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{{Politics of Qatar}}

Municipal elections were held in [[Qatar]] on 1 April 2007 for the third time.<ref>[http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13610/195/ Vote prepares Qatar for key polls] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014011201/http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13610/195/ |date=October 14, 2007 }} MWC News, 1 April 2007</ref> Three women and 122 men ran for 29 seats in the [[Central Municipal Council]]. About 28,000 citizens of the 174,000 Qataris were able to vote,<ref>[http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/31/africa/ME-GEN-Qatar-Local-Elections.php Qatar's municipal balloting seen as democracy test ahead of parliament elections] International Herald Tribune, 31 March 2007</ref> and overall turnout was 51.1 per cent.

One of the three female candidates, [[Sheikha Yousuf Hasan Al Jufairi]], was elected with the highest number of votes of all 125 candidates. Turnout in her Airport constituency was the lowest in the country at 28 per cent, while turnout in [[Al Shamaliyya]] and [[Madinat ash Shamal|Shamal]] was over 80 per cent.

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