Kazakhstan

Population Statistics

18,157,122

Total Population

2,723,568

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

21 April 2015

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


On Elections in the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995, last amended 1999)

Updated: June 2015

Article 4 states:

(1) Universal active suffrage shall be the right of citizens of the Republic to take part in the voting at elections upon reaching the age of eighteen years irrespectively of his/her birth, origin, social, official and property status, sex, race, ethnic origin, language, relation to religion, belief and faith, place of residence or any other circumstances.

(2) Eligibility to be elected as a President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a deputy of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, maslikhat or a member of other local self-government body shall be the right of citizens of the Republic.

(3) The citizens, who have been recognized by a court as legally incapable, including those who kept in places of confinement under the court’s sentence, shall not take part in elections...

 

Excerpt from the Constitutional Act on Elections in the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995, last amended 1999)

Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995, last amended 2011)

Updated: June 2015

Article 3 states:

(1) The people shall be the only source of state power.

(2) The people shall exercise power directly through an all-nation referendum and free elections as well as delegate the execution of their power to state institutions...

 

Article 33 states:

(1) Citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall have the right to participate in the government of the state’s affairs directly and through their representatives, to address personally as well as to direct individual and collective appeals to public and local self-administrative bodies.

(2) Citizens of the Republic shall have the right to elect and be elected into public and local self-administrations as well as to participate in an all-nation referendum.

(3) The right to elect and be elected, to participate in the all-nation referendum shall not extend to the citizens judged incapable by a court as well as those held in places of confinement on a court’s sentence.

(4) Citizens of the Republic shall have the equal right to serve in a public office. The requirements for candidates for public offices shall be conditioned only by the character of the office duties and shall be established by law.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995, last amended 2011)