Uzbekistan conducts electronic voting for first time in Parliament polls

India’s key partner in Central Asia Uzbekistan conducted electronic voting for the first time ever during the Sunday’s polls for the National Parliament.

On October 27, elections were held to the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis (national parliament) of the Republic of Uzbekistan and local Kengashes (Councils) of people's deputies. For the first time in the country's history, electronic voting was conducted on election day at some polling stations in Tashkent as an experiment.

The current elections, for the first time in the history of the country, organized under a mixed electoral system, combining majoritarian and proportional systems, were successful. The elections were observed by more than 850 foreign and international observers.


The elections were also directly observed by 55 thousand observers from political parties and more than 10 thousand observers from self-governing bodies of citizens.

With the help of the ‘E-saylov’ information system launched in preparation for the elections, many electoral processes were digitized, bureaucratic obstacles were dramatically reduced, and transparency was increased.

To broadcast the election process in real time (online), video cameras that meet the necessary technical requirements were installed at polling stations in the districts and cities.

A total of 15,027,529 voters cast their ballots in the elections to the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan and local Kengashes (Councils) of People's Deputies. This is 74.72 percent of the total number of citizens who voted.

The elections to the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis (national parliament) of Uzbekistan and and local Kengashes (Councils) of people's deputies held on October 27 once again demonstrated that the Uzbek people are acting unitedly and in mutual solidarity in the name of building a democratic state governed by the rule of law and the formation of a civil society, further improving the well-being of the population and achieving the high goals set, according to a senior Uzbek official.