In the party-list contest, the ruling Amanat party secured a majority, winning 12 out of 21 seats.
Notably, independents were elected for the first time since 2016, following the restoration of the mixed electoral system in the 2022 referendum.
From there, Stanislav Kankurov, the first deputy chairman of the Nur Otan party in Almaty, was subsequently elected as the mäslihat's new secretary for the first time since 2014 during its opening session of the 7th convocation.
Before this election, the deputies used to be directly-elected through proportional representation for a five-year term, with a 7% electoral threshold.
[3] In the aftermath of the 2022 Kazakh unrest, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in his March 2022 State of the Nation Address unveiled a series of reforms, including the changing of the electoral system of all mäslihats into a mixed one.