Constituency No. 2 (Kazakhstan)

The Constituency No. 2 is situated in the southeastern part of Astana and includes the city districts of Esil and Saryarqa. It shares borders with No. 9 (Akmola Region) to the south and No. 1 (Astana) to the northeast.^[2]

The Constituency No. 2 was formed for the 2004 legislative election as a result of redistribution within the boundaries of Astana, and Tölegen Muhamedjanov served as deputy from the territorial constituency.^[3] From there, the electoral district continued to exist until its dissolution following the 2007 constitutional amendment, which led to the abolition of all constituencies as part of the transition from a mixed-member majoritarian representation to a fully party-list proportional representation system.^[4][5][6] The change affected the composition of all seats in the lower chamber Mäjilis of the Kazakh Parliament beginning with the 2007 legislative election.^[7][8]

On 24 December 2022, the Constituency No. 2 was reestablished by the Central Election Commission, which came into effect on 1 January 2023 as a result of the 2022 amendment.^[9][10] The adoption of this amendment marked the reintroduction of a mixed electoral system for electing Mäjilis deputies, with the use of numbered constituencies being reinstated for the first time since 2004.^[11][12] It made its debut in the 2023 legislative election, with Däulet Muqaev becoming the elected representative of the constituency.^[13]