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Date: 26 November 2016
Kuwait National Assembly election Details Candidates Results 2016 Live
- The opposition and its allies won 24 of 50 Assembly seats, the electoral authority announced
- Around half of the opposition candidates who won seats are Islamists from a Muslim Brotherhood-linked group and Salafists.
- One third of the members of the new parliament are relatively young and fresh on the political scene. Only one woman was elect and the Muslim Shiite minority was reduced to six seats from nine in the previous house.
- Safaa al-Hashem was the only woman to win one of the 50 seats up for grabs in Saturday's election
- Kuwaiti voters dealt a heavy blow to members of the outgoing parliament, retaining only 40 percent of them.
- The emir will now appoint a prime minister who will then select a Cabinet within the next week.
Kuwait National Assembly election Results 2016
Const | Candidate | Votes |
First Constituency | Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad | 4287 |
Essa Ahmad Al-Kanderi | 4077 | |
Mohammad Mirwi Al-Hadiyah | 3016 | |
Adel Jassem Al-Damkhi | 2758 | |
Abdullah Al-Roumi | 2731 | |
Saleh Ashour | 2541 | |
Mubarak Salem Al-Harees | 2444 | |
Osama Essa Al-Shaheen | 2270 | |
Khaled Hussein Al-Shatti | 2166 | |
Salah Abduredha Khourshid | 2131 | |
Second Constituency | Marzouq Al-Ghanim | 4119 |
Riyadh Ahmad Al-Adsani | 3578 | |
Khalil Ibrahim Al-Saleh | 2914 | |
Jamaan Thaher Al-Herbish | 2432 | |
Hamad Seif Al-Harshani | 2341 | |
Mohammed Al-Mutair | 2172 | |
Khalaf Dumaitheer Al-Enizi | 1942 | |
Rakan Youssef Al-Nisf | 1888 | |
Oudah Oudah Al-Ruwaiee | 1772 | |
Omar Abdulmohsin Al-Tabtabaee | 1755 | |
Third Constituency | Abdulwahab Mohammad Al-Babtain | 3730 |
Sadoon Al-Otaibi | 3444 | |
Youssef Saleh Al-Fedhalah | 3399 | |
Abdulkarim Abdullah Al-Kanderi | 3325 | |
Safaa Abdurrahman Al-Hashim | 3273 | |
Mohammad Hussein Al-Dalaal | 2533 | |
Waleed Al-Tabtabaie | 2504 | |
Khalil Abdullah Abul | 2443 | |
Mohammad Nasser Al-Jabri | 2219 | |
Ahmad Nabil Al-Fadhel | 2124 | |
Fourth Constituency | Thamer Saad Al-Thifeeri | 5601 |
Mubarak Haif Al-Hajraf | 4621 | |
Mohammed Hayef AlـMutairi | 4506 | |
Saad Ali Al-Rusheedi | 3811 | |
Abdullah Fahad Al-Enizi | 3545 | |
Shueib Shabab Al-Muweizri | 3528 | |
Ali Salem Al-Deqbasi | 3379 | |
Askar Auwayed Al-Enizi | 2972 | |
Saud Mohammad Al-Shuwaier | 2897 | |
Marzouq Khalifa Al-Khalifa | 2874 | |
Fifth Constituency | Humoud Abdullah Al-Khudeir | 5072 |
Hamdan Salem Al-Azmi | 5038 | |
Al-Humaidi Bader Al-Subaiee | 4660 | |
Talal Saad Al-Jalaal | 4299 | |
Faisal Mohammad Al-Kanderi | 4114 | |
Khaled Mohammad Al-Otaibi | 3998 | |
Majed Musaaed Al-Mutairi | 3821 | |
Nayef Abdulaziz Al-Ajmi | 3769 | |
Nasser Saad Al-Doussari | 3296 | |
Mohammad Hadi Al-Huweila | 2851 |
Kuwait National Assembly election Details Candidates 2016
- Voter Turnout of 70% . Results Expected by Sunday
- Polls closed in Kuwait for parliamentary elections.
- Polls opened in Kuwait Saturday for seventh general election in a decade at 8:00 am
- 293 candidates in fray with 14 women.
- There are nearly 50 seats up for elections 2016.
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452 committees are there with 259 males and 283 females in 100 schools.
CAPITAL:Kuwait City, POPULATION:3.479 million (WB, 2014), LANGUAGES:Arabic (Official), English - HEAD OF STATE:Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah
- The emir dissolved the last parliament after MPs called for ministers to be grilled over subsidy cuts, in a state with a traditionally generous welfare system
Kuwait National Assembly election Details Candidates 2016
- Earlier schedule – June 2017, the end of the four-year term of the parliament elected in July 2013.
- Latest Schedule – 26 November 2016
- No of electors: 483,000 Kuwaiti men and women are registered to cast their ballots on Election Day.
- Kuwait has had 15 parliaments since its independence in 1961. Only six parliaments ran their terms for the four years, while nine parliaments were dissolved for various reasons.
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Imp Candidates include Saleh Ashour, Abdullah Al Turaiji, Eisa Al Kandari, Adnan Abdul Samad, Mubarak Al Harees, Ahmad Al Mulaifi, Adel Al Damkhi, Osama Al Shaheen, Hussain Al-Qallaf, and his brother Fakher Al Qallaf.
- Prominent candidates in the first district Prominent candidates in the second district are outgoing Speaker Marzouq Al Ghanem, Ahmad Lari, Rakan Al Nasef, Khalaf Dumaitheer, Ahmad Baqer, Fahad Al Khannah, Jamaan Al Harbash and Hamad Al Matar.
- Prominent candidates in the third district Jamal Al Omar, Yaqoub Al Sane, Roudhan Al Roudhan, Khalil Abul, Waleed Al Tabtabaei, Ammar AlAjmi, and Shaye Al Shaye.
- Prominent candidates in the fourth district are Askar Al Enezi, Mubarak Al Khrainej, Mohammad Tana, Osama Al Munawer, Shuaib Al Muwaizri and Mohammad Hayef.
- Prominent candidates in the fifth district are Hamdan Al Azemi, Mohammad Al Huwailah, and Nayef Al Merdas.
About Kuwait National Assembly election
Early general elections will be 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.Under the constitution, elections must be held within two months.
Electoral system in Kuwait:
The 50 elected members of the National Assembly are elected from five 10-seat constituencies by plurality voting.
Population (as of May 27, 2015): 2,742,711
Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: Amir SABAH al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah
- Head of Government: Prime Minister JABIR AL-MUBARAK al-Hamad al-Sabah
- Assembly: Kuwait has a unicameral National Assembly (Majlis al-Umma) with 65 seats.