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50 of the 65 seats in the National Assembly | ||
Turnout | 65.2% ( 13.3pp) |
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Early general elections were held in Kuwait on 26 November 2016. They follow the dissolution of the parliament elected in 2013 by Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah in October 2016.[1] Under the constitution, elections must be held within two months.[2] Opposition candidates won 24 of the 50 seats in the National Assembly.[3] Voter turnout was around 70 percent.[3]
The 50 elected members of the National Assembly were elected from five 10-seat constituencies by single non-transferable vote.[4]
Opposition Islamist candidates (Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi) won around half of the 24 seats won by the opposition, whilst the Shia minority was reduced to six seats from ten seats.[5][6] One woman was elected, with only around 20 of the 42 MPs seeking re-election retaining their seats.[7] Members of Kuwait's largest tribes together won just seven seats in the election, down from fifteen.[8]
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Notes |
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First Constituency | Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad | 4,287 | Elected |
Essa Ahmad Al-Kanderi | 4,077 | Elected | |
Mohammad Mirwi Al-Hadiyah | 3,016 | Elected | |
Adel Jassem Al-Damkhi | 2,758 | Elected | |
Abdullah Al-Roumi | 2,731 | Elected | |
Saleh Ashour | 2,541 | Elected | |
Mubarak Salem Al-Harees | 2,444 | Elected | |
Osama Essa Al-Shaheen | 2,270 | Elected | |
Khaled Hussein Al-Shatti | 2,166 | Elected | |
Salah Abduredha Khourshid | 2,131 | Elected | |
Second Constituency | Marzouq Al-Ghanim | 4,119 | Elected |
Riyadh Ahmad Al-Adsani | 3,578 | Elected | |
Khalil Ibrahim Al-Saleh | 2,914 | Elected | |
Jamaan Thaher Al-Herbish | 2,432 | Elected | |
Hamad Seif Al-Harshani | 2,341 | Elected | |
Mohammed Al-Mutair | 2,172 | Elected | |
Khalaf Dumaitheer Al-Enizi | 1,942 | Elected | |
Rakan Al-Nisf | 1,888 | Elected | |
Oudah Oudah Al-Ruwaiee | 1,772 | Elected | |
Omar Al-Tabtabaee | 1,755 | Elected | |
Third Constituency | Abdulwahab Al-Babtain | 3,730 | Elected |
Sadoon Al-Otaibi | 3,444 | Elected | |
Youssef Saleh Al-Fedhalah | 3,399 | Elected | |
Abdulkarim Al-Kanderi | 3,325 | Elected | |
Safaa Abdurrahman Al-Hashim | 3,273 | Elected | |
Mohammad Hussein Al-Dalaal | 2,533 | Elected | |
Waleed Al-Tabtabaie | 2,504 | Elected | |
Khalil Abdullah Abul | 2,443 | Elected | |
Mohammad Nasser Al-Jabri | 2,219 | Elected | |
Ahmad Nabil Al-Fadhel | 2,124 | Elected | |
Fourth Constituency | Thamer Saad Al-Thifeeri | 5,601 | Elected |
Mubarak Haif Al-Hajraf | 4,621 | Elected | |
Mohammed Hayef Al-Mutairi | 4,506 | Elected | |
Saad Ali Al-Rusheedi | 3,811 | Elected | |
Abdullah Fahad Al-Enizi | 3,545 | Elected | |
Shueib Shabab Al-Muweizri | 3,528 | Elected | |
Ali Salem Al-Deqbasi | 3,379 | Elected | |
Askar Auwayed Al-Enizi | 2,972 | Elected | |
Saud Mohammad Al-Shuwaier | 2,897 | Elected | |
Marzouq Khalifa Al-Khalifa | 2,874 | Elected | |
Fifth Constituency | Humoud Abdullah Al-Khudeir | 5,072 | Elected |
Hamdan Salem Al-Azmi | 5,038 | Elected | |
Al-Humaidi Bader Al-Subaiee | 4,660 | Elected | |
Talal Saad Al-Jalaal | 4,299 | Elected | |
Faisal Mohammad Al-Kanderi | 4,114 | Elected | |
Khaled Mohammad Al-Otaibi | 3,998 | Elected | |
Majed Musaaed Al-Mutairi | 3,821 | Elected | |
Nayef Abdulaziz Al-Ajmi | 3,769 | Elected | |
Nasser Saad Al-Doussari | 3,296 | Elected | |
Mohammad Hadi Al-Huweila | 2,851 | Elected | |
Source: KUNA (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) |
Following the elections, a new Speaker of the National Assembly was elected on 11 December. Marzouq Al-Ghanim was elected with 48 votes, defeating Abdullah Al-Roumi (9 votes) and Shuaib Al-Muwaizri (8 votes).
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Marzouq Al-Ghanim | Independent | 48 | 73.85 | |
Abdullah Al-Roumi | Independent | 9 | 13.85 | |
Shuaib Al-Muwaizri | Independent | 8 | 12.31 | |
Total | 65 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 65 | 100.00 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 0 | 0.00 | ||
Total votes | 65 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 65 | 100.00 |