| Election Name: | 2020 Kuwaiti general election |
| Country: | Kuwait |
| Previous Election: | 2016 |
| Next Election: | 2022 |
| Seats For Election: | 50 of the 65 seats in the National Assembly |
| Turnout: | 69.4% (4.2pp) |
| Election Date: | 5 December 2020 |
General elections were held in Kuwait on 5 December 2020.[1] [2] [3] Two-thirds of the incumbents lost their seats, including the 2016 parliament's sole woman MP Safa Al Hashem.[4]
Registration of candidates contesting for the 50 seats of the National Assembly took place between 26 October and 4 November 2020.[5] [6] 102 schools were used for the 2020 National Assembly elections on December 5.[7] Each school had a clinic set up to check on the health condition of all those entering.[8]
The 50 elected members of the National Assembly are elected from five 10-seat constituencies by single non-transferable vote.[9] Political parties are not officially licensed, therefore candidates run as individuals, although many political groups operate freely as de facto political parties.[10] All Kuwaiti citizens (both male and female) above the age of 21 have the right to vote. Expatriate workers, who constituted 70% of the population, were not enfranchised.
Overall, opposition candidates won 24 seats, up from 16 in the previous parliament. The election was seen as a victory for the anti-government opposition bloc. Thirty of the elected candidates were under the age of 45; whilst there were 29 female candidates, none were elected, leaving the parliament without a female MP for the first time since the year 2012. There was a total of 567,694 registered voters, of which 394,131 cast a valid vote.[11]
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left rowspan=10 | First Constituency | Hassan Abdullah Johar | 5,849 | Elected |
| Yusuf Fahad Al-Ghurayyeb | 5,064 | Elected | ||
| Ahmad Khalifa Al-Shuhoomi | 4,129 | Elected | ||
| Hamad Ahmad Rouhuddine | 3,783 | Elected | ||
| Essa Ahmad Al-Kandari | 3,398 | Elected | ||
| Ali Abdulrasoul Al-Qattan | 3,320 | Elected | ||
| Adnan Abdulsamad Zahed | 3,052 | Elected | ||
| Abdullah Mohammad Al-Turaiji | 2,472 | Elected | ||
| Abdullah Jassem Al-Mudhaf | 3,437 | Elected | ||
| Osama Essa Al-Shaheen | 2,167 | Elected | ||
| align=left rowspan=10 | Second Constituency | Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanim | 5,179 | Elected |
| Mohammad Barrak Al-Mutair | 3,456 | Elected | ||
| Khalil Ibrahim Al-Saleh | 3,117 | Elected | ||
| Hammad Mohammad Al-Matar | 2,903 | Elected | ||
| Salman Khaled Al-Azmi | 2,866 | Elected | ||
| Khaled Ayed Al-Enezi | 2,565 | Elected | ||
| Bader Nasser Al-Humaidi | 2,534 | Elected | ||
| Bader Hamed Al-Mulla | 2,483 | Elected | ||
| Hamad Saif Al-Harshani | 2,208 | Elected | ||
| Ahmad Mohammad Al-Hamad | 2,195 | Elected | ||
| align=left rowspan=10 | Third Constituency | Abdulkareem Abdullah Al-Kandari | 5,585 | Elected |
| Osama Ahmad Al-Munawer | 3,858 | Elected | ||
| Muhannad Talal Al-Sayer | 3,565 | Elected | ||
| Hesham Abdulsamad Al-Saleh | 3,345 | Elected | ||
| Abdulaziz Tareq Al-Saqabi | 3,340 | Elected | ||
| Yusuf Saleh Al-Fadhalah | 2,992 | Elected | ||
| Mubarak Zaid Al-Mutairi | 2,982 | Elected | ||
| Saadoun Hammad Al-Otaibi | 2,979 | Elected | ||
| Fares Saad Al-Otaibi | 2,942 | Elected | ||
| Muhalhal Khaled Al-Mudhaf | 2,904 | Elected | ||
| align=left rowspan=10 | Fourth Constituency | Shuaib Shabbab Al-Muwaizri | 6,200 | Elected |
| Fayez Ghannam Al-Mutairi | 5,774 | Elected | ||
| Musa'ad Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi | 5,750 | Elected | ||
| Mohammad Obaid Al-Rajhi | 5,198 | Elected | ||
| Saud Saad Al-Mutairi | 5,100 | Elected | ||
| Thamer Saad Al-Dhefeeri | 4,935 | Elected | ||
| Marzouq Khalifa Al-Khalifa | 4,760 | Elected | ||
| Farz Mohammad Al-Daihani | 4,701 | Elected | ||
| Saad Ali Al-Rashidi | 4,520 | Elected | ||
| Mubarak Haif Al-Hajraf | 4,422 | Elected | ||
| align=left rowspan=10 | Fifth Constituency | Hamdan Salem Al-Azmi | 8,387 | Elected |
| Bader Zayed Al-Azmi | 8,371 | Elected | ||
| Mubarak Abdullah Al-Ajmi | 6,801 | Elected | ||
| Al-Saifi Mubarak Al-Ajmi | 6,294 | Elected | ||
| Khaled Mohammad Al-Otaibi | 5,387 | Elected | ||
| Humoud Mebrek Al-Azmi | 5,347 | Elected | ||
| Saleh Theyab Al-Mutairi | 5,113 | Elected | ||
| Nasser Saad Al-Doseri | 4,750 | Elected | ||
| Mohammad Hadi Al-Huweila | 4,720 | Elected | ||
| Ahmad Abdullah Al-Azmi | 4,651 | Elected | ||
| align=left colspan=4 | Source: KUNA (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) |
Following the elections, a new Speaker of the National Assembly was elected on 15 December. Incumbent Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim was re-elected with 33 votes, defeating Bader Nasser Al-Humaidi, who received 28. Four members did not vote.
Parliament unanimously approved a motion of noncooperation, meaning the cabinet must be replaced.[12]