Founded in 1993, it currently consists of 32 members of three parties in which the Nur Otan (NO) has a supermajority of and is currently led by Secretary Älibek Näutiev (NO).

The Atyrau Regional Mäslihat was established on basis of the Law 2578-XII "On local representative and executive bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan" from 10 December 1993.

Members of the Mäslihat were elected for a five-year term from their constituencies using secret ballot and were non-partisan.

The electoral practice continued to be in place until 2018, when the Parliament of Kazakhstan enacted a new law which allowed for political parties to form parliamentary groups within the local legislatures.

[3] Mäslihat members are generally up for re-election every 5 years and are elected on the basis of party-list proportional representation with a required 7% electoral threshold to win any seats in the legislature.