On June 29, Mongolians headed to the polls for parliamentary elections. Nearly 500 candidates were in the running for 76 seats in the State Great Khural. When the counting was over, the opposition Mongolian People’s Party had claimed a landslide victory, securing a projected 65 seats. The ruling Democratic Party, meanwhile, will have only nine seats when the new parliament takes office.
Below, The Diplomat’s Peter Bittner provides a first-hand look at the campaigning and voting in Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar.