[3] The changes were expected to marginalise smaller parties, and also effectively removed the right of 150,000 Mongolian expatriates to vote, as they could not be registered in a specific constituency.

[3][4] The new electoral law also barred people found guilty of "corrupt practices" from standing in elections.

[6] Currently, female MPs make up 17% (13 seats) in the parliament, the highest number since the first democratic elections in 1990.

The candidate of Our Coalition, former State Great Khural member and vice chairperson of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party Sainkhüügiin Ganbaatar, won a seat, as did candidate of the Right Person Electorate Coalition and Chairperson of the National Labour Party Togmidyn Dorjkhand.

Former Prime Minister of Mongolia Norovyn Altankhuyag won one seat as an Independent candidate.