At precisely eight o’clock this evening, Thursday, the voting stations for the Kuwaiti National Assembly’s 17th legislative term concluded (local time in Kuwait).
The counting of votes started after the polls closed and the voting was completed in order to prepare for the declaration of the official results and the designation of the winners for the Council’s membership for the following four years.
795,911 people were eligible to vote, and they used the one-electoral-vote system to select 50 deputies from a field of 305 male and female candidates.
After the National Assembly was dissolved by Decree No. 136 of 2022 on August 2 of last year due to a lack of agreement or collaboration between the two institutions, those elections took place. Order No.
147 of 2022, which was determined today, was issued on the 28th of the same month calling voters to cast ballots. As a result, work in government offices has been halted so that individuals can focus on exercising their right to vote.
48 male and female candidates battled for the votes of the constituency’s approximately 100,185 male and female voters in the first electoral district, while 48 male and female candidates contested the votes of 90,478 male and female voters in the second electoral district.
While 80 male and female candidates are vying for 208,971 electoral votes in the fourth constituency, 47 male and female candidates are vying for the votes of 138,364 male and female voters in the third constituency.
Every citizen who has attained the age of 21 (on election day) and who possesses the qualifications to assume the electoral rights to vote in (the nation of 2022) has been automatically registered in the voter list and has been required to bring a copy of their Nationality Certificate with them when they go to the polls. There are 257913 male and female voters in the fifth constituency, and the 82 candidates are vying for their support.
In the five constituencies where voting took place today, women and older voters showed up in significant numbers to cast ballots and select Kuwaiti National Assembly members.
Counselor Jamal Al-Jalawi, the Minister of Justice for Kuwait, stated that the “National Assembly Legislative Session 17” election process happened organically and that the actions done yielded their intended effects.
Al-Jalawi noted that the Ministry of Justice today actively participated through the judges and its staff, saying that the recent government measures have improved the election environment, which was widely accepted by the voters. He was speaking during his inspection of the voting process for the selection of members of the Kuwaiti National Assembly.
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior has also made significant efforts to efficiently arrange the (Nation 2022) elections by providing all services and streamlining all formalities so that male and female voters can fully fulfil their civic responsibility. .
Kuwait: Voting ends and counting for the 2022 National Assembly elections begins.
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