2009–10 Uzbek Parliamentary Election
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Parliamentary elections were held in
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on 27 December 2009 and 10 January 2010 to elect the 150 members of the
Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan The Legislative Chamber () is the lower chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It has 150 members, elected for a five-year term. Elections of deputies to the Legislative Chamber are universal. Citizens of the Republic of Uz ...
, the lower house of the ''
Oliy Majlis The Oliy Majlis (, /) is the parliament of Uzbekistan. It succeeded the Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 1995, and was unicameral until a reform implemented in January 2005 created a second chamber. The legislative chamber ha ...
''. Of these, 135 were directly elected from single member constituencies using the
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, while 15 seats were reserved for the country's
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.
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and
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councils were elected at the same time. Polls opened at 06:00 and closed at 20:00... The
Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party The Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party (UzLiDeP; ), officially the Movement of Entrepreneurs and Businessmen – Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party (), is a political party in Uzbekistan and the country's ruling party. The four other parties i ...
(''O'zlidep'') was reconfirmed as the largest single party in the Legislative Chamber, with 55 deputies. The other parties permitted to participate in the elections were the
People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan The People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (, O‘zXDP. Russian language, Russian: Народно-демократическая партия Узбекистана, НДПУ, ''Narodno-demokraticheskaya partiya Uzbekistana, NDPU'') is a politic ...
(32 deputies), the
Uzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party The Uzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party (, OʻzMTDP), often known as simply Milliy Tiklanish, is a national conservative, national-conservative political party in Uzbekistan. It is allied with the Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan ...
(''Milliy Tiklanish'', 31 deputies) and the
Justice Social Democratic Party Adolat (), officially the "Adolat" Social Democratic Party (, "Adolat" SDP), is a political party in Uzbekistan. One of the founders and the first general secretary of the party was Anvar Juraboev. It is one of the four parties who acts as a p ...
(''Adolat'', 19 deputies).. The elections were monitored by over 270 observers from 36 countries and representatives of four international missions. The election monitoring arm of the
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(OSCE) did not send a full mission, saying none of its earlier recommendations had been implemented:. An OSCE assessment mission observed voting at several polling places, but did not do comprehensive vote monitoring.. Veronica Szente Goldston,
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Advocacy Director for Europe and Central Asia, said the pre-election situation in Uzbekistan has been marked by intense repression by the government: "Human rights are violated everywhere around the country, there is no political competition, all the parties that are running for this election are supporting the government."


Campaign

A candidate for election had to belong to a registered party and collect a minimum of 40,000 signatures. Several opposition politicians have alleged that all candidates also had to be approved by the government before they would be placed on the ballot. The four registered parties were:. *''Adolat'' (
Justice Social Democratic Party Adolat (), officially the "Adolat" Social Democratic Party (, "Adolat" SDP), is a political party in Uzbekistan. One of the founders and the first general secretary of the party was Anvar Juraboev. It is one of the four parties who acts as a p ...
), with 123 candidates and 10 seats in the outgoing legislative chamber; *''Milliy Tiklanish'' (
Uzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party The Uzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party (, OʻzMTDP), often known as simply Milliy Tiklanish, is a national conservative, national-conservative political party in Uzbekistan. It is allied with the Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan ...
), with 125 candidates and 29 seats in the outgoing legislative chamber; *
People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan The People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (, O‘zXDP. Russian language, Russian: Народно-демократическая партия Узбекистана, НДПУ, ''Narodno-demokraticheskaya partiya Uzbekistana, NDPU'') is a politic ...
(PDP), with 134 candidates and 28 seats in the outgoing legislative chamber; *
Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party The Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party (UzLiDeP; ), officially the Movement of Entrepreneurs and Businessmen – Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party (), is a political party in Uzbekistan and the country's ruling party. The four other parties i ...
(''O'zlidep''), with 135 candidates and 41 seats in the outgoing legislative chamber. The election campaign consisted of 15- to 20-minute television programs each day for four days, as well as a second program called "Election – Mirror of Democracy". Transcripts from these shows were reprinted in newspapers, and billboards also appeared touting the upcoming choice that Uzbeks had to make. The four parties have publicly criticized each other, mainly over social policy, while praising
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's achievements.
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, a US-based human rights organization, says the discussions appeared on television for the first time, which was a positive development, but that "We have some evidence from Uzbek activists that those debates were scripted. And even if not – these parties don't know themselves who they are, they have no ideology."


Ecological Movement

The
Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan The Ecological Party of Uzbekistan (, O'EP; ) is a political party and environmental movement in Uzbekistan. It was founded on 2 August 2008 as the Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan (; ), and re-inaugurated as a formal political party in January ...
elected its 15 legislators at a congress, also held on 27 December, one from each territorial subdivision of Uzbekistan (Republic of
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,
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and
Tashkent Tashkent (), also known as Toshkent, is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uzbekistan, largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3 million people as of April 1, 2024. I ...
city) plus one member from the executive committee of the Central Council of the Ecological Movement. Delegates to the congress were elected in equal numbers at the conferences of each of the territorial branches of the Ecological Movement..


Turnout

There were 17,215,700 eligible voters for the 2009 parliamentary elections. By 13:00 57.3% (9,879,195 voters) had cast their vote, ensuring that the election would be valid under Uzbekistani election law (33% minimum turnout required).. By 17:00 79.4% (13,670,387 voters) had cast their votes.. Final turnout for the first round (based on provisional figures) was 87.8% (15,108,950 voters). On 24 December all 16 million mobile phone users in Uzbekistan received an SMS informing them of the forthcoming elections. According to an Uzbek living in exile in the United States, "there are certain groups of the population which are under pressure and they are compelled to participate in the election – students, teachers, government employees." For the second round on 10 January 2010, the electorate was 4,969,547.. Of these, 16.3% (812,502 voters) were reported to have voted by 09:00, just three hours after polling stations had opened. The final turnout (based on provisional figures) when polls closed at 20:00 was 79.7% (3,960,876 voters)..


Results

Preliminary results were announced by the Central Election Commission on 29 December. Results were declared in 96 out of the 135 electoral districts; in the remaining 39 districts, no candidate obtained an overall majority of votes, and so a second round of voting was held in 10 January 2010.. Final results were announced by the Central Election Commission on 13 January 2010.


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Central Election Commission of the Republic of Uzbekistan
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