Elections in South Ossetia

South Ossetia elects on the national level a head of state—the President—and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. The Parliament of South Ossetia has 34 members, elected for a five-year term using party-list proportional representation.

Latest elections

Presidential elections

On 10 April 2022, incumbent President Anatoly Bibilov lost the first round of the presidential election to Alan Gagloev, who received most votes.^[1]^[2] As none of the candidates received more than 50% of the vote, a requirement to win the presidency, a second round was called between Bibilov and Gagloyev. The three eliminated candidates declared their support for Gagloyev for the second round, which was scheduled for 8 May 2022, after initial confusion over its date.^[3] Gagloyev won this round with 56.2% of the vote. The Election Commission set the transfer of power on 24 May 2022.^[4]

According to local experts, Bibilov's defeat after an easy victory in 2017 can be explained by the number of scandals and abuse of power accusations that took place in recent years. There was for example the scandal around the Murder of Inal Djabiev, which caused civil unrest and a paralyzed parliament.^[5]


Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
Candidate		Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Alan Gagloev	Nykhaz	10,707	38.55	16,134	56.08
	Anatoly Bibilov	United Ossetia	9,706	34.95	11,767	40.90
	Aleksandr Pliyev	People's Party	3,434	12.37
	Garry Muldarov	Independent	2,592	9.33
	Dmitry Tasoyev	Independent	822	2.96
None of the above			510	1.84	867	3.01
Total			27,771	100.00	28,768	100.00

Valid votes			27,771	95.57	28,768	97.77
Invalid/blank votes			1,286	4.43	655	2.23
Total votes			29,057	100.00	29,423	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			39,282	73.97	39,798	73.93
Source: CIKRUO, CIKRUO

Parliamentary elections



Party		Proportional			District			Total seats	+/–
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats	+/–
	United Ossetia	7,778	34.96	7	4,713	24.17	7	14	–6
	People's Party of South Ossetia	4,849	21.79	4	1,776	9.11	1	5	+1
	Nykhaz	3,198	14.37	3	1,211	6.21	1	4	0
	Unity of the People	2,883	12.96	2	2,139	10.97	1	3	–3
	Communist Party of South Ossetia	1,622	7.29	1	1,263	6.48	1	2	+2
	Fatherland Socialist Party	710	3.19	0	7	0.04	0	0	0
	Unity Party	630	2.83	0			0	0	0
	Homeland				272	1.40	0	0	0
	Independents				6,993	35.87	6	6	+6
Against all		579	2.60	–	1,123	5.76	–	–	–
Total		22,249	100.00	17	19,497	100.00	17	34	0

Valid votes		22,249	95.28		19,497	94.94
Invalid/blank votes		1,102	4.72		1,040	5.06
Total votes		23,351	100.00		20,537	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		35,254	66.24		33,954	60.48
Source: CIKRUO,^[6] Respublika^[7]