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General elections were held in Kuwait on 29 September 2022 following the dissolution of parliament by Crown Prince Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. [1] However, the results were annulled by the Constitutional Court on 19 March 2023 after judges ruled that the previous parliament had not been dissolved properly.
No elections were held in the seventh and tenth constituencies due to having one applicant registering in the election, giving them automatic victory per local laws. [4] Turnout in the 2022 election was 22.32%. Only three out of the ten members of 2018 Municipal Council, Hassan Kamal, Abdulaziz Al-Mehri and Fuhaid Al-Muwaizri, kept their seats.
This national electoral calendar for 2022 lists the national/federal elections held in 2022 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included.
Kuwait held national elections on Thursday for the fourth time in as many years as the oil-rich country seeks to break out of its longstanding political gridlock. There are no political parties.
Kuwait said Saturday it will hold elections for its national assembly on April 4, its latest round of voting after years of political turmoil. The state-run KUNA news agency made the announcement ...
Saturday's election for Kuwait's parliament, the freest and most-rambunctious assembly in the Gulf Arab countries, saw an over-60% turnout of the country's more than 560,000 registered voters.
The first constituency of Kuwait is a legislative constituency in Kuwait. Like the other four constituencies in Kuwait , it elects exactly 10 members to the National Assembly via plurality vote . As of 2022, it currently represents twenty residential areas and has an electorate of 100,185. [ 1 ]
On 24 July 2022, an Amiri decree issued by the Crown Prince, acting on behalf of the Emir, appointed the Emir’s eldest son Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as Kuwait's Prime Minister. [66] On 28 August, the Kuwaiti Cabinet led by Ahmad Nawaf Al-Sabah approved the decree calling for elections on 29 September. [67]