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Kazakhstan’s First Kurultai Election Concludes With Preliminary Voter Turnout at 74.19%

By Ayana Birbayeva on 23 August 2026

ASTANA – Voting in Kazakhstan’s first elections to the Kurultai concluded at all polling stations across the country at 8 p.m. on Aug. 23, with 9,352,151 voters, or 74.19% of those registered, having received ballots, according to preliminary voter turnout data from the Central Election Commission (CEC). Polling stations...