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Rising Legal Quota for Women Parliamentary Candidates

Uzbekistan · Tashkent · See the Uzbekistan profile · See the Tashkent profile

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Uzbekistan's legal candidate quota for women rose from 30% (2019) to 40% (2024). Women's share of elected Legislative Chamber deputies grew from 32% to 38% over the same period, per IFES and IPU data.

30%
Candidate quota, 2019 (2019)
40%
Candidate quota, 2024 (2024)
48 seats (32%)
Women elected deputies, 2019-2020 (2019-2020)
57 seats (38%)
Women elected deputies, 2024 (2024)
Rising Legal Quota for Women Parliamentary Candidates

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Central Election Commission of Uzbekistan
Period
2019–present (quota raised in 2024)
Keywords
electoral reform, political participation, governance

Context

Uzbekistan's 2019 Electoral Code introduced a mandatory 30% minimum quota for women among each party's candidates for the Legislative Chamber, first applied in the December 2019-January 2020 elections when all 150 seats were directly elected for the first time; the quota was raised to 40% ahead of the October 2024 elections.

Results

Women's share of elected deputies rose from 48 seats (32%) after the 2019-2020 elections to 57 seats (38%) after the 2024 elections, according to IFES and IPU Parline data.

Conclusions

The source notes that while the OSCE/ODIHR's 2024 election observation mission found the wider election did not meet international democratic standards, the quota mechanism itself has a clear, independently verified record of increasing women's numerical representation across two consecutive election cycles.

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