Elections were held on 19 March 2023 to elect the members of the 8th Aktobe Regional Mäslihat. This election, 17 members were elected through a single-mandate election and 16 were elected through party lists. The election coincided with the 2023 Kazakh local elections.
The Amanat won a supermajority of 25 seats followed by the Aq Jol Democratic Party (AJ) and Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party (AUYL) in which both parties earned 4 seats.
Background In the aftermath of the 2022 Kazakh unrest, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in his March 2022 State of the Nation Address unveiled a series of reforms, including the changing of the electoral system of all mäslihats into a mixed one, as opposed to the previous one, which used to elect all its members through proportional representation.
Campaign 67 candidates ran for Mäslihat seats.
Results There were 562,698 registered voters in the region. 321,961 participated in the election.
After its election, the 8th convocation of the Mäslihat was:
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