Additional information about gender quotas

The percentage of women is calculated from the current number of seats occupied in the parliament. The State Great Hural has 76 statutory seats. 

In the 2012 elections, the 20 per cent legislated candidate quota for women was applied for the first time. The law does not provide a ranking order pertaining to the placement of the required 20 per cent of women candidates in parties' candidate lists. However, the Law on Election of the Parliament (the State Great Hural) does require parties to determine the candidate lists through 'a secret ballot and majority vote based on democratic principles in a party congress' and 'to arrange no more than 48 candidates in order of districts and no more than 28 candidates in order of the number and percentage of votes obtained by each candidates in the meeting of a party held to determine the composition of a candidate list (Article 27.4 and 27.5.4). As a result of this reform, although only 11 (14 per cent) women were elected, it marked an improvement from the previous elections, where only three (4 per cent) women were elected.

The Election Law was amended in 2016, shortly before the last elections were held. The parliament amended the electoral system to move from multi- to single-member constituencies increasing the number of constituencies from 26 to 76, moving to a fully majoritan system.  The gender quota was also initially set out to be at 30 % in the new electoral law, however in May 2016 it was reduced to 20 per cent (OSCE/ODIHR 2016). The Election Law was amended again in 2023, setting the gender quota at 30% for the 2024 parliamentary elections, and to 40% for the 2028 parliamentary elections.