This is the first time that the MP's would be chosen by party-list proportional representation.

The Nur Otan won a majority of 26 out of 31 seats in the City Mäslihat.

Despite the race being non-partisan, many independent candidates complained about being barred from running due to alleged "inconsistency of the data in the tax returns".

[2] After President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced constitutional reforms in 2017 which would give lawmakers more power and decentralize the government, an amendment was passed by the Parliament which would allow for local elections to the Mäslihats be more partisan, thus giving greater role for political parties to nominate its candidates.

[3] However this made practically impossible for self-nominated independent candidates to be compete in the elections since the law requires all Mäslihat councillors to be part of political parties.