A study of the history of electoral law development provides a clear understanding of how it will evolve in the future, especially in the post-Soviet space. The purpose of the study is to identify the legal stages of the development of electoral law through the adoption of constitutional norms in the Republics of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and to carry out a comparative analysis of these stages between the countries studied. The main methods used are the historical and legal method, which analyses the development of constitutional and legal norms and identifies the stages in the development of electoral law, and the comparative-legal method, which compares the constitutions and electoral law norms in the two countries. The result of the study is an identification of the specific stages of change in constitutional provisions relating to the electoral law, and an analysis of these changes and their impact on electoral law and the

political regime in post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. A description of the amendments that have been made to the Constitution in the context of electoral law has been carried out, and the consequences of the adoption and amendment of the Basic Law for the change of the political regime in the state have been identified.

Highlights

• Practices of constitutional change in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were also compared and the countries’ experiences of transition to democratic principles of state-building were studied. The study has both theoretical and practical significance in providing a detailed and structured understanding of the development of electoral law in post-Soviet countries.