2023 Almaty City Mäslihat election

Elections to the Almaty City Mäslihat were held on 19 March 2023 to elect the 42 members of the 8th Almaty City Mäslihat to coincide with the 2023 Kazakh local elections. The newly elected five-year term composition of the Mäslihat was formed by a mixed electoral system for the first time, in which half of the seats are elected from single-member districts and party-list proportional representation, respectively.

Out of the party-list elected seats, the majority was taken by the ruling Amanat party, they gained 12 out of 21. The other parties that got represented, going from most to least seats, are Respublica, the People's Party, Baytaq and Aq Jol.

Background
As a result of the 2021 Almaty City Mäslihat election, the ruling Nur Otan (now known as Amanat) got the majority of seats in the Mäslihat.

Before this election, the deputies used to be directly-elected through proportional representation for a five year term, with a 7% electoral threshold. 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.

Following a constitutional referendum in a September 2022 State of the Nation Address, Tokayev announced a snap local elections for mäslihat deputies to take place in the first half of 2023 in parr with the Mäjilis election.

Electoral system
Since Tokayev's March 2022 Presidential Address to the Nation, the members are elected through a mixed electoral system, in which half of the seats are elected from single-member districts and party-list proportional representation, respectively.