2019 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
The Kansas Jayhawks entered the game with high hopes and expectations--"convinced" that they would win largely based on performance in their previous two games. However, the Jayhawks only managed a field goal in the first quarter and did not score again until they managed a touchdown in the fourth quarter. That touchdown was the final score of the game:  Kansas State 38; Kansas 10.


2019 Kansas Lottery 300
The 2019 Kansas Lottery 300 is a NASCAR Xfinity Series race held on October 19, 2019, at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. Contested over 200 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) asphalt speedway, it was the 30th race of the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, fourth race of the Playoffs, and the first race of the Round of 8.


2019 Kansas Lottery 300, Background, Track
Kansas Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) tri-oval race track in Kansas City, Kansas. It was built in 2001 and it currently hosts two annual NASCAR race weekends. The IndyCar Series also held races at the venue until 2011. The speedway is owned and operated by the International Speedway Corporation.


2019 Kansas Lottery 300, Practice, First practice
Cole Custer was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 31.116 seconds and a speed of 173.544 mph (279.292 km/h).


2019 Kansas Lottery 300, Practice, Final practice
Tyler Reddick was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 31.104 seconds and a speed of 173.611 mph (279.400 km/h).


2019 Kansas Lottery 300, Qualifying
Christopher Bell scored the pole for the race with a time of 29.807 seconds and a speed of 181.165 mph (291.557 km/h).


2019 Kansas Lottery 300, Race, Summary
Christopher Bell started on pole and lead all of Stage 1, also gaining the stage points. Austin Cindric pitted shortly before the end of the stage and did not gain stage points.


2019 Kansas Lottery 300, Race, Summary
On lap 71, Cindric hit Harrison Burton while they were racing each other. Burton then went down on Cindric, but ultimately shot himself into the wall and ended his day. Cindric then had to pit twice during the green flag for tire rub issues. Cole Custer won Stage 2 ahead of Bell and Tyler Reddick.


2019 Kansas Lottery 300, Race, Summary
On lap 151, Justin Haley drove into Custer, who managed to save his car but lost several positions. On lap 164, John Hunter Nemechek spun, bringing out a caution. All the leaders got one set of fresh tires in the pit stops, and everyone except Michael Annett opted to pit.


2019 Kansas Lottery 300, Race, Summary
With 15 to go, Chase Briscoe and Bell were in a tight battle for the lead and they approached Garrett Smithley, who drove slightly up the race track. Briscoe and Bell were unsure where Smithley would go, resulting in them both plowed into him. The restart caused another caution as Joey Gase and Noah Gragson were involved in an accident.


2019 Kansas Lottery 300, Race, Summary
On the restart, Brandon Jones grabbed the lead from Briscoe. Reddick passed Briscoe and made up a lot of ground, but ran out of time. Jones took his first win by holding off Reddick.


2019 Kansas Lottery 300, Race, Summary
Due to Jones taking the victory, none of the playoff drivers locked themselves into the final round of the playoffs after the race. Briscoe, Annett, Gragson, and Cindric exited the race below the cutoff line.


2019 Kansas Lottery 300, Race, Summary
After the race, Custer and Reddick were involved in a physical altercation; Custer was upset at Reddick sliding them up the track during a restart. Reddick was annoyed when Custer placed his hand on his shoulder, and quickly responded by shoving him. Their crews quickly got involved, and Reddick ultimately received a cut over his eye from being thrown to the ground.


2019 Kansas Lottery 300, Race, Final Stage Results
. – Driver advanced to the next round of the playoffs.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team
The 2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Wildcats played their home games at Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium in Manhattan, Kansas, and competed in the Big 12 Conference. They were led by first-year head coach Chris Klieman, who accepted the role after the retirement of long-time head coach Bill Snyder.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll
The 2019 Big 12 media days were held July 15–16, 2019 in Frisco, Texas. In the Big 12 preseason media poll, Kansas State was predicted to finish in ninth in the standings.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Schedule
Kansas State's 2019 schedule began with three non-conference games: at home against Nicholls of the Southland Conference, at home against Bowling Green of the Mid-American Conference, and on the road against Mississippi State of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). In Big 12 Conference play, the Wildcats will play five home games against Baylor, TCU, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Iowa State; and will play four road games against Oklahoma State, Kansas, Texas, and Texas Tech.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Nicholls
Kansas State scored touchdowns on their first four possessions and were successful 10 of 12 attempts on third down in 80 offensive plays. Kansas State also managed the clock, being on offense for more than 41 minutes. ESPN Reported:  "The Wildcats looked a lot like Klieman's teams at North Dakota State, winning the battle in the trenches and rotating running backs every couple of plays. The result was a team that was fresher and more physical as the game went along."


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Nicholls
For Nicholls, this was largely different compared to last year's opener when they defeated the Kansas Jayhawks. The Colonel's Kendall Bussey and Julien Gums both produced second-half touchdown runs to put their team on the board, but it wasn't nearly enough. Despite the loss, Nicholls managed to move up in the FCS coaches poll, going from #11 to #10.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Bowling Green
Kansas State's defense set the goal of holding Bowling Green to zero points. They almost missed that goal early in the third quarter, when K-State's Phillip Brooks dropped the first of two punts in the game. That fumble gave Bowling Green possession on the 33-yard line. Then Kansas State linebacker Daniel Green forced a fumble that was recovered by freshman linebacker Khalid Duke. Kansas State continued to hold on defense to meet the goal of holding Bowling Green to zero points.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Bowling Green
The Wildcats controlled the game on both offense and defense to secure the win 52-0. This was Kansas State's first shutout in more than four years when they beat South Dakota 34-0 on September 15, 2015. Bowling Green only advanced past midfield three times  The shutout was Bowling Green's first since losing 37-0 at Virginia Tech in 2012.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Bowling Green
Bowling Green managed 140 total yards (79 passing and 61 rushing) and completed just 8 of 19 passes. Kansas State led 31-0 and put up over 300 yards of total offense before the game was halfway through the second quarter. Kansas State ended up with 521 total yards by the end of the game. It marked the 23 consecutive win for head coach Chris Klieman.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Mississippi State
Kansas State completed its first non-conference road win over a "power-conference" opponent since 2011. Leading most of the game, Kansas State found itself trailing for the first time all season late in the third quarter. But early in the fourth quarter, Malik Knowles returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Mississippi State
Mississippi State led in almost every statistical category:  more first downs (21-17); more total yards (352-269), more yards rushing (201-146), and more yards passing (151-123). Both teams committed 3 turnovers and 7 penalties and Mississippi State controlled the game clock, holding possession for 33:05 to K-States 26:55.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Mississippi State
Solid statistical production wasn't enough, as Kansas State ended up winning the game 31-24. The following week, Kansas State was ranked #25 in the Coaches Poll and received votes in the AP Top 25 poll. Mississippi State received votes in both polls but was dropped from the Coaches Poll. After the first three games, the Orlando Sentinel named Kansas State as one of five "surprising starts" for college football teams.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Oklahoma State
Oklahoma State's Chuba Hubbard ran for 296 yards, averaging 11.8 per attempt in a leading effort to hand Kansas State their first loss of the season. Coming into the game, Kansas State was #7 in team rushing and averaged 280 yards  Oklahoma State's defense contributed well to the win as they held Kansas State to just 126 rushing yards, with only 18 of those yards in the first half.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Oklahoma State
Kansas State worked on a fourth-quarter comeback, but Oklahoma State was able to control the clock and win the game 26-13.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Baylor
Announced a week before the game on the Team's Twitter page, Kansas State would wear white helmets and white pants for the Fort Riley Day game against Baylor. This would be the first time since 2008 that the team would wear any color pants besides grey, when they wore purple pants.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Baylor
Baylor's defense proved formidable and produced two turnovers, while their offense completed a balanced run game. Baylor remained undefeated with the 31-12 win over Kansas State.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, TCU
Both Texas Christian and Kansas State entered the game having a week off from the regular season schedule. TCU featured quarterback Alex Delton, a former player for Kansas State who transferred to TCU during the off-season. But when the game time came around, Delton only completed two passes for a total of six yards and the bulk of the passing was completed by freshman Max Duggan, who put up 29 passes with 16 completions for a total of 132 yards passing.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, TCU
Kansas State gained an early 7-0 lead and never trailed the rest of the way. TCU head coach Gary Patterson said, “I think you have an 80 percent chance of getting beat if you have a punt blocked.”  Kansas State did block a punt in this game, as did Iowa State in the previous game for TCU that they also lost. The final score of the game was Kansas State 24, Texas Christian 17.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
Oklahoma traveled to Manhattan expecting a relatively easy road win but instead were pushed to what experts expected to be a critical loss for the Sooners in their hunt for the national title. The loss ended what was at the time the nation's longest road win streak.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
Oklahoma's cornerback Parnell Motley was ejected from the game for unsportsmanlike conduct after kicking a Kansas State player. Kansas State's Eric Gallon forced a key fumble on a kick return but in process suffered a severe knee injury and he missed the rest of the game.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
Oklahoma worked toward a fourth-quarter comeback, calling and recovering an onside kick with 1:43 left in the fourth quarter while down by seven points. After the initial call of a recovery by Oklahoma's Trejan Bridges, officials ruled that a player for Oklahoma had touched the ball before the kick went 10 yards and awarded possession to Kansas State. Officials for the conference later reviewed the call and supported the decision. Kansas State then ran out the clock for the win.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
K-State's Skylar Thompson threw for 213 yards and ran for four touchdowns. Oklahoma fell four spots to #9 and Kansas State rose seven spots to #26 in the USA TODAY Sports Re-Rank 1-130.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Kansas
Both Kansas and Kansas State came in to the 2019 Sunflower Showdown coming off wins:  Kansas State defeating Oklahoma and Kansas defeating Texas Tech. Both teams come in after solid growth and improvement through the season and enter the game excited for their rivalry.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Kansas
Kansas State scored a touchdown on its first possession and held the lead for the remainder of the game. Kansas State's offensive line was praised for their control of the line of scrimmage to help the Wildcats rush for 342 yards and five touchdowns. On Defense, Kansas State held their rival Jayhawks to just 10 points. Defensively, Kansas State also completed two interceptions and sacked Kansas quarterback Carter Stanley four times. Stanley's passing production was 13-for-23 with 123 yards, significantly less than the over 400 yards against Texas Tech and over 300 yards he accomplished against the Texas Longhorns in recent play.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Kansas
The Kansas Jayhawks entered the game with high hopes and expectations--"convinced" that they would win largely based on performance in their previous two games. However, the Jayhawks only managed a field goal in the first quarter and did not score again until they managed a touchdown in the fourth quarter. That touchdown was the final score of the game:  Kansas State 38; Kansas 10.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Kansas
After the win and becoming bowl eligible, ESPN analysts Kyle Bonagura and Mark Schlabach both projected that Kansas State will play Notre Dame in the Camping World Bowl on December 28 in Orlando, Florida as a part of their Week 10 predictions  Chris Low of ESPN commented that Kansas State is "going to be a tough out for anybody it faces the rest of the way" and that "the Wildcats are as fundamentally sound as it gets when it comes to running the ball and stopping the run."


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Kansas
Low further stated that Kansas State has a great chance to win nine or more games for the season. Kansas State's projected bowl opponents Notre Dame (ranked #15 after this week) "did not exactly play an inspired game in a come-from-behind win over Virginia Tech" according to ESPN Analyst Andrea Adelson. However, Notre Dame is projected for a ten-win season.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Texas
In the days leading up to the Kansas State-Texas game, the College Football Playoff committee ranked Kansas State at #16 in the first playoff ranking of the season. This was measurably higher than the #20 in the AP Poll and #22 in the USA Today Poll. On that same day, Texas football quarterback Sam Ehlinger was named a semifinalist for the 2019 Wuerffel Trophy.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Texas
The game started with Kansas State taking a 14-point lead in the first quarter and allowed Texas to score a touchdown, making it 14-7 at halftime. Texas took the lead in the third quarter with ten more points to put it at 14-17. Each team added 10 more points in the fourth quarter to make the final score a Texas win 27-24, punctuated with a 26-yard game-winning field goal by the Longhorn's Cameron Dicker just as the clock ran out.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, West Virginia
West Virginia's Jarret Doege started at quarterback and threw for 234 yards and three touchdowns. This was the first start at West Virginia for Doege who transferred from Bowling Green, as Austin Kendall had been the starting quarterback all season for the Mountaineers. Doege's biggest throw was a 50-yard touchdown pass on third-and-22 in the fourth quarter to take the lead.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, West Virginia
Kansas State started strong, holding West Virginia to "three-and-out" and then Skylar Thompson threw a 68-yard touchdown pass on their first play from scrimmage. Thompson ended up 24 of 39 for 299 yards passing with a touchdown but also gave up two interceptions. On the ground, the Wildcats ran the ball 32 times but averaged only 3.2 yards per attempt.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, West Virginia
West Virginia cornerback Hakeem Bailey intercepted Skylar Thompson's pass toward the end zone in the closing seconds of the game. The Mountaineers left Manhattan with a 24-20 upset of the Wildcats.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Texas Tech
Kansas State traveled to Lubbock to play Texas Tech for the 2019 meeting of the two schools. Texas Tech held Kansas State to just six points in the first half, but were unable to continue the success in the second half. Kansas State managed to force several interceptions—something no other team has done for the season.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Texas Tech
In the third quarter, Kansas State's Joshua Youngblood returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown. After the game, Youngblood credited key blocks from his teammates for the success of the play.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Texas Tech
Texas Tech attempted two fake punts and were successful in one of those, but it did not result in a scoring drive. The successful fake occurred in the fourth quarter with Kansas State ahead by 10. Tech was on its own 42 yard line on fourth down with six to gain. The Tech punter Austin McNamara completed a pass to Ezukanma for 34 yards, taking it all the way to Kansas State's 10 yard line. The very next play,  Texas Tech was intercepted in the end zone by Kansas State's Denzel Goolsby to stop the drive.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, at Texas Tech
With one regular season game left to play, Kansas State's Chris Klieman tied the school record for the most wins by a first-year Kansas State head football coach. The Red Raiders were eliminated from bowl contention with the loss. The final score was close:  Texas Tech 27, Kansas State 30.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
Game conditions were cold and windy for the 2019 edition of "Farmageddon". Iowa State entered the game as the least-penalized team in the Big 12 Conference, but were charged with 8 penalties to Kansas State's 2 when the two programs met in Manhattan. The Cyclones also struggled on third down, only converting 1 attempt of 13.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
Kansas State's Joshua Youngblood returned a kick for a touchdown on the first play of the game. That placed him at the top of the NCAA for three touchdown returns in the season this year.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
During the third quarter, each team managed a field goal but not much more happened offensively. In the fourth quarter, Kansas State was able to pull ahead 24-17 after an eight-play rushing drive ended in a touchdown with 10:24 left in the game. After that, Iowa State punter Joe Rivera kicked just 17 yards on fourth down, which Kansas State was able to turn in to a field goal and put the score out of reach of the Cyclones. The final score was Kansas State 27, Iowa State 17.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Navy
Kansas State and Navy both accepted invitations to the Liberty Bowl, which became the first meeting for the two teams. Kansas State improved its regular season record from 5-7 last year to 8-4 and the Navy Midshipmen improved from 3-10 last season to 9-2 this year with one more regular season game to play--Army-Navy Game. Navy's only losses are to No. 14 Notre Dame and No. 15 Memphis. Navy averages 360.82 yards rushing per game – 49 more than any other Football Bowl Subdivision team.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Navy
After the bowl selection announcement, Navy defeated Army in the 2019 Army–Navy Game by a score of 31-7. This advanced Navy's record for the season to 10 wins and 2 losses.


2019 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Navy
Kansas State allowed Navy to accumulate 421 yards of offense and only produced 170 yards, a season-low for the Wildcats. Phillip Brooks managed a 64-yard put return for a touchdown. With less than 30 seconds remaining and the score tied, Navy ran a halfback pass play that resulted in Midshipmen's Chance Warren to run for a 41-yard gain to set up a field goal a few seconds later and win for Navy. The final score was Navy 20, Kansas State 17.


2019 Karbala bombing
On 20 September 2019, a bomb exploded on a minibus near Karbala, Iraq, killing 12 civilians and injuring at least five others. The bombing was one of the worst attacks against civilians since the end of the War in Iraq of 2013 to 2017.


2019 Karbala bombing, Attack
An unidentified man boarded a minibus in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala, disembarking a little later leaving a bag behind. It exploded shortly afterwards, killing 12 and wounding five others. A suspect was later arrested and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility.


2019 Karlsruhe Open
The 2019 Karlsruhe Open (also known as the Liqui Moly Open Karlsruhe for sponsorship reasons) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 1st edition of the tournament and part of the 2019 WTA 125K series, offering a total of $125,000 in prize money. It took place in Karlsruhe, Germany between 29 July and 4 August 2019.


2019 Karlsruhe Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:


2019 Karlsruhe Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the main draw as a lucky loser:


2019 Karlsruhe Open, Doubles entrants, Other entrants
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:


2019 Karlsruhe Open – Doubles
Lara Arruabarrena and Renata Voráčová won the title, defeating Han Xinyun and Yuan Yue in the final, 6–7(2–7), 6–4, [10–4].


2019 Karlsruhe Open – Singles
Patricia Maria Țig won the title, defeating Alison Van Uytvanck in the final, 3–6, 6–1, 6–2.


2019 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-elections
By-elections to fifteen state assembly constituencies were held in Karnataka on 5 December 2019, and results were announced on 9 December. BJP, the ruling party, needed to win 6 out of the 15 seats to maintain its majority. It won 12 out of 15 seats. Congress won two, JD(S) failed to open its account, and one seat was won by a rebel BJP leader who contested as an independent.


2019 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-elections, Election schedule, Scheduled
By-elections to fifteen state assembly constituencies were originally to be held on 21 October 2019 together with Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly elections. The counting of votes was to be on 24 October 2019.


2019 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-elections, Election schedule, Rescheduled
The Election Commission on 27 September rescheduled the by-elections to 15 Karnataka assembly constituencies to 5 December and will declare the results no later than 11 December.


2019 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-elections, Results, Gains by BJP
The bypolls were necessitated because 15 MLAs, from Congress and Janata Dal (S), resigned to bring down Kumaraswamy's coalition government. BJP won 12 out of 15 seats. But 3 seats escaped its grasp. Roshan Beg from Shivajinagar had resigned. But BJP did not allow Roshan Baig to join them, and he did not contest the bypoll. Congress retained the seat. From Hoskote, MTB Nagaraj resigned his seat and joined BJP who nominated him from his former seat. But a BJP rebel challenged him, and the rebel won. From Hunsur (Hunasuru), Adagur Vishwanath had won on JD(S) ticket, defeating Manjunath of Congress. He resigned, and contested as BJP candidate this time. But this time Manjunath managed to win the seat for Congress.


2019 Karnataka floods
On 1 August 2019, first week, due to heavy rainfall in the Monsoon season, severe flood affected the southern  Indian State of Karnataka. As a security measure in the prevailing situation of heavy rains, India Meteorological Department issued Red alert to several regions of coastal and malnad regions of Karnataka state.


2019 Karnataka floods
Thousands of people were evacuated to safer places and relief camps. A total of 61 people have been killed and seven lakh have been displaced. As of 14 August 2019, Over 6.97 lakh people were evacuated. Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa had announced a compensation of ₹5 lakh for the family members of those who died in the floods.


2019 Karnataka floods, Causes
Due to the heavy water discharge from the  reservoir, the North Karnataka districts of Belagavi, Bijapur, Raichur, Kalburgi, Yadgir and Uttara Kannada were severely affected by the flood discharge. On 8 August, Karnataka received nearly five times the rainfall it normally used to have, adding to the severity of the ongoing floods in 12 districts that had killed 20 people by 9 August 2019.


2019 Karnataka floods, Causes
Excess rainfall is the main possible factor that caused or intensified floods. According to government officials report any particular region can manage rainfall only up to a point, based on its land use and soil holding. Once that is reached, it floods.


2019 Karnataka floods, Effects
As of 14 August 2019, 61 people had been killed and 15 people were missing due to flood-related incidents across 22 districts of the state as per the data released by Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC).


2019 Karnataka floods, Effects
More than 40,000 houses were damaged in Karnataka floods and more than 2,000 villages were affected. North, coastal and Malanad districts were worst affected. Other affected districts include Bagalkot, Vijayapura, Raichur, Yadgiri, Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada, Shivamogga, Kodagu and Chikkamagaluru.


2019 Karnataka floods, Effects
Landslides occurred in many places in Chikkamagaluru, Kodagu, Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada districts due to heavy rains. Connectivity on 137 major roads (National Highway, State Highway and Major district roads) has been disrupted due to floods and landslides.


2019 Karnataka floods, Effects
There was extensive damage to critical infrastructure such as roads, pipelines, tanks, schools, and electrical infrastructure.


2019 Karnataka floods, Damage assessment
Damages due to Karnataka flood, data released by Karnataka Chief Minister's Office


2019 Karnataka floods, Rescues
Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority, Karnataka police along with the Indian Air Force, civilians, volunteers, fishermen from coastal Karnataka were actively taking part in the rescue operations in flood-affected regions. A joint rescue team consisting of Fire and Emergency, State Disaster Response Fund, National Disaster Response Force and Indian Army evacuated 6.73 lakh people as of 14 August 2019. Nobel officers are tasked to camp in vulnerable villages.


2019 Karnataka floods, Response
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Disaster Management Division, from 1  to 14 August, Karnataka received 658 mm of rainfall and because of this many people lost their lives.


2019 Karnataka floods, Relief and monetary aid
On 4 October 2019, Central Government had released an amount of 1200 Crores as Karnataka flood relief funds on the request of CM Yediyurappa.


2019 Karnataka political crisis
In July 2019, several government members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in India submitted their resignations to the speaker, which led to the fall of the then United Progressive Alliance government in Karnataka.


2019 Karnataka political crisis, Background
In the 2018 elections to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, the BJP won the most seats—104, but the Congress Party (INC) and Janata Dal (Secular) formed a coalition government with 120 out of 224 seats. In the 2019 general election, the BJP-led NDA won 26 out of 28 seats in Karnataka while the INC-led UPA won two.


2019 Karnataka political crisis, Resignations
On 1 July, two members, Ramesh Jarkiholi and Anand Singh of the INC, submitted their resignations. Over the next few days, 10 Congress and 3 JD(S) MLAs resigned.


2019 Karnataka political crisis, Resignations
The reaction of the coalition government was to attempt to convince the MLAs who had submitted their resignations to rescind them. Many of the MLAs fled to Mumbai, and directed the police not to permit Congress leaders to meet them. The government also attempted to induce the MLAs to return by offering them cabinet posts; all 21 Congress ministers resigned on 8 July to ensure that a sufficient number of ministerial berths were available. It also requested that the speaker should disqualify those who had resigned under anti-defection legislation.


2019 Karnataka political crisis, Resignations
The speaker, K.R. Ramesh Kumar, did not immediately accept the resignations, on the grounds that he was constitutionally obliged to scrutinize them. Consequently, some of those who had submitted their resignations approached the Supreme Court, which on 12 July agreed to hear the case on 16 July, whilst ordering the speaker not to disqualify any lawmakers or take any other action in this connection.


2019 Karnataka political crisis, Resignations
At the 16 July hearing, Mukul Rohatgi, counsel for the MLAs who had submitted their resignations, said that the speaker should be ordered to rule immediately on the resignations. Rohatgi argued that disqualification was a "mini-trial", and so a decision on the resignations should take priority over one on disqualification. Rajeev Dhavan, who appeared for the Chief Minister of Karnataka, argued that the MLAs never met the speaker, and so the speaker should rule on their disqualifications first.


2019 Karnataka political crisis, Resignations
Ranjan Gogoi, the Chief Justice, said that the court would have to balance two competing claims: first, the excuse of resignation could not be used to circumvent anti-defection measures; but, second, claims of defection should not be used to prevent resignation. He also said that the court would have to consider the extent to which it is permitted to issue directions to holders of other constitutional posts, such as that of the speaker of the assembly.


2019 Karnataka political crisis, Resignations, Members responsible for the Crisis
14 INC and 3 JD(S) MLAs were responsible for the political crisis. 1 KPJP MLA also left the coalition government. After some days, one of the legislator from INC, Ramalinga Reddy, withdrew his resignation.


2019 Karnataka political crisis, Reaction and conclusion
Congress members in the Rajya Sabha forced adjournments twice in protest, alleging bribery on the part of the BJP. The BJP demanded that the government should resign.


2019 Karnataka political crisis, Reaction and conclusion
Eventually the Congress-JD(S) coalition was reduced to 101 seats, whilst the BJP retained 105. After 3 weeks of turmoil, HD Kumarasamy lost a trust vote and resigned. On 26 July 2019, B.S. Yediyurappa was sworn in as Chief Minister of Karnataka once again.


2019 Kashima Antlers season
The 2019 Kashima Antlers season involved the team competing in the J1 League, they finished 3rd in the 2018 J1 League. They also competed in the J.League Cup, Emperor's Cup, and AFC Champions League.


2019 Kashima Antlers season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2019 Kashmir earthquake
The 2019 Kashmir earthquake struck regions of Pakistan with an epicentre in Azad Kashmir on 24 September at 16:02 local time (11:02 UTC). It had a magnitude of 5.6 Mw and a maximum felt intensity of VII (very strong) on the Modified Mercalli scale. There was severe damage in Mirpur District, causing the deaths of 40 people and injuring a further 850. The epicentre of the shallow quake was near the city of Mirpur, Pakistan. The tremors were felt in the Kashmir region, Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab (India), Uttarakhand and northern parts of India including New Delhi.


2019 Kashmir earthquake, Tectonic setting
Kashmir lies at the southern margin of the broad zone of continental collision between the Eurasian and Indian Plates. The rate of convergence between these plates near this location is 38 mm per year. The main structures involved in accommodating this convergence are large thrust faults, such as the Main Central Thrust and the Main Frontal Thrust. Within the frontal thrust zone, there are many individual thrust faults. Many damaging earthquakes have resulted from movement on such thrust faults, such as the 2005 Kashmir earthquake which caused the deaths of around 87,000 people.


2019 Kashmir earthquake, Damage
The earthquake caused severe damage to 135 houses in Mirpur District, with a further 319 being partially damaged, most in Mirpur and just four in Bhimber District. Two bridges were reported damaged and parts of several roads were affected, particularly 14 km of the Main Jatlan Road.


2019 Kashmir earthquake, Damage
According to the chairman of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), "In Mirpur, besides the city, a small town Jatlan, and two small villages Manda and Afzalpur" were among the worst-hit areas. According to him, the main road which runs alongside a river from Mangla to Jatla suffered major damage. According to the officials, the Mangla Dam, Pakistan's major water reservoir, was spared. However, the dam's power house was closed, which resulted in a loss of 900 megawatts to Pakistan's national power grid. At 7:20 pm, power generation at Mangla was resumed, restoring 700 MW to the national grid.


2019 Kashmir earthquake, Damage
According to a media report, cracks and fissures had appeared in the Upper Jhelum canal. Flood water had managed to enter the Chak Nigah village in Jatlan town. The canal was subsequently shut as a precautionary measure.


2019 Kashmir earthquake, Casualties
Forty people have died and more than 850 injured as per the reports published on 26 September. Of those who died, thirty-three were in Mirpur District, four in Bhimber District, and one more in Jhelum District. Reuters reported, citing architects, that the large number of casualties were due to shoddy building construction methods and weak construction standards in Pakistan. Sardar Gulfaraz Khan, the deputy inspector general of police for Mirpur district, stated that a large number of deaths were caused due to the collapse of old houses in the villages.


2019 Kashmir earthquake, Response
The Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Haider Khan, cut short a visit to Lahore and went back to his native region immediately after the reports of the damage emerged. NDMA vehicles laden with 200 tents, 800 blankets, 200 kitchen sets and 100 medical kits were dispatched to affected areas.


2019 Kashmir earthquake, Aftershocks
On 26 September at 12:30, two days after the major earthquake, another earthquake struck Mirpur, which led to a further 67 people being injured and one death reported. It was of magnitude 4.7 and centered at Thothal Mirpur at the depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi).


2019 Kaski–2 by-election
A by-election was held in Kaski–2 constituency of Nepal on 30 November 2019, following the death of incumbent Rabindra Prasad Adhikari in a helicopter crash. Adhikari was a 3-term Member of Parliament from Kaski. He was the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation at the time of his death. The by-election was won by Bidya Bhattarai, his widow, with 54.27% of the vote. She defeated her nearest rival, Khem Raj Paudel of Nepali Congress, by 8,403 votes.


2019 Kaski–2 by-election, Candidates
A total of 21 candidates took part in the election. Nepal Communist Party (NCP) selected Bidya Bhattarai, widow of Rabindra Prasad Adhikari, as their candidate. Her primary opponent was Khem Raj Paudel of Nepali Congress.


2019 Kassym-Jomart Tokayev presidential campaign
Acting President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev became the presidential nominee for the ruling Nur Otan on 23 April 2019. He received backing from his predecessor and the party's chairman Nursultan Nazarbayev, calling him the "worthiest candidate." On 3 May 2019, Tokayev was officially registered by the Central Election Commission and from evening 11 May, he launched his election campaign where all the platforms were announced on the website with the slogan "Игілік баршаға" (Wellbeing for all).


2019 Kassym-Jomart Tokayev presidential campaign, Programs, Platforms
On 11 May 2019, Tokayev's campaign unveiled platforms in the official website where were divided into three sections as it follows:


2019 Kassym-Jomart Tokayev presidential campaign, Programs, Foreign policy
As a politician, Tokayev had wide experience in foreign affairs by serving as Foreign Minister, State Secretary and the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. He announced the intention in firmly promote and defend national interests in the world arena as well as strengthen relations with every country.


2019 Kassym-Jomart Tokayev presidential campaign, Programs, Foreign policy
He also expressed strong support for Russia, calling it a "strategic ally" where he vowed to maintain relations as Nursultan Nazarbayev did.


2019 Kassym-Jomart Tokayev presidential campaign, Programs, Economic policy
Tokayev promised for sustainable economic growth rates for Kazakhstan's to reach into the 30 most developed countries. He also supported the taxation system to be simplified through the optimization and unification of taxes. The level of the shadow economy is planned to be reduced to the level of the OECD countries - 15-17%.


2019 Kassym-Jomart Tokayev presidential campaign, Campaign
Tokayev visited several regions and cities in his campaign. A well-known businessman and MP of the regional mäslihat from the East Kazakhstan Region Erzhan Nurbaev urged residents of the Altai District to support the candidacy of Tokayev's in the upcoming presidential elections.


2019 Kassym-Jomart Tokayev presidential campaign, Campaign
Tokayev was mocked on social media for the overuse of modification of his official photos, erasing his wrinkles and double chin.


2019 Kate Sheppard Cup
The 2019 Kate Sheppard Cup is New Zealand's women's 25th annual knockout football competition. This is the second year that the competition is known by the Kate Sheppard Cup, or New Zealand Football Foundation Kate Sheppard Cup for sponsorship purposes, after previously been known as the Women's Knockout Cup since its establishment.


2019 Kate Sheppard Cup
The 2019 competition has three rounds before quarter-finals, semi-finals, and a final. Competition will run in three regions (northern, central/capital, southern) until the quarter-finals, from which stage the draw will be open. In all, 40 teams entered the competition.


2019 Kate Sheppard Cup, The 2019 final
The 2019 final saw Eastern Suburbs win their first Kate Sheppard Cup as well as completing a league-cup double after earlier winning the Northern Region Football League's premier women's division. The final was played at North Harbour Stadium before the men's Chatham Cup final. This was Eastern Suburbs's third finals appearance, having lost twice previously in 2005 and 2017. It was also Coastal Spirit third appearance however while they lost in their first appearance in 2011, they had won the cup before in 2013 in a final that was played at home in Christchurch.


2019 Kate Sheppard Cup, The 2019 final
An early goal to Suburbs inside the first five minutes to Hannah Pilley was quickly followed up by Tayla O'Brien in the ninth. Pilley got her second in the 25th minute and by that stage Suburbs was controlling the game. O'Brien got her second in the 35th minute which saw Suburbs go into the half up four nil. Suburbs controlled the second half and while they had a few more chances they also kept Coastal scoreless, leaving the final score the half time score. Tayla O’Brien was jointly awarded the Maia Jackman trophy for the most valuable player with Suburbs fullback Erinna Wong.


2019 Kate Sheppard Cup, Results, Round 1
All matches were played on the weekend of 11–12 May 2019.


2019 Kate Sheppard Cup, Results, Round 2
All matches were played on Queen's Birthday weekend 31 May - 3 June 2019.


2019 Kate Sheppard Cup, Results, Round 3
All matches were played on the weekend 15–16 June 2019.


2019 Kate Sheppard Cup, Results, Quarter-finals
All matches were played on the weekend 6–7 July 2019.


2019 Kategoria e Tretë
The 2019 Kategoria e Tretë was the 16th official season of the Albanian football fourth division since its establishment. The season began on 22 February 2019. There were 6 teams competing this season. Selenica and Mirdita gained promotion to the 2019–20 Kategoria e Dytë. Selenica won their first Kategoria e Tretë title.


2019 Katsina State gubernatorial election
The 2019 Katsina State gubernatorial election occurred in Nigeria on March 9, 2019. Incumbent APC Governor Aminu Bello Masari won re-election for a second term, defeating PDP Garba Yakubu Lado and 16 other party candidates.


2019 Katsina State gubernatorial election
Aminu Bello Masari emerged APC gubernatorial candidate after scoring 5,562 votes and defeating his closest rival, Abubakar Isa, who received 8 votes. He picked Mannir Yakubu as his running mate. Garba Yakubu Lado was the PDP candidate with Salisu Yusuf Majigiri as his running mate. 18 candidates contested in the election.


2019 Katsina State gubernatorial election, Electoral system
The Governor of Katsina State is elected using the plurality voting system.


2019 Katsina State gubernatorial election, Primary election, APC primary
The APC primary election was held on September 30, 2018. Aminu Bello Masari won the primary election polling 5,562 votes against 2 other candidates. His closest rival was Abubakar Isa, an accomplished businessman who came second with 8 votes, while Garba Dankani came third with 1 vote.


2019 Katsina State gubernatorial election, Primary election, PDP primary
The PDP primary election was held on September 30, 2018. Garba Yakubu Lado won the primary election polling 3,385 votes against 5 other candidates. His closest rival was Ahmad Yar’adua who came second with 243 votes, Abdullahi Faskari, the state's former deputy governor and Musa Nashuni, a former PDP gubernatorial candidate in 2015 had only one vote each.


2019 Katsina State gubernatorial election, Results
A total number of 18 candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election.


2019 Katsina State gubernatorial election, Results
The total number of registered voters in the state was 3,230,230, while 1,173,780 voters were accredited. Total number of votes cast was 1,720,638, while number of valid votes was 1,683,045. Rejected votes were 37,593.


2019 Katsina State gubernatorial election, Results, By local government area
Here are the results of the election by local government area for the two major parties. The total valid votes of 1,683,045 represents the 18 political parties that participated in the election. Blue represents LGAs won by Aminu Bello Masari Green represents LGAs won by Garba Yakubu Lado.


2019 Katusha–Alpecin season
The 2019 season for Team Katusha–Alpecin will begin in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they will be automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2019 Katusha–Alpecin season, Team roster
On 9 May 2019 Marcel Kittel terminated relationship with the club on his own request.


2019 Katusha–Alpecin season, Team roster
Riders who left the team during or after the 2018 season


2019 Kawasaki Frontale season
The 2019 Kawasaki Frontale season was their 15th consecutive season in J1 League. They were the defending champions after finishing top of 2018 J1 League. They also competed in the Emperor's Cup, J.League Cup, Japanese Super Cup and AFC Champions League.


2019 Kawasaki Frontale season, Squad
As of 14 January 2019. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2019 Kazakh presidential election
Snap presidential elections were held in Kazakhstan on 9 June 2019 to elect the President of Kazakhstan following the resignation of long-term President Nursultan Nazarbayev in March 2019. This was the sixth presidential election held since Kazakhstan's independence and the third one in the row to be held on an earlier date.


2019 Kazakh presidential election
With the lowest turnout of 77.5% since 2005, acting president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Nur Otan won a majority of 71% of the vote, the least amount ever garnered for an incumbent president in Kazakhstan's history which followed by his closest challenger Amirjan Qosanov of the Ult Tagdyry association, whom received 16%, the highest ever for a non-incumbent candidate since 2005.


2019 Kazakh presidential election
Scheduled for April 2020 of which President Nursultan Nazarbayev's fifth term was set to expire, the snap elections came to being shortly after acting president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev assumed office in result of Nazarbayev's resignation amidst the anti-government protests. Tokayev on 9 April announced early presidential elections.


2019 Kazakh presidential election
Nominations took place following the announcement of elections. From there, nine candidates expressed their interests to participate in the race, of which seven managed to become registered, making it the most amount of presidential contests in Kazakhstan's history.


2019 Kazakh presidential election
Amongst the nominees from political parties and public associations were acting president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, whom became a candidate for the ruling Nur Otan after endorsement from his predecessor Nazarbayev, Jambyl Ahmetbekov from the Communist People's Party, Toleutai Raqymbekov from the Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party, Amangeldi Taspihov from the Federation of Trade Unions, Sadibek Tügel from the Uly Dala Qyrandary and Dania Espaeva from the Ak Zhol Democratic Party, the first Kazakh woman to officially participate in the elections. Amirjan Qosanov for the first time since 2005 from the Ult Tagdyry, was the only sole opposition candidate to appear in a presidential ballot.


2019 Kazakh presidential election
Campaigning was focused on the issues of agriculture, environment, labour rights, social benefits, market economy, legacy of Nazarbayev's enacted policies and the current political system in which presidential candidates proposed solutions from furtherdemocratization and decommunization to the development of nation's values and agricultural industry.


2019 Kazakh presidential election
Tokayev's victory was marked as the first peaceful transition of power in Kazakhstan's history, although facing challenge from the public amidst political unrest that took place in the streets of Almaty and Nur-Sultan. According to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), "significant irregularities were observed on election day, including cases of ballot box stuffing, and a disregard of counting procedures meant that an honest count could not be guaranteed." "There were widespread detentions of peaceful protesters on election day in major cities", said the OSCE in their Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions.


2019 Kazakh presidential election
On 12 June, Tokayev took the oath of office during a ceremony at the Palace of Independence in the capital, Nur-Sultan. From there, he pledged to protect the interests of every citizen and consider any proposals and initiatives that would be put forward by political and community leaders.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Background, Reelection of Nazarbayev and post-economic crisis recovery
President Nursultan Nazarbayev was elected for a fifth term in the 2015 Kazakh presidential election in midst of an economic crisis. From there, he pledged for economic reforms, political stability, inter-ethnic accord and social cohesion. Nevertheless, the Kazakh economy continued following the downspiral caused by 2010s oil glut and devaluation of the tenge to the point of resulting Nazarbayev calling for a snap parliamentary election in January 2016 amidst fears of another oil price crash which would've severely impacted the economy. By the end of that year, Kazakhstan's GDP reached its lowest point of $137.3 billion with a 1.1% growth rate, making it worst performance since 1998.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Background, Reelection of Nazarbayev and post-economic crisis recovery
However, things took a drastic turn the following year thanks in part mainly to the increase of the price of oil and the launch of the Kashagan Field which increased the output production of petroleum. Other economic activity such as in manufacturing, agriculture, transport, and trade sectors also experienced a regrowth. By the end of 2017, the GDP growth rate In Kazakhstan amounted to 4.1% and since then has remained stable from there.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Background, Speculations of post-Nazarbayev succession
In September 2016, Nazarbayev reshuffled several cabinet positions and appointed his daughter Dariga Nazarbayeva to the post of Deputy Prime Minister, believed to be due to Uzbek President Islam Karimov's unexpected death who had no clear successor which led to a speculation of Nazarbayev's potential moves in having his daughter to succeed him. In a November 2016 interview to the Bloomberg News, Nazarbayev said that he had no plans in handing over his succession to his children and mentioned that any transfer of power in the country is carried out by the Constitution.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Background, Speculations of post-Nazarbayev succession
In May 2018, the Parliament approved a bill which granted Nazarbayev the life tenure as a Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan. This granted him the control of the country's policies without holding the presidential office. Chair of the Senate Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, in an interview to BBC in June 2018, expressed doubts that Nazarbayev would seek another term in the election that would've been held in 2020. This created speculation that Nazarbayev was preparing to leave the presidency.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Background, Speculations of post-Nazarbayev succession
Speculation on Nazarbayev's early resignation rearose on 4 February 2019, when he appealed to the Constitutional Council in regards to the provision on the early termination of the president's powers. Nazarbayev clarified that that the appeal "absolutely routine issue", claiming that he was repeatedly asked question on the provisions and that his appeal to the Council was simply an explanatorily issue. In result, Nazarbayev urged public calm.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Background, Speculations of post-Nazarbayev succession
On 19 March 2019, Nazarbayev announced his resignation, stating that Senate Chair Kassym-Jomart Tokayev would take over as president for the remainder of his term. However, on 9 April 2019, Tokayev announced that a snap election would be held on 9 June to avoid "political uncertainty."


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Electoral system
The President of Kazakhstan is elected using the two-round system; if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, a second round is held between the top two candidates.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Electoral system
According to Article 41 of the Constitution, a citizen of Kazakhstan by birth must at least 40 years old, fluent in the state language and living in Kazakhstan for the last 15 years, can be elected as President.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates
Nine candidates applied to the Central Election Commission to contest the elections. A record seven were registered to run, whilst one candidate withdrew and one was disqualified for not possessing sufficient knowledge of the Kazakh language.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates
A newly adopted law in 2017 made any contesting candidate to be required to have a higher education and five years of experience in the public service or in elected public office as well as an active participations in management of the affairs of the state directly and through their representatives, apply personally, and send individual and collective appeals to state and local governments.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Registered candidates
Candidates were required to collecting signatures of at least 1% of voters, equally representing at least 2/3 of the regions, cities of republican significance and the capital Nur-Sultan. As of 1 January 2019, 11,814,019 citizens were included by the Central Election Commission (OSK) in the voter registration, thus 118,140 signatures would be needed to be collected in support of each candidate. The registration of proxies, as well as the procedure for verifying the authenticity of signatures with the participation of passport authorities, is carried out by Territorial Election Commissions.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Registered candidates
To be registered as presidential candidates, the nominees will need to submit to the CEC a certificate of the state revenue authority on the submission of the income and property declaration by him/her and the spouse as of the first day of the nomination month, i.e. on 1 April 2019, as well as a medical report on the state of his/her health. The candidate registration will last until 6:00 pm May 11 of this year. The candidate registration can be canceled by the CEC in case of detection by the state revenue authorities of the unreliability of information on income and property in the submitted declarations.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations
Nomination of presidential candidates were held from 10 April to 28 April 2019. According to the Article 55 of the Constitutional Act "On elections", only registered public associations and political parties have a given right to nominate their candidates.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations
The decision on nomination is taken by a majority of votes from the total number of members of the highest body of the republican public association.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations
The compliance of a candidate with the requirements of the Constitution and the Constitutional Act "On Elections" is carried out by the Central Election Commission within five days from the date of submission of an extract from the protocol of the meeting of the highest body of the republican public association after nominating the candidate, together with the candidate's consent to run for presidency and a document confirming that the candidate has paid the electoral contribution.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Uly Dala Qyrandary (UDQ)
On 17 April 2019, the public association Uly Dala Qyrandary nominated its co-chair and writer Sadibek Tügel for presidency. The nomination received no cover from the media and instead were a series of social media posts. Tügel pledged to promote ideas of spiritual revival and raising of Kazakh culture and focus on the importance of improvements in the socio-cultural sphere that were made possible under Nazarbayev's presidency.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Uly Dala Qyrandary (UDQ)
According to political analysts Orazğali Selteev, he described Tügel as the "1% candidate" (referring to how much vote share he'd get) whose a "harmless participant, with no pretensions."


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Nur Otan (NO)
Shortly after President Nursultan Nazarbayev's resignation, some talks arose that Nazarbayev's daughter, Dariga, who succeeded Tokayev as the Chair of the Senate, was expected to run in the election as a way to ensure her father's legacy. However, Dariga stated that she had no plans in joining the race. Other possible contender included Imangali Tasmagambetov.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Nur Otan (NO)
On 23 April 2019, the 19th Nur Otan Extraordinary Congress was held in Nur-Sultan which was attended 1,500 persons, including the 600 delegates. From there, Party Chairman Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed to nominate acting president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for candidacy, calling him a "well-deserved candidate" that would follow "politics of friendship" and "equal rights of Kazakh citizens". Tokayev was unanimously chosen to be the nominee. From there, Tokayev spoke at the nomination congress, where he praised Nazarbayev and pledged to work hard for the prosperity of the nation.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Nur Otan (NO)
That same day, Tokayev appealed to the Constitutional Council for the clarification on the term of residence in Kazakhstan per electoral requirements during his time of work overseas as diplomat. On 25 April, the Council ruled that the 15 year period of residence also counts the periods of residence outside for Kazakhstani citizens who belong to the staff of the governmental diplomatic service.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Nur Otan (NO)
Imangali Tasmagambetov, Kazakh ambassador to Russia (2017–2019), Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (2016–2017, 2000–2002, 1995–1999), 5th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (2002–2003)


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Federation of Trade Unions (QRKF)
At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Trade Unions of Kazakhstan (QRKF) was held at which the issue of nominating candidates for participation in the elections from the organisation was discussed. The members of the Executive Committee approved and submitted for consideration by the General Council on 23 April 2019 two candidates: former Mazhilis MP Muqtar Tinikeev and QRKF deputy chairman Amangeldi Taspihov.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Federation of Trade Unions (QRKF)
The following day on 24 April 2019, the QRKF General Council nominated Taspihov as presidential candidate after Tinikeev recused himself, due to his lack of knowledge of Kazakh per registrational requirement.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Ak Zhol Democratic Party (AJ)
In regards to snap presidential elections, the Ak Zhol Democratic Party (AJ) Chairman Azat Peruashev expressed Nazarbayev's intent in letting Tokayev serving his unfinished term as "a normal international practice" that "corresponds to the best models of democratic states." From there, he used example of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson whom served as President after the assassination of John F. Kennedy before being elected. Nevertheless, Peruashev thanked Tokayev for his decision to hold snap elections, noting his commitment for it to be "transparent and fair".


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Ak Zhol Democratic Party (AJ)
Amongst the contenders from the party, Talgat Erğaliev and Dania Espaeva were seen as the possible frontrunners. Peruashev refused to join the race, stating that the need for the Ak Zhol to have new faces and competition which would encourage the development of the party.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Ak Zhol Democratic Party (AJ)
At the 15th Extraordinary Congress on 24 April 2019, Espaeva received 49.5% of the delegate vote. A decision at the presidium was made to hold the vote without a second round which resulted in Espaeva garnering 170 votes with 15 against, thus becoming the first woman in Kazakhstan's history to be nominated for presidency.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Ak Zhol Democratic Party (AJ)
Azat Peruashev, Ak Zhol Democratic Party Chairman (2011–present), member of the Mazhilis (2012–present).


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Ak Zhol Democratic Party (AJ)
Talgat Erğaliev, member of the Mazhilis (2012–present), chairman of the Union of Builders (2010–present).


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Nationwide Social Democratic Party (JSDP)
The Nationwide Social Democratic Party (JSDP) subsequently after Nazarbayev's resignation issued a statement which called for fair and open presidential and parliamentary elections, a national dialogue between the authorities and society on the constitutional democratization of the political system, and to ensure the security and stability during peaceful transition of power and after. On 22 April 2019, the JSDP Political Council announced that it would convene in a party congress and proposed Ermurat Bapi as a possible presidential nominee for the JSDP.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Nationwide Social Democratic Party (JSDP)
On 26 April 2019, the party at the 14th Congress in Almaty announced that it would backdown and not participate in the presidential race in which according to JSDP deputy chairman Ashat Raqymjanov, due to integrity of their holding and the short time given to prepare and conduct the campaign citing large financial strain. He noted that the party would focus its attention in the next parliamentary elections.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Communist People's Party (QKHP)
The Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan (QKHP) announced its interest to participate in the election at the party's Politburo meeting. Parliamentary leader QKHP Aiqyn Qongyrov called Tokayev's move as a "logical decision", citing that "people need stability, so that there will be a person who will run the country in the next five years." Qongyrov was highly seen as a possible front-runner from the QKHP. In an interview to Tengrinews.kz, Qongyrov expressed his interest to run for presidency, noting he would rule out his choice based on the party's decision.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Communist People's Party (QKHP)
At the 14th QKHP Extraordinary Congress, Secretary Jambyl Ahmetbekov, who previously contested in the 2011 presidential election was nominated again by the party in presidential race on 26 April 2019. Qongyrov at the congress, stated that each presidential nominee from the QKHP receives more and more support in which he used examples from the past races starting from 2005 where the party slowly went up its ranking in terms of vote place.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Communist People's Party (QKHP)
Aiqyn Qongyrov, QKHP parliamentary leader (2018–present), QKHP Secretary (2013–2020), member of the Mazhilis (2012–present).


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Ult Tagdyry (UT)
At the press conference held in Almaty, the public association Ult Tagdyry (UT) nominated Amirjan Qosanov for presidency on 26 April 2019. Despite not being part of the organisation, Qosanov called it an "honour" and, if elected, proposed to hold a constitutional meeting. His nomination by all UT members except for the chairman Dos Koshim who abstained the vote, but called it worth in nominating a candidate.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Union of Builders (QQO)
Failed Ak Zhol Democratic Party (AJ) nominee and head of Union of Builders of Kazakhstan (QQO) Talgat Erğaliev nominated himself as a presidential candidate for the QQO association and submitted his documents to the Central Election Commission (OSK) for registration on 27 April 2019. However after pressure from Ak Zhol and its chairman Azat Peruashev whom Erğaliev met with, it was announced on 28 April that Erğaliev would be withdrawing from the race and instead support Dania Espaeva's campaign which received positive remarks from Peruashev himself, calling Erğaliev's act as "solid" and "masculine".


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Candidates, Nominations, Halyq Demografiasy (HD)
On 26 April 2019, the Halyq Demografiasy public association nominated its head Jumatai Aliev as candidate for presidency. Aliev submitted his documents to the Central Election Commission (OSK) on 28 April.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
In the start of the campaign, an official electoral programme published in Tokayev's website under the title: "Well-being for all! Continuity. Justice. Progress." which consisted three sections of the platforms with total of 170 outlined tasks. In "Succession", it emphasized strengthening of independence, sovereignty and national security–that is stability, civil peace and harmony. Tokayev called for an increase in incomes and improve the quality of life of the country's citizens. In "Justice", Tokayev stressed the need in creating opportunities for every citizen in order to achieve personal success and improve their well-being. In the "Progress", called for the creative change in society with Tokayev proclaiming progress as being "our idea."


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
He pledged to continue his predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev's policies in implementing the social programs, setting path for Kazakhstan's entry into the top 30 most developed countries in the world, to further implement Five Institutional Reforms–Plan of the Nation programme which would bring the nation to a new level of sustainable development, strengthening domestic political stability and social cohesion and stimulating the business activity of the population as well as eliminating intolerance and extremism, strengthen domestic political stability and social harmony, develop civil society, protections of rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens, guaranteed safety of every person, protection of private property, support of domestic business, ensure the security of investments, stimulate the business activity of the population, protect national interests in the political, trade, economic, cultural, humanitarian spheres and implement a balanced, constructive foreign policy.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Tokayev was mocked on social media for the overuse of modification of his official photos, which allegedly erased his wrinkles and double chin.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Amirjan Qosanov
Amirjan Qosanov became the first opposition candidate since 2005 to contest the presidential race. He called for more political freedoms, national identity, stronger sovereignty, friendlier economy to people, development of various regions throughout the country. Qosanov brought up several environmental issues which included the drying of Aral Sea and the city of Semey which suffered the impacts of nuclear testing in Semipalatinsk during the Soviet Union. Qosanov pledged to continue the nation's multi-vector foreign policy although he expressed his support for stronger relations with European Union. He also ran on a platform in fighting against corruption, reducing the powers of the president, allowing direct elections of äkıms (local heads), making Kazakh economy less dependent on raw resources, and prohibiting the construction of nuclear power plants.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Amirjan Qosanov
Qosanov was the only candidate to criticised the government. In spire of that, he received backlash and accusations amongst other opposition groups for allegedly collaborating with the authorities such as having campaign staff with record of having pro-government views and to some extend being supporters of it in which Qosanov dismissed these claims as being "rumours". It was viewed that Qosanov wouldn't win the election and instead was being used to legitimise it whilst the opposition called for boycott rather than to support Qosanov in the polls.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Dania Espaeva
Ak Zhol presidential nominee Dania Espaeva outlined three challenges for her campaign: a market economy, democracy and social justice. Espaeva ran a pro-business platform. Proclaiming herself as "a firm supporter of small and medium-sized businesses", she promoted competition and entrepreneurship and called for a reduction in banking interest rates, end in de-offshorisation and tax rates for important industries such as in mechanical engineering as well as creation of new industries in rural areas. In regards to corruption and low public trust in judicial system, Espaeva obliged to protect citizens from extortion of businesses by the authorities whom she called for them to be held accountable.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Dania Espaeva
Espaeva emphasised Kazakhstan’s independence as a key value, telling that "our people, our land and its wealth that we inherited from our ancestors, our state language and the unity of our multinational society." She supported decolonising the public through renaming objects, streets and settlements, required exams on knowledge of the Constitution of Kazakhstan, history and state language for granting Kazakh citizenship, supporting Kazakhstan’s traditional religions and protecting society’s spiritual sphere from foreign influence.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Dania Espaeva
Throughout the campaign, Espaeva was compared to Margaret Thatcher in social media due to her speeches and proposed policies.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Toleutai Raqymbekov
Toleutai Raqymbekov, presidential nominee for the agrarian Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party, campaigned on two issues: agriculture and tradition. He stressed the issue in Kazakhstan's society where young people are forced to leave villages and move into the cities, creating an unequal composition of the country's population between rural and urban areas.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Toleutai Raqymbekov
In order to solve this, Raqymbekov proposed to minimise the inequality between urban and rural population by developing rural infrastructure and implementing improvement measures for living standards in village residents by teaching them practical skills to organise their own businesses with a provided access to "long and cheap money", optimising social assistance, improving medical services and determining the main rural development trends and needs.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Toleutai Raqymbekov
Raqymbekov mostly campaigned for rural issues and proposed solution in improving agricultural economy by which would help Kazakhstan to compete worldwide with its important exports and noting it would create more jobs in the villages by attracting young specialists and prevent the fleeing into urban cities. He also stated that a modernised Kazakhstan wouldn't be possible taking into account the history and culture of the people, understanding the origins of ethnic development, and its primary spiritual and moral values of culture.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Amangeldi Taspihov
Amangeldi Taspihov's election platform included five main directives of which were: creating business reforms, ensured safe workplaces, increased workers’ rights, establish higher salaries and the fifth is to re-examine regulations concerning migrant labour.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Amangeldi Taspihov
Taspihov sought to earn support from middle class by campaigning for safe working conditions, labour rights protections and decent living wages for people earning average. He also called for regulation in the job market by having any foreign worker's job whose visa stay has expired by replace by Kazakhstani citizen as well as improvements in education system to train new specialists to work without needing migrant workers. Taspihov took Auyl nominee Toleutai Raqymbekov's similar stance in creating more jobs in rural areas to prevent the outflow of the population. He proposed to develop a Safe Labour state programme that would force employers to create safe workplaces and in turn, they would receive tax benefits and subsidies for infrastructure and that any employer caught violating the code, would be faced with criminal charges.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Jambyl Ahmetbekov
Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan (QKHP) nominee Jambyl Ahmetbekov's main platforms were on labour and political rights. Ahmetbekov campaigned through populist approach by calling prosecution of oligarchs living abroad, mainly referring to exiled Kazakh businessman Mukhtar Ablyazov whom he accused of stealing government's budget that's used to fund social services. He expressed his support for free education, healthcare, pension payments, and a guaranteed right for work, rest and housing and noted that attention would be paid towards spiritual sphere, science, culture and morality. Ahmetbekov also called for higher taxes on the rich and an end to poverty.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Jambyl Ahmetbekov
Ahmetbekov criticised westernization, claiming it brought harm to Kazakhstan's society such as pornography and gambling addiction. In combating the situation, Ahmetbekov proposed for Kazakhstan's own version of Facebook in which certain deemed "harming content" would be regulated in spite of his earlier oblige to support freedom of speech, democratic organisations and movements and opposition media in his electoral programme.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Sadibek Tügel
Sadibek Tügel based his campaign on conservatism and nationalism where talked about the preservation of nation's values and traditions by rejecting western culture. He proposed in implementing a ban on night clubs and marriage to foreigners. Tügel discussed the issues of Kazakhstan's demographics which he obliged for young people aged under 25 to start families.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Sadibek Tügel
In political issues, Tügel’s platform consisted of nine main points: protecting people’s honour and dignity, improving the country’s demographics, supporting Kazakh diaspora whom are willing to return, strengthening the role of the Kazakh language, modernisation and development of Alash Autonomy ideologies, end in corruption, fixation in unemployment, death penalty for corrupt officials, nationalisation of resources, as well as a referendum for new Constitution. Tügel positioned himself as reformer and called for democratization within the political system such as the direct elections of äkıms (local heads) in all levels, a national unicameral Parliament in which the candidates for MP's could self-nominate themselves.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Others
Despite not nominating its candidate, the Nationwide Social Democratic Party (JSDP) called for boycott of the polls as a protest, in which the party members claimed that it is the participation of "puppet" candidates proposed by pro-government parties to help secure an election victory for acting president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev from the ruling Nur Otan party.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Others
Mukhtar Ablyazov, leader of the banned Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan movement, supported the initiative in boycotting the elections, calling them "illegal" and in response, he urged everyone to attend mass protests all over the country during the election day.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Others
On 1 May 2019, at the International Workers' Day, dozens of Kazakhstani citizens took the streets calling for the release of political prisoners and boycott in the upcoming presidential elections. An estimated 80 persons were detained that day.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Others
An organising committee of the People's Kurultai consisting of the Kazakh opposition was formed in the city of Kyiv in Ukraine. From there, the participants called for boycott in the polls, stating that the election is "illegitimate" and that according to political activist Aidos Sadyqov, the purpose of the authorities for elections is to create an "illusion of democracy" within the country and to show the West that there are so forms of alternative choices contrary to more dictatorial countries such as North Korea and neighboring Turkmenistan.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Campaign, Others
Ermek Narymbai, leader of the Şyndyq-Honesty movement took a different stance regarding the elections. He urged people to vote for opposition Amirjan Qosanov candidate, citing the reason as way to vote against ruling candidate Kassym-Jomart Tokayev although admitting at not being supporter of Qosanov. As for people boycotting, Narymbai called for them to observe the polls which would help them to record the number of participants in the boycott.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Debates
On 14 May 2019, a televised debate was announced between the candidates. It was held on 29 May and was broadcast live on the Khabar TV channel. The cost of the event amounted to 41 million tenge.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Debates
Four presidential candidates: Jambyl Ahmetbekov, Amirjan Qosanov, Amangeldi Taspihov and Sadibek Tügel participated in the debates and the rest of the three candidates were represented by Azat Peruashev for Dania Espaeva, Äli Bektaev for Toleutai Raqymbekov, and Mäulen Äşimbaev for Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. The debate was divided into three rounds. In the first round, all participants were asked about the development of the education system in Kazakhstan, in the second round about social modernisation of Kazakhstan, and in the third round, the candidates were allowed to ask questions to two other participants in the debate.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Controversies, Preparations and claims of voter pressure
As part of the collection of signatures by candidates, violations were observed. In one of the higher educational institutions, it was proposed to sign the sheets on which the candidate's data were not indicated.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Controversies, Preparations and claims of voter pressure
In May 2019, The Village agency published an article about receiving anonymous complains by university students in being pressured to vote. According to the statements, many of the campuses postponed the educational semesters to June in expense for students to show up at the polls, otherwise they'd face possible expulsion or systemic academic problems. The Village correspondents attempted to contact the universities for response to the issues in which only the Almaty University of Power Engineering and Telecommunications admitted that the semester postponement–was in fact–due to upcoming elections.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Controversies, Political pressure and crackdowns
According to the Kazakh law, it is prohibited to conduct polls that do not meet the requirements. Such violations include conducting them on social media, which two citizens were fined for.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Controversies, Internet blockages
On 9 May 2019, at the Victory Day, reports of internet blockages occurred with many news website such as Radio Azattyq and Ferghana Information Agency being inaccessible to the public as well as social media sites such as Facebook, Telegram, YouTube and Instagram. This move occurred allegedly after exiled Kazakh banker and leader of the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan called on people to protest that day.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Controversies, Internet blockages
Johann Bihr, head of Reporters Without Borders' Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk criticised the incident, telling that "There is no justification for this massive obstruction of the Kazakh public’s right to information." He called on the Kazakh authorities to abandon the "repressive practices from an earlier era" for their reformist discourse to viewed credible, noting that internet censorship is one of the reasons why Kazakhstan is ranked 158th in the Press Freedom Index, a position which gives the nation a "bad international image".


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Controversies, Invitations
A few days before the elections, all residents of the Republic of Kazakhstan, according to the rules, should have received from the city and regional election commissions a personal paper invitation to the "Presidential Election-2019" with the name of the voter, address and number of the polling station. However, for unknown reasons, many residents of the largest city in the country Almaty did not receive their invitations to the elections for the first time in the entire history of elections.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Opinion polls
On 6 May 2019, the Central Election Commission (OSK) published a notice regarding the reports of political polls being conducted online. The OSK noted that in accordance with the law, it is prohibited to publish reports of electoral polling five days prior to election day and that the right to conducting them was reserved only for two organisations: Qoğamdyq Pıkır Institute and the Jastar Research and Development Center LLP.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Opinion polls
According to political scientist Dosym Satpaev, polling within the country can be easily distorted in all levels of government. In his opinion, the reason for the suppression of polls is due to prevent the means of struggle between political elites and to create illusion for the public that the government being viewed with positivity with less distrust of election results due to a lack of independent polling.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Observation
As of 6 May 2019, several election observation missions have declared their interest. Amongst them were the CIS, the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member States, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Observation
On 15 May, for observers from the NGO's of Almaty and 12 ethnocultural centers of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan, students of city universities, training was conducted on the basis of the civil platform Amanat. In total, it is planned to train at least 10,000 independent observers under this program.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Observation
As of 31 May, the number of observers from international organizations and foreign states is 967 people, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has accredited 227 foreign correspondents from more than 40 countries of the world.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Observation, OSCE
On 8 May 2019, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) mission to observe the presidential elections in Kazakhstan was opened. The team of observers, according to the head of the mission, Urszula Gacek, included experts from Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Belarus, Poland, who would work not only before the elections, but also after. A total of 22 long-term observers were registered in the mission.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Observation, OSCE
According to the mission's interim report on 24 May, the election campaign is subtle and limited to campaign posters and billboards. Campaigning is strictly regulated and candidates can hold public meetings or events only with the permission of local authorities, an application for which must be submitted 10 days before the planned event.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Observation, CIS
On 20 May 2019, the mission of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was opened. According to the CIS executive secretary, Viktor Guminsky, it was assumed that the mission from the CIS will include about 300 observers. They will represent all the countries of the commonwealth. To date, about 90 representatives of the Commonwealth countries have already applied for accreditation. These applications continue to come in. So far, applications have been officially received from four countries: Russia, Belarus, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, as well as from the IPA CIS. Long-term observers will work with about 20 people from the diplomatic corps accredited in Nur-Sultan, as well as the CIS executive committee.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Conduct, Violations
During the election day, the Prosecutor General's Office identified 19 revealed violations, and initiated cases of an administrative offense. Of these, 12 violations were related to the issuance of ballots by a member of a precinct election commission to citizens for voting for other persons, 6 violations were related to the fact that some voters wanted to vote instead of another voter. Independent observers and journalists recorded numerous election violations such as stuffing, use of disappearing ink, and voting for other people on video.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Aftermath, Protests
After preliminary results were announced, protests were reported in both Nur-Sultan and Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan. Deputy Interior Minister Marat Kozhayev announced that 500 people had been taken into custody, while Mukhtar Ablyazov, the leader of opposition group the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, claimed that there were "thousands of protesters" in the Astana Square of Almaty.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Aftermath, Protests, Response by authorities
According to the Kazakh government, the protests were caused by attempts to destabilize the social situation on the part of radical elements by organizing and conducting unauthorized actions. The authorities considered the protest actions agitated by foreign "leaders of extremist organizations", referring mainly to the former Kazakh politician and opposition leader Mukhtar Ablyazov and his movement Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, which was declared as an extremist organization in March 2018. Ablyazov was the first to call for boycott in the election and instead hold a protest. In 2009, the Kazakh authorities charged Ablyazov with abuse and fraud and removed him from his post as head of BTA Bank, causing him to flee the country and was eventually convicted in absentee in the country.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Aftermath, Protests, Protesters' response
The protesters considered the elections to be unfair and undemocratic, and their results were predetermined. They also protested against the change in the name of the capital and the current government, which, in their opinion, is still in the hands of ex-President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and that his successor Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is only his “political puppet”. Ablyazov's supporters believed that the falsely accused him of fraud in order to arrest him due to political reasons and why his movement was declared as illegal in the country.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Aftermath, Protests, International observers
International observers from the OSCE considered that the elections did not demonstrate a democratic authenticity with reported cases of ballot stuffing and that Kazakhstan still needs significant political, social and legal reforms to strengthen democracy, human rights and freedoms, they stated that they are always ready to cooperate with Kazakhstan for carrying out such actions.


2019 Kazakh presidential election, Aftermath, Protests, International observers
The observers from the CIS stated that they did not observe any protest actions and detentions, while the OSCE, on the contrary, watched the protests and considered the actions of the Kazakh authorities to be clear violations of the foundations of freedom and democracy and disrespect for their own people. The OSCE observers stayed in Kazakhstan for another week due to concerns about the fate of the protesters.


2019 Kazakhstan Cup
The 2019 Kazakhstan Cup was the 28th season of the Kazakhstan Cup, the annual nationwide football cup competition of Kazakhstan since the independence of the country. FC Kaisar defeated FC Atyrau in the final on 6 October 2019 to win their second Kazakhstan Cup.


2019 Kazakhstan Cup, Semifinals
The four winners from the Quarterfinals were drawn into two two-legged ties.


2019 Kazakhstan Premier League
The 2019 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 28th season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. FC Astana defended their title, winning the championship for the sixth season in a row, whilst FC Atyrau and FC Aktobe were relegated and FC Taraz survived a relegation playoff against FC Akzhayik.


2019 Kazakhstan Premier League, Teams
FC Kyzylzhar and FC Akzhayik were relegated at the end of the 2018 season, and were replaced by FC Okzhetpes and FC Taraz.


2019 Kazakhstan Premier League, Teams, Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2019 Kazakhstan Premier League, Teams, Foreign players
The number of foreign players is restricted to eight per KPL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.


2019 Kazakhstan Premier League, Teams, Foreign players
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.


2019 Kazakhstan President Cup (football)
The 12th Kazakhstan President Cup (Kazakh: Қазақстан Республикасы Президентінің Кубогы) was played from August 24 to August 28, 2019 in Nur-Sultan. 6 youth teams participated in the tournament (players were born no earlier than 2003.)


2019 Kazakhstan President Cup (football), Venues
All matches took place at House of Football in Nur-Sultan.


2019 Kazakhstan President Cup (football), Format
The tournament is held in two stages. At the first stage, six teams are divided into two qualification groups (A and B). Competitions of the first stage were held on a circular system. The winners of the groups advance to the final, while the group runners-up meet to determine third place.


2019 Kazakhstan President Cup (football), Statistics, Prize money
According to FFK, the prize fund of a tournament will make $15,000. "The teams which took 1, 2 and 3 place will be received, respectively 7,000, 5,000 and 3,000 $.


2019 Kazakhstan Super Cup
2019 Kazakhstan Super Cup was a Kazakhstan football match that was played on 3 March 2019 between the champions of 2018 Kazakhstan Premier League, Astana, and the winner of the 2018 Kazakhstan Cup, Kairat.


2019 Kebbi State gubernatorial election
The 2019 Kebbi State gubernatorial election occurred in Nigeria on March 9, 2019. Incumbent APC Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu won re-election for a second term, defeating Isa Galaudu of the PDP.


2019 Kebbi State gubernatorial election
Abubakar Atiku Bagudu won the primary election after he was returned as the sole candidate. He picked Manasseh Daniel Jatau as his running mate. Usman Bayero Nafada was the PDP candidate with Charles Yau Iliyas as his running mate. 32 candidates contested in the election.


2019 Kebbi State gubernatorial election, Electoral system
The Governor of Kebbi State is elected using the plurality voting system.


2019 Kebbi State gubernatorial election, Primary election, APC primary
Abubakar Atiku Bagudu won the primary election after he was returned as the sole candidate. He picked Samaila Dabai Yombe as his running mate.


2019 Kebbi State gubernatorial election, Primary election, PDP primary
The PDP primary election was held on September 30, 2018. Isa Mohammed Galaudu won the primary election polling 1,072 votes against 3 other candidates. His closest rival was Umar Tafida who came second with 720 votes, Buhari Bala came third with 322 votes, while Abubakar had 28 votes.


2019 Kebbi State gubernatorial election, Results
A total number of 32 candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election.


2019 Kebbi State gubernatorial election, Results
The total number of registered voters in the state was 1,789,975, while 820,078 voters were accredited. Total number of votes cast was 814,084, while number of valid votes was 793,388. Rejected votes were 20,696.


2019 Kebbi State gubernatorial election, Results, By local government area
Here are the results of the election by local government area for the two major parties. The total valid votes of 793,388 represents the 32 political parties that participated in the election. Blue represents LGAs won by Abubakar Atiku Bagudu. Green represents LGAs won by Isa Mohammed Galaudu.


2019 Kedah FA season
The 2019 season was Kedah's 11th season in the Malaysia Super League since its inception in 2004. The season covers the period from 1 February to 21 July 2019.


2019 Kehoe Cup
The 2019 Kehoe Cup was an inter-county hurling competition based mainly in the province of Leinster in which Antrim from Ulster also took part.


2019 Kehoe Cup
The Kehoe Cup is ranked below the Walsh Cup (tier 1). Five county teams competed – Antrim, Kildare, Meath, Westmeath and Wicklow. It took place in December 2018 and January 2019. Westmeath were the winners.


2019 Kehoe Cup
The Kehoe Shield was revived in 2019. Three teams competed – Louth, Longford and DCU St. Patrick's Campus. Louth were the winners.


2019 Kehoe Cup, Kehoe Cup, Kehoe Cup Format
The competition begins with a double-elimination format. The semi-finals and final are knockout. Drawn games go to extra time. If the score is still level after extra time a penalty shoot-out is held to determine the winners.


2019 Kehoe Cup, Kehoe Cup, Kehoe Cup Format
The structure of the competition is explained in each of the rounds below.


2019 Kehoe Cup, Kehoe Cup, Kehoe Cup First Round
One team is given a bye to the playoff round. The remaining four teams meet in two matches – the two winners progress to the semi-finals and the two losers enter the playoff round.


2019 Kehoe Cup, Kehoe Cup, Kehoe Cup Playoff Round
In the first playoff match the team given a bye in the first round plays one of the two teams that lost in the first round. The winners progress to the semi-finals.


2019 Kehoe Cup, Kehoe Cup, Kehoe Cup Playoff Round
In the second playoff match the team that lost the first playoff match play the remaining team that lost in the first round. The winners progress to the semi-finals and the losers are eliminated.


2019 Kehoe Cup, Kehoe Cup, Kehoe Cup Semi-Finals
The two winning teams from the first round play each other and the two winning teams from the playoff round play each other.


2019 Kehoe Cup, Kehoe Shield, Kehoe Shield Format
Each team plays the other teams once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The top two teams compete in the final.


2019 Keio Challenger
The 2019 Keio Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fourteenth (men's) and third (women's) editions of the tournament and part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Yokohama, Japan between 25 February and 10 March 2019.


2019 Keio Challenger, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Keio Challenger, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2019 Keio Challenger, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking:


2019 Keio Challenger, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Keio Challenger, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking:


2019 Keio Challenger – Men's Doubles
Tobias Kamke and Tim Pütz were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2019 Keio Challenger – Men's Doubles
Moez Echargui and Skander Mansouri won the title after defeating Max Purcell and Luke Saville 7–6(8–6), 6–7(3–7), [10–7].


2019 Keio Challenger – Men's Singles
Yasutaka Uchiyama was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2019 Keio Challenger – Men's Singles
Kwon Soon-woo won the title after defeating Oscar Otte 7–6(7–4), 6–3 in the final.


2019 Kelly Cup playoffs
The 2019 Kelly Cup playoffs of the ECHL began in April 2019 following the conclusion of the 2018–19 ECHL regular season. The Kelly Cup was won by the expansion Newfoundland Growlers in six games over the Toledo Walleye.


2019 Kelly Cup playoffs, Playoff format
At the end of the regular season the top four teams in each division qualifies for the 2019 Kelly Cup playoffs and be seeded one through four based on highest point total earned in the season. Then the first two rounds of the playoffs are held within the division with the first seed facing the fourth seed and the second seed facing the third. The division champions then play each other in a conference championship. The Kelly Cup finals pits the Eastern Conference champion against the Western Conference champion. All four rounds are a best-of-seven format.


2019 Kelly Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds
After the regular season, 16 teams qualify for the playoffs. The Cincinnati Cyclones were the first team to qualify during the regular season on March 6, with the Florida Everblades qualifying shortly after on March 8. The Cyclones were the Western Conference regular season champions and the Brabham Cup winners with the best record in the ECHL. The Everblades earned the top seed in the Eastern Conference.


2019 Kelly Cup playoffs, Statistical leaders, Skaters
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes


2019 Kelly Cup playoffs, Statistical leaders, Goaltending
This is a combined table of the top five goaltenders based on goals against average and the top five goaltenders based on save percentage, with at least 240 minutes played. The table is sorted by GAA, and the criteria for inclusion are bolded.


2019 Kelly Cup playoffs, Statistical leaders, Goaltending
GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime Losses; SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SV% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts; TOI = Time on ice (in minutes)


2019 Ken Galluccio Cup
The 2019 Ken Galluccio Cup will be the 11th edition of the Ken Galluccio Cup, the European men's lacrosse club competition.


2019 Ken Galluccio Cup, Competition format
The eight teams were divided into two groups of four, where the two first qualified teams joined the semifinals. Groups were drawn on 10 August 2019.