Muqtada al-Sadr leads Iraqi polls as results of 16 provinces officially announced

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Iraqi High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has announced the election results for 16 provinces, with influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his coalition leading the polls.

Baghdad:

• Sairoon (Muqtada al-Sadr) – 413638 votes
• Al-Fatih Coalition (Hadi al-Amiri) – 233298
• State of Law (Nouri al-Maliki) – 211243
• Al-Wataniya (Ayad Allawi) – 204686
• Al-Nasr (Haider al-Abadi) – 194767

Anbar:

• Anbar Our Identity – 125473
• Al-Wataniya – 56751
• Al-Qarar Coalition – 50223

Basra:

• Al-Fatih – 143739 votes
• Sairoon – 113106
• Al-Nasr – 103209

Babil:

• Al-Fatih – 122728 votes
• Sairoon – 114179
• Al-Nasr – 83528

Waseet:

• Sairoon – 94241
• Al-Fatih – 68480
• Al-Nasr – 51031

Diyala:

• Al-Qarar Coalition (Osama Nujaifi) – 96911 votes
• Al-Fatih – 92226
• Al-Wataniya – 78959
• Sairoon – 48050
• Al-Hikma (Ammar al-Hakim) – 26449
• PUK (Kosrat Rasul) – 25198

Muthanna:

• Sairoon – 62968
• Al-Fatih – 42488
• Al-Hikma – 33358
• Al-Nasr – 33307

Qadsiya:

• Al-Fatih – 82310
• Sairoon – 68011
• Al-Nasr 55427

Dhi Qar:

• Sairoon – 146637
• Al-Fatih – 110235
• Al-Nasr – 76399

Karbala:

• Al-Fatih – 70777
• Sairoon – 69975
• Al-Nasr – 48349

Erbil:

• KDP (Masoud Barzani) – 316001 votes
• PUK – 77792
• New Generation (Shaswar Abdulwahid) – 69123
• Coalition for Democracy and Justice (Barham Salih) – 49266
• Gorran [Change] Movement – 39809
• Islamic Group - 35741
• Kurdistan Islamic Union - 23933

Sulaimani:

• PUK – 262128
• Gorran Movement – 149930
• New Generation – 49343
• KDP – 46567
• Coalition for Democracy and Justice – 44976
• Kurdistan Islamic Union - 29160

Nineveh:

• Al-Nasr – 164714
• KDP - 134092
• Al-Wataniya – 97095
• Nineveh Identity - 78793
• Al-Fatih 73253

 Missan:

• Sairoon – 133995
• Al-Fatih – 63669
• Al-Hikma – 40176
• Al-Nasr36257

Salahadin:

• Al-Jamaheer al-Wataniya – 76069
• Al-Fatih – 62415
• Al-Wataniya – 54330
• Al-Nasr - 50437

Najaf:

• Saeerun – 92,026
• Al-Fatih – 82838
• Al-Nasr – 71819
• Al-Hikma - 38099

Kurdistan 24 obtained unofficial elections results in the other two provinces that have not been announced by the IHEC yet:

Kirkuk:

• PUK – 166204
• Arabic Coalition – 81451
• Turkmen Front – 72945
• Al-Nasr – 23127

Duhok:

• KDP – 315199
• Islamic Union – 41690
• Coalition for Democracy and Justice – 24280

Editing by Nadia Riva