# Snap election returns Tokayev with 70.96 percent official

Date: 2019

## The fact

On 9 June 2019 a snap presidential election returned [Kassym-Jomart Tokayev](/people/kassym-jomart-tokayev) with 70.96 percent official. ODIHR’s final report found that the election took place in a political environment dominated by the incumbent and lacked genuine [political competition](/drivers/political-competition).

## Context

He ran as the designated successor. The CEC tabulated. ODIHR observed. This is not the 2022 ballot as a twin.

Acting 20 March; election 9 June 2019; 2022 snap later. Keep dates. Keep Snap election returns Tokayev with 70.96 percent official on 2019-06-09 separate from neighbouring succession, CSTO, shoot-to-kill, 238-list, and snap-election instruments.

The president of Kazakhstan is head of state and commander-in-chief. He can declare an emergency, invite a CSTO contingent, and order lethal force. He does not write ODIHR final reports, does not sit as a UNGA teller, and a Prosecutor-General list is not converted here into a unique UCDP integer.

## Evidence and sources

CEC Kazakhstan carries the official instrument or communique. OSCE/ODIHR records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is electoral integrity: a completed successor ballot ODIHR did not read as genuine competition.

## What is established and what is not

Established: CEC recorded 70.96 percent on 9 June 2019; ODIHR found a lack of genuine political competition.

Not established: That ODIHR authenticated a competitive contest.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The CEC tabulated. ODIHR did not treat it as genuine competition.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Snap election returns Tokayev with 70.96 percent official, not a later speech about Snap election returns Tokayev with 70.96 percent official.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Snap election returns Tokayev with 70.96 percent official on 2019-06-09 is not a licence to treat every later CEC Kazakhstan communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Snap election returns Tokayev with 70.96 percent official into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ran and was certified. The CEC tabulated. ODIHR did not treat it as genuine competition. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kassym-Jomart Tokayev: https://factrail.ai/people/kassym-jomart-tokayev

## Drivers

- Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness

## Sources

- https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/kazakhstan/434389
- https://www.election.gov.kz/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/kz-election-2019