Marwan Mohammed “Technical issues with some ballot boxes but no complaints about them”
He also stated that there are 30 other ballot boxes have had problems between the electronic and manual counting, the rate was less than %1, auditing will be only to the forms and will finish”
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Marwan Mohammed, the Head of the Erbil Office of the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), stated to Kurdistan 24 on Thursday “some of the ballot boxes have problems sending data and reading it in Baghdad, there are no complaints about them, there was only an issue with the manual and electronic sorting which exceeded %5, we will just recalculate”
Mr. Mohammed added “we have nine ballot boxes that have not had any technical problems, it is only the USBs (memory stick) were sent to Baghdad did not work,”
According to his statement, the results were taken from BICOs and sent to Baghdad earlier via RTS, only reports are taken off those boxes.
He also stated that there are 30 other ballot boxes have had problems between the electronic and manual counting, the rate was less than %1, auditing will be only to the forms and will finish”
He highlighted that none of complaints reached the red line, and the final results will be announced after the audit have completed.
On Friday, October 18th, 2024, the special voting and on Sunday, 20th, 2024, general voting for the sixth round of the Kurdistan Parliament took place.
According to the Iraqi Independent High Election Commission announcement, an average of about %70 voters turned out in both elections.
Number of seats of political parties according to the preliminary results:
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP): 39 seats
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK): 23 seats
New Generation Movement: 15 seats
Kurdistan Islamic Union: 7 seats
Helwest Movement: 4 seats
Kurdistan Justice Group: 3 seats
People's Front (Berey Gel): 2 seats
Gorran Movement: 1 seat
Kurdistan Region Alliance: 1 seat
Component Quota: 5 seats
Number of ballots of political parties according to the preliminary statistics:
KDP: 809.197 votes
PUK: 408.141 votes
New Generation: 290.991 votes
Kurdistan Islamic Union: 116.981 votes
Helwest Movement: 55.775 votes
Kurdistan Justice Group: 64.710 votes
People's Front (Berey Gel): 33.365 votes
Gorran Movement: 11.621 votes
Kurdistan Regional Alliance: 12.929 votes
Kurdistan Islamic Movement: 5.503 votes