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General election in Kuwait
2016 Kuwaiti general election 50 of the 65 seats in the
National Assembly Turnout 65.2% ( 13.3pp)
Early general elections were 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.
[1] Under the
constitution , elections must be held within two months.
[2] Opposition candidates won 24 of the 50 seats in the
National Assembly .
[3] Voter turnout was around 70 percent.
[3]
Electoral system
The 50 elected members of the National Assembly were elected from five 10-seat constituencies by
single non-transferable vote .
[4]
Results
Opposition Islamist candidates (Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi) won around half of the 24 seats won by the opposition, whilst the Shia minority was reduced to six seats from ten seats.
[5]
[6] One woman was elected, with only around 20 of the 42 MPs seeking re-election retaining their seats.
[7] Members of Kuwait's largest tribes together won just seven seats in the election, down from fifteen.
[8]
Constituency
Candidate
Votes
Notes
First Constituency
Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad
4,287
Elected
Essa Ahmad Al-Kanderi
4,077
Elected
Mohammad Mirwi Al-Hadiyah
3,016
Elected
Adel Jassem Al-Damkhi
2,758
Elected
Abdullah Al-Roumi
2,731
Elected
Saleh Ashour
2,541
Elected
Mubarak Salem Al-Harees
2,444
Elected
Osama Essa Al-Shaheen
2,270
Elected
Khaled Hussein Al-Shatti
2,166
Elected
Salah Abduredha Khourshid
2,131
Elected
Second Constituency
Marzouq Al-Ghanim
4,119
Elected
Riyadh Ahmad Al-Adsani
3,578
Elected
Khalil Ibrahim Al-Saleh
2,914
Elected
Jamaan Thaher Al-Herbish
2,432
Elected
Hamad Seif Al-Harshani
2,341
Elected
Mohammed Al-Mutair
2,172
Elected
Khalaf Dumaitheer Al-Enizi
1,942
Elected
Rakan Al-Nisf
1,888
Elected
Oudah Oudah Al-Ruwaiee
1,772
Elected
Omar Al-Tabtabaee
1,755
Elected
Third Constituency
Abdulwahab Al-Babtain
3,730
Elected
Sadoon Al-Otaibi
3,444
Elected
Youssef Saleh Al-Fedhalah
3,399
Elected
Abdulkarim Al-Kanderi
3,325
Elected
Safaa Abdurrahman Al-Hashim
3,273
Elected
Mohammad Hussein Al-Dalaal
2,533
Elected
Waleed Al-Tabtabaie
2,504
Elected
Khalil Abdullah Abul
2,443
Elected
Mohammad Nasser Al-Jabri
2,219
Elected
Ahmad Nabil Al-Fadhel
2,124
Elected
Fourth Constituency
Thamer Saad Al-Thifeeri
5,601
Elected
Mubarak Haif Al-Hajraf
4,621
Elected
Mohammed Hayef Al-Mutairi
4,506
Elected
Saad Ali Al-Rusheedi
3,811
Elected
Abdullah Fahad Al-Enizi
3,545
Elected
Shueib Shabab Al-Muweizri
3,528
Elected
Ali Salem Al-Deqbasi
3,379
Elected
Askar Auwayed Al-Enizi
2,972
Elected
Saud Mohammad Al-Shuwaier
2,897
Elected
Marzouq Khalifa Al-Khalifa
2,874
Elected
Fifth Constituency
Humoud Abdullah Al-Khudeir
5,072
Elected
Hamdan Salem Al-Azmi
5,038
Elected
Al-Humaidi Bader Al-Subaiee
4,660
Elected
Talal Saad Al-Jalaal
4,299
Elected
Faisal Mohammad Al-Kanderi
4,114
Elected
Khaled Mohammad Al-Otaibi
3,998
Elected
Majed Musaaed Al-Mutairi
3,821
Elected
Nayef Abdulaziz Al-Ajmi
3,769
Elected
Nasser Saad Al-Doussari
3,296
Elected
Mohammad Hadi Al-Huweila
2,851
Elected
Source: KUNA (
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Aftermath
Following the elections, a new
Speaker of the National Assembly was elected on 11 December.
Marzouq Al-Ghanim was elected with 48 votes, defeating
Abdullah Al-Roumi (9 votes) and
Shuaib Al-Muwaizri (8 votes).
References