I have added the seventy candidates who put their names forward on the second day of registration.

It is election time :). I have posted the candidates who registered the first day.

I’ve updated the listing of government ministers to include the government announced on the 2nd of March.

I’ve posted the candidates for the upcoming election.

I’ve added the new government of December 2019, and made some changes to the previous government.

I have added the new government (which was put in place in December 2017)…

A new government today, following the elections. This is the first new government since 2013, though there was a major cabinet shuffle in January of 2014. The ministry of communications is no more: this ministry (as the ministry of mail, telegraph and telephone) dates back to 1962. Al-Qabas reports that it may be broken up, or may be under the purview of the minister of state for public services (who is also the minister of state for housing). The ministry of planning is also missing, though the previous minister of planning is now the minister of state for the economy, which is a new post. The ministers of interior and defense swapped posts, presumably to protect the former minister of interior from interpellation over the issues such as the withdrawal of citizenship.

I have updated the results for the 2016 general election from the complete results posted by al-Anba (http://www.alanba.com.kw/elections/). These results appear to be an updated version of the results posted by the ministry of Information immediately following the election.

The vote totals for the top 12 candidates in each district are the official results from KUNA (which are the same as those reported in the newspapers). The vote totals for candidates who came in below the top 12 in each district are from the Ministry of Information web site, as of the morning of the 27th. Those results are now not available on the ministry website, or any other official source (as of the afternoon of the 27th). The numbers reported on this website, for all except the top 12 candidates in each district, are thus from an official source, but probably are not the final results. I’m hoping for complete, official results eventually.

All of the initial results, from the Ministry of Information’s website, are up. Two precincts in the 5th district still have not reported results as of 5:30am.