2018 Afghan parliamentary election

2018 Afghan parliamentary election

← 2010 20 and 27 October 2018

All 249 seats to the House of the People

Speaker before election

Abdul Raouf Ebrahimi
Independent

Elected Speaker

Mir Rahman Rahmani
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Afghanistan on Saturday 20 October 2018 to elect members of the House of the People.[1][2] 3,296,643 people voted, 42% of registered voters. They had originally been scheduled for 15 October 2016,[3] but were initially postponed to 7 July 2018,[4] and then again to 20 October.[5] Much of the prelude to the elections focused on the debate over reforming the country's electoral laws. The current system is one of single non-transferable vote.[6] Kandahar's election was held on October 27.[7][8] Polls were also delayed in Ghazni, due to an intensifying Taliban insurgency in the province, and as of September 2020 still have not been held.[9][10] The new Parliament was inaugurated on 26 April 2019.[11]

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