"Dear fellow party members, I congratulate everyone on the convincing victory of the Nur Otan party in these elections," RIA Novosti quotes him as saying on the air of the Khabar 24 TV channel.

Nazarbayev noted that the residents of Kazakhstan associate the further development of the country with the Nur Otan party.

Earlier, the CEC of Kazakhstan reported that the turnout in the elections of deputies of the Mazhilis (lower house) of parliament after the closure of polling stations in the country by 22:00 (19:00 Moscow time) was 63.3%.