Due to the voting system, Mongolia experienced extreme shifts in the composition of the parliament after the 1996, 2000, and 2004 elections, so it has changed to a system in which some seats are filled on the basis of votes for local candidates, and some on the basis of nationwide party preference totals.
28 seats are chosen from nationwide closed party lists using the Largest remainder method.
Mongolia also holds local elections in October of the same year, with 8031 seats across 2395 constituencies in all 9 districts, 21 provinces, and 331 sums (county) and Citizen Representative Khural (local governing councils) in Majoritarian system.
In the 2012 legislative elections, the MPRP and Mongolian National Democratic Party ran together as the Justice Coalition, winning 11 seats.
[4] Preliminary results showed the ruling Mongolia People's Party had won a narrow and reduced majority[5] in the Khural, which allowed Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene to publicly claim victory.