Uzbekistani parliamentary election, 2009

Uzbekistani parliamentary election, 2009–2010

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27 December 2009 (2009-12-27) and 10 January 2010 (2010-01-10)

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135 out of 150 seats in the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan

Turnout

87.8% (first round)

	First party	Second party

Party	Liberal Democratic	PDPU
Last election	41 seats	28 seats
Seats won	53	32

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Milliy Tiklanish	Adolat
Last election	29 seats	10 seats
Seats won	31	19

Prime Minister before election

Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Milliy Tiklanish

Elected Prime Minister

Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Milliy Tiklanish

Parliamentary elections were held in Uzbekistan on 27 December 2009 and 10 January 2010 to elect the 150 members of the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan, the lower house of the Oliy Majlis. Of these, 135 were directly elected from single member constituencies using the two-round system, while 15 seats were reserved for the country's Ecological Movement. Provincial and district councils were elected at the same time. Polls opened at 6 am Uzbekistan Time (0100 UTC) and closed at 8 pm UZT (1500 UTC).

The Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party (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 (32 deputies), the Uzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party (Milliy Tiklanish, 31 deputies) and the Justice Social Democratic Party (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 Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (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, Human Rights Watch 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."

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