Parliamentary elections in Mongolia 1924–1949

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The parliamentary elections in Mongolia in 1924–1949 were all indirect elections . Nine elections took place during this period, and the parliaments elected in this way only met for a two-week session.

background

In 1921 the Mongolian People's Party took power in the country and proclaimed the Mongolian People's Republic . The traditional elites were disempowered, and the country became the second communist state in the world to come under the influence of the Soviet Union . The Constitution of the Mongolian People's Republic of 1924 formally gave the country a parliamentary system of government, with an indirectly elected “Grand Assembly” ( Ich Chural ), which only met on special occasions, and a “Small Assembly” ( Baga Chural ), which was organized by the large Assembly was elected and represented the actual parliament .

Electoral system

The electoral law of September 21, 1924 provided for indirect, not general and public elections. At public gatherings in their respective hometowns, the electorate elected local Churale by show of hands, which in turn determined the members of the Ich Chural . A total of nine such elections took place in 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1934, 1940 and 1949. The number of MPs elected in this way increased with each election, rising from 90 in the first election in 1924 515 in the last such election. All citizens over 18 years of age with their own income were entitled to vote, members of the old elites and (from 1940) counter-revolutionaries were denied the right to vote.

literature

  • Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz, Christof Hartmann (Eds.): Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume II: South East Asia, East Asia and the South Pacific. Oxford University Press, New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-924959-6 , pp. 481-485.