The Mongolian Presidential Election will be held on 26th of June, 2017. According to Mongolian law, the election date must be announced 150 days before polling.
On 24th of January, the Standing Committee on government affairs backed the draft law on the presidential election. The draft law will next be discussed in parliament.
Here are some facts about previous Mongolian presidential elections:
- A total of 1,234,692 voters participated in the 2013 presidential election. In other words – over a third of all Mongolians.
- President Ts.Elbegdorj from the Democratic Party received 620,123 votes, B.Bat-Erdene from the Mongolian People’s Party won 512,209 votes and N.Udval from the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party won 80,398 votes.