KUWAIT, Sept 29 (KUNA) -- Polling stations closed for the National Assembly elections (2022), the 17th legislative term at eight o'clock in the evening local time on Thursday.
The vote counting process began shortly, and will be later followed by announcing the official results and naming the winners for the next four years.
Voters continued throughout the day, precisely for 12 consecutive hours, starting at eight in the morning, in five electoral constituencies, and voters used the one-vote system to select 50 members of the National Assembly from among 305 male and female candidates.
In the first electoral constituency, 48 male and female candidates have competed to win the votes of their constituency, which are 100,185 male and female voters.
In the second constituency, also 48 male and female candidates competed for 10 seats in the constituency, a total of 90,478 voters.
In the third constituency, 47 male and female candidates competed for the votes of 138,364 male and female voters.
In the fourth constituency, 80 male and female candidates are competing for 208,971 electoral votes.
The 82 candidates in the fifth constituency are seeking to collect the votes of their 257,913 male and female voters.
The voting process witnessed tours to polling stations, to check on the progress of the election process, initiated by the Acting Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Acting Minister of Interior Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Oil, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs Acting Dr. Mohammad Al-Faris. (end) ns.mb