Iraq announces preliminary election results for six more provinces

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) announced on Monday preliminary election results for six provinces across the Kurdistan Region and Iraq, making a total of 16 provinces so far accounted for. 

Erbil:

• KDP (led by Masoud Barzani) - 316,001
• PUK (Kosrat Rasul Ali) - 77,792
• New Generation (Shaswar Abdulwahid) - 69,123
• CDJ (Barham Salih) - 49,266
• Gorran (Omar Said Ali) - 39,809
• Komal (Ali Bapir) - 35,741
• KIU (Salahaddin Bahaddin) - 23,933
• Iraqi Turkmen Front - 2,332

Sulaimani:

• PUK - 262,128
• Gorran - 149,930
• New Generation - 61,638
• Komal - 49,343
• KDP - 46,567
• CDJ - 44,967
• KIU - 29,161

Nineveh:

• Al-Nasr [Victory Alliance] (Haider al-Abadi) - 164,714
• KDP - 134,782
• Al-Wataniya (Ayad Allawi) - 97,085
• Nineveh Our Identity - 78,793
• Al-Fatih (Hadi al-Amri) - 73,253

Salahaddin:

• Qalat Jamahir Watanyah - 76,069
• Al-Fatih - 62,425
• Al-Wataniya - 54,330
• Al-Nasr - 50,437

Najaf:

• Sairoon (Muqtada al-Sadr) - 92,026
• Al-Fatih - 82,838
• Al-Nasr - 71,819
• Hikma Front (Ammar al-Hakim) - 38,099
• State of Law (Nouri al-Maliki) - 36,808

Misan:

• Sairoon - 133,959
• Al-Fatih - 63,669
• Al-Hikma Front - 40,176
• Al-Nasr - 36,257
• State of Law - 32,137

The preliminary election results for the province of Duhok and Kirkuk provinces have yet to be published by IHEC. Previously, the commission, which oversees voting in Iraq, released the results of the following 10 provinces, showing cleric Muqtada al-Sadr leading the polls.

Baghdad:

• Sairoon – 413,638 votes
• Al-Fatih Coalition – 233,298
• State of Law – 211,243
• Al-Wataniya – 204,686
• Al-Nasr – 194,767

Anbar:

• Anbar Our Identity – 125,473
• Al-Wataniya – 56,751
• Al-Qarar Coalition – 50,223

Basra:

• Al-Fatih – 143,739
• Sairoon – 113,106
• Al-Nasr – 103,209

Babil:

• Al-Fatih – 122,728
• Sairoon – 114,179
• Al-Nasr – 83,528

Waseet:

• Sairoon – 94,241
• Al-Fatih – 68,480
• Al-Nasr – 51,031

Diyala:

• Al-Qarar Coalition (Osama Nujaifi) – 96,911
• Al-Fatih – 92,226
• Al-Wataniya – 78,959
• Sairoon – 48,050
• Al-Hikma (Ammar al-Hakim) – 26,449
• PUK (Kosrat Rasul) – 25,198

Muthanna:

• Sairoon – 62,968
• Al-Fatih – 42,488
• Al-Hikma – 33,358
• Al-Nasr – 33,307

Qadsiya:

• Al-Fatih – 82,310
• Sairoon – 68,011
• Al-Nasr 55,427

Dhi Qar:

• Sairoon – 146,637
• Al-Fatih – 110,235
• Al-Nasr – 76,399

Karbala:

• Al-Fatih – 70,777
• Sairoon – 69,975
• Al-Nasr – 48,349

On Saturday, people across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region took part in national legislative elections, the first since the defeat of the Islamic State (IS). Polls opened at 7:00 a.m. and closed at 6:00 p.m.

Turnout stood at 44.5 percent, according to Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC). It is the lowest voter turnout rate in Iraq in the past 13 years. In the 2014 elections, roughly 60 percent voted.

Editing by John J. Catherine