Quorum requirements for a referendum to be valid

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

Answer
Optional referendum - turnout quorum
Source

Constitutional Law on Referendum (2007)

http://www.legislationline.org/documents/id/15834

Article 45. Determination of Results of aReferendum in the Kyrgyz Republic

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2. The Central Referendum Commission shall recognize the referendum as valid ifmore than half of the citizens who have the right for participation in areferendum (referendum participants) have taken part in it. The number ofreferendum participants shall be determined as per the number of ballot papersfor voting of the established format extracted from the ballot boxes forvoting.
3. The Central Referendum Commission shall declare the decision to have beenadopted at the referendum if overall for the Kyrgyz Republic more than half ofthe citizens who took part in voting at the referendum voted for it. Ifalternative options for questions were submitted to the referendum and none ofthe said options has received the necessary number of votes, all of the optionsshall be deemed declined.

 

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50% of electorate
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