declined from 36 to 29 seats. This presumably enables them to maintain the current coalition arrangement, aligned with the reform agenda of President Shavkat Mirzoyoyev, who won his 2nd mandate last year. A summary of the preliminary results follows:


     
              Party                  Percentage of Seats by Party   Seats by    Total Seat   Change Since Last
                                             vote           List     Constituency     Count          Election



     Liberal Democratic Party                 42.7 %             26            38           64                  +11



     National Revival Democratic Party        19.3 %             14            15           29                   -7



     People's Democratic Party                  14 %             13             7           20                   -2



     Justice Social Democratic Party            13 %             12             9           21                   -3



     Ecological Party                         10.7 %             10             6           16                   +1

Turnout was higher than expected, reaching nearly 75% by the time the polls closed, comprising over 15 million votes cast. The Central Election Commission cited the presence of more than 850 foreign and international observers, as well as 55,000 observers from political parties and more than 10,000 observers from citizens' self-government bodies. It also praised the IT system called "E-saylov" (Electronic Elections), launched on the eve of the elections, that enabled the digitization of many procedures to reduce bureaucratic obstacles and increase transparency.

The weekend poll marked the first time in Uzbekistan that a legislative election was conducted using a hybrid model similar to that of Germany, in which half of the 150 seats are selected by constituency "first past the post." The other half of the seats are selected proportionally via national party lists, for which all of the participating parties crossed the 7% threshold.

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