Municipal elections were held in Qatar

Qatar

Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...

 on 1 April 2007 for the third time. Three women and 122 men ran for 29 seats in the Central Municipal Council

Central Municipal Council

The first municipal council in Qatar was formed in the early 1950s and it was reorganized in 1956. Doha municipality came into being in May 1963. The Ministry of Municipal Affairs was established in 1972 as a government body responsible for supervising the functions of municipalities.Decree No 4...

. About 28,000 citizens of the 174,000 Qataris were able to vote, and overall turnout was 51.1 per cent.

One of the three female candidates, Sheikha Yousuf Hasan Al Jufairi

Sheikha Yousuf Hasan Al Jufairi

Sheikha Yousuf Hasan Al Jufairi made history in 2003 when she won election to the Central Municipal Council in Qatar from the Airport constituency, the first woman in the GCC ever to win a municipal election, is against reservation of seats for women in the Central Municipal Council Sheikha al...

, was elected with the highest amount of votes of all 125 candidates. Turnout in her Airport constituency was the lowest in the country at 28 per cent, while turnout in Al Shamaliyya and Shamal

Madinat ash Shamal

ash-Shamal is a municipality in the state of Qatar. Its capital is called Madinat ash-Shamal and it is considered to be one of the major cities in Qatar. The name means "City of the north" - although the population is barely over 3,000...

was over 80 per cent.