Municipal elections were held in

Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sh ...

on 1 April 2007 for the third time. Three women and 122 men ran for 29 seats in the

Central Municipal Council The first municipal council in Qatar was formed in the early 1950s and it was reorganized in 1956. Doha Municipality, Doha municipality came into being in May 1963. The Ministry of Municipal Affairs was established in 1972 as a government body re ...

. About 28,000 citizens of the 174,000 Qataris were able to vote,Qatar's municipal balloting seen as democracy test ahead of parliament elections
International Herald Tribune, 31 March 2007 and overall turnout was 51.1 per cent. One of the three female candidates,

Sheikha Yousuf Hasan Al Jufairi Sheikha bint Yousuf Al-Jufairi (Arabic: شيخة بنت يوسف الجفيري) is a Qatari politician. Since 2003, she has served on the Central Municipal Council (CMC) in Qatar from the Old Airport (Doha), Airport constituency. She holds a Bach ...

, was elected with the highest number of votes of all 125 candidates. Turnout in her Airport constituency was the lowest in the country at 28 per cent, while turnout in Al Shamaliyya and Shamal was over 80 per cent.

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