Twenty-eight women are running for the 50-seat house, a Kuwait interior ministry list said.
Though women won full political rights a year ago, some of them have been intimidated during campaigning.
The election is held to resolve a political crisis between the government and parliament that led Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah to dissolve the parliament in May.
Image: Kuwaiti men and women are separated by a curtain as they attend an election rally in Dahiyet Abdullah al-Salem in Kuwait City.
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