2018 Iraqi parliamentary election
This article documents a current election. Information may change rapidly as the election progresses until official results have been published. Initial news reports may be unreliable, and the last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. (May 2018) |
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Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 12 May 2018.[4] The elections decided the 329 members of the Council of Representatives, the country's unicameral legislature, who in turn will elect the Iraqi President and Prime Minister.[5]
Background
The elections took place six months after a non-binding independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan, in which 93% voted in favour of independence. In retaliation, the Iraqi government led by Haider al-Abadi closed Erbil International Airport, seized control of all border crossings between Kurdistan and neighbouring countries and, with the help of the Hashd al-Shaabi militias, militarily seized control of disputed territories, including the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. Nonetheless, Iraqi politicians called for dialogue with the Iraqi Kurdistan government and force them to formally annul the results.[6]
The elections were originally scheduled for September 2017, but were delayed by six months due to the civil war with ISIS which ended in December 2017 with the recapture of their remaining territories. The largest Sunni Arab majority coalition, the Muttahidoon (Uniters for Reform), called for a further six month's delay to allow displaced voters to return to their homes.[7] A Sunni Arab MP described holding the elections at this time as a "military coup against the political process".[8] However, the Supreme Court ruled that delaying the elections would be unconstitutional.[9]
Electoral system
Members of the Council of Representatives are elected through the open list form of party-list proportional representation, using the 18 governorates of Iraq as the constituencies. The counting system uses the modified Sainte-Laguë method with a divisor of 1.7[10] which is considered as a disadvantage to smaller parties.[11] Eight seats remain reserved for minority groups at the national level: five for Assyrians and one each for Mandaeans, Yazidis, and Shabaks.[12][13] However, the Council of Representatives voted on 11 February 2018, to add an extra seat for minorities, in the Wasit Governorate for Feyli Kurds, making the total number of parliamentarians equal to 329.[citation needed]
In January, the Supreme Court ruled that the representation for Yazidis should be increased, although it is unclear whether this change will be implemented in time for these elections.[14]
International voting
The Independent High Electoral Commission announced that Iraqis living outside of Iraq can vote in any of the 130 voting stations that were set up in 21 countries. 18 of the stations were in the United States, 15 in Sweden, 15 in Turkey, 14 in Iran, 13 in Jordan, 8 in the United Kingdom, 8 in Australia, 7 in Germany, 7 in Canada, 5 in Egypt, 4 in Denmark, 2 in Lebanon, and one each in France, Syria, Finland, Belgium, Austria, Norway, and New Zealand.[15]
Election day
A curfew was declared by prime minister Al-Abadi from midnight Friday to 7 pm Saturday in all governorates except Baghdad, where the curfew started at noon Friday.[16] A 24 hour closure of all airports and other border crossing was also implemented. The Iraqi airspace was open later on the day as well as the lifting of the curfew.[17] Election day in Iraq was extremely successful from a security aspect, as no attacks were registered anywhere in the country.[18]
Seat allocation
Seats are allocated to governorates as follows:
Governorate | Seats |
---|---|
Anbar | 15 |
Babil | 17 |
Baghdad | 69 |
Basra | 25 |
Dohuk | 11 |
Dhi Qar | 19 |
Diyala | 14 |
Erbil | 15 |
Karbala | 11 |
Kirkuk | 12 |
Maysan | 10 |
Muthanna | 7 |
Najaf | 12 |
Nineveh | 31 |
Al-Qadisiyyah | 11 |
Saladin | 12 |
Sulaymaniyah | 18 |
Wasit | 11 |
Minorities | 9 |
Total | 329 |
Campaign
A total of 6,904 candidates participated in the elections, representing parties:[19][20]
Governorate | Number of Candidates |
---|---|
Anbar | 383 |
Babil | 338 |
Baghdad | 1,985 |
Basra | 522 |
Duhok | 115 |
Dhi Qar | 279 |
Diyala | 259 |
Erbil | 173 |
Karbala | 197 |
Kirkuk | 291 |
Maysan | 105 |
Muthanna | 102 |
Najaf | 244 |
Nineveh | 907 |
Al-Qadisiyyah | 191 |
Saladin | 332 |
Sulaymaniyah | 211 |
Wasit | 180 |
Minorities | 90 |
Total | 6,904 |
Alliances
As of 26 December, a total of 204 parties had registered to contest the elections.[21] The deadline for registering coalitions was 11 January.[22] A total of 27 coalitions were registered by the deadline, grouping 143 political parties, with registered parties not part of a coalition also free to contest separately.[23]
The ruling State of Law Coalition, which won the last election with 92 seats, contested the election with two separate coalitions. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi entered the election as head of a coalition called "Victory" (a reference to the victory over Daesh) while his predecessor, Vice President Nouri al-Maliki, headed the State of Law list.[24][25] Members of the Dawa Party, which they both come from, are free to support either list.[26]
Leading members from the Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), mainly Shiite Arab militias who fought alongside the Iraqi army to defeat Daesh from 2014 to 2017 have formed an alliance to contest the election. The Fatah Alliance includes the Badr Organisation, Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, Kata'ib Hezbollah, Kata'ib al-Imam Ali, all key components of the Hashd; the Badr Organisation, headed by Hadi Al-Amiri, which currently have 22 seats was previously part of the ruling State of Law Coalition and announced their withdrawal in December 2017.[27][28] The Fatah Alliance agreed to run jointly with al-Abadi's Nasr al-Iraq (Victory of Iraq) list, but the agreement fell apart after only 24 hours, reportedly over Abadi's conditions.[29][30]
Ammar al-Hakim, the leader of the Citizen Alliance, the third largest bloc in parliament, announced in July 2017 that he was leaving the veteran Shiite Islamist party, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq – which he had led since the death of his father, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim – and forming a new "non-Islamic national movement" called the National Wisdom Movement (al-Hikma). All except 5 of the existing 29 MPs from the Citizens Alliance joined Al-Hikma.[31] The remaining members of the Citizen Alliance joined the Fatah Alliance.[32]
Muqtada al-Sadr announced a joint list with the Iraqi Communist Party, called the Alliance of Revolutionaries for Reform. This builds on previous collaboration with communists since 2016, when they have held joint protests in Baghdad against corruption and sectarianism in government.[22][33]
Kurdistan Region
Within the Kurdish parties, there had been significant changes since the previous election with the death of both Jalal Talabani, the long-time leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the second largest party, and the opposition leader Nawshirwan Mustafa. In September 2017, Barham Salih, a former Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan and deputy leader of the PUK, announced that he was leaving the party and forming a new opposition party—the Coalition for Democracy and Justice. The party was seen to have the potential to change the Kurdish political landscape. He said he hoped to gather all the other opposition parties, including Gorran and Komal, to challenge the governing KDP–PUK alliance.[34] The three parties formed a coalition called Nishtiman (Homeland) to run in the elections.[22] The ruling KDP–PUK alliance have agreed to run again as a single list and all the Kurdish parties in Kirkuk have discussed running as a single list.[35] However, the KDP announced they would boycott elections in Kirkuk and other areas they described as "under military occupation".[36]
Sunni Region
Within the Sunni Arab parties, the main Uniters for Reform Coalition (Muttahidoon), led by Osama al-Nujaifi, which won 23 seats in 2014, is running again, although the Iraqi Islamic Party, led by Speaker of Parliament Salim Jabouri, has left this coalition to join up with former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's Al-Wataniya and Salah al-Mutlak's Al-Arabiya. The combined list was called Al-Wataniya. Other parties as well have left the Muttahidoon coalition including the al-Hal Party and formed various alliances in the name of the provinces they ran in, such as Salahuddin Our Identity in Saladin Governorate, and Anbar Our Identity in Al Anbar Governorate and Baghdad Alliance in Baghdad.[37][citation needed]
Civil parties
Within the nonsectarian parties who aim to establish a civil state, the main alliance formed is the Civilized Alliance,[38][39] led by Faiq Al Sheikh Ali, which currently has 4 seats. The alliance consists of four liberal, non-sectarian, national parties, the People's Party for Reform, the Al-Etifak National Party, the National Civil Movement and Iraq's National Movement, and includes a number of independent figures. The Civil Democratic Alliance are also running in the elections as another major civil party.[40]
Christian parties
Of the 329 seats in parliament, five are reserved for the country's Christian minority. One reserved seat is allotted for each of five governorates: Baghdad, Duhok, Erbil, Kirkuk and Nineveh.[41] At the time of voting, only about 200,000 Christians remained in the country.[42]
Attacks
In early May 2018, ISIL claimed to have assassinated Faruq Zarzur al-Juburi, a candidate in the Iraqi elections. The attack reportedly took place in Mosul, outside al-Juburi's house.[43] This was later on proven to be false; due to a family dispute, the candidate was killed by his son.[44]
On election day, a roadside bomb in Kirkuk killed six members of Hashd Al-Ashaeri (a pro-government Sunni tribal force) and injured three police officers.[45]
One Iraqi border guard was killed by a bomb in the outskirts of Khanaqin in Diyala on 13 May.[46]
Two offices linked to Muqtada al-Sadr in Maysan were bombed on 15 May but there were no casualties since both offices were empty at the time.[47][48] It is still unclear whether the attacks were a response to the parliamentary gains in the election made by Sadr's coalition.[49]
On 16 May, a polling station in Kirkuk was reportedly under siege by gunmen pressuring them to change the results after the PUK was indicated to have won the province.[50]
Results
National results
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Results by governorate
Party | Total votes[51] | Percentage | Seats | |
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Anbar is Our Identity | 144,182 | 35.9% | 6 | |
National Alliance | 63,076 | 15.7% | 3 | |
Arab Decision Alliance | 58,576 | 14.6% | 2 | |
The Passing | 50,243 | 12.5% | 2 | |
Victory Coalition | 46,513 | 11.6% | 2 | |
Forward | 7,684 | 1.9% | 0 | |
Others | 31,883 | 7.9% | 0 | |
Total | 402,157 | 100% | 15 |
Party | Total votes[52] | Percentage | Seats | |
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Forward | 157,763 | 28.6% | 6 | |
Conquest Alliance | 118,991 | 21.5% | 5 | |
State of Law Coalition | 83,789 | 15.2% | 3 | |
Victory Coalition | 81,575 | 14.8% | 3 | |
National Wisdom Movement | 56,361 | 10.2% | 2 | |
Movement of the Will | 20,024 | 3.6% | 0 | |
National Alliance | 13,577 | 2.5% | 0 | |
Others | 20,279 | 3.7% | 0 | |
Total | 552,359 | 100% | 19 |
Party | Total votes[53] | Percentage | Seats | |
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Conquest Alliance | 108,601 | 20.2% | 3 | |
Arab Decision Alliance | 103,625 | 19.3% | 3 | |
National Alliance | 84,213 | 15.7% | 3 | |
Forward | 53,923 | 10% | 2 | |
Victory Coalition | 38,690 | 7.2% | 1 | |
National Wisdom Movement | 29,090 | 5.4% | 1 | |
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan | 27,416 | 5.1% | 1 | |
Diyala Challenge | 26,339 | 4.9% | 0 | |
Others | 65,858 | 12.2% | 0 | |
Total | 537,845 | 100% | 14 |
Party | Total votes[54] | Percentage | Seats | |
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Kurdistan Democratic Party | 353,177 | 71.4% | 10 | |
Kurdistan Islamic Union | 43,417 | 8.9% | 1 | |
Coalition for Democracy and Justice | 25,656 | 5.3% | 0 | |
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan | 25,575 | 5.2% | 0 | |
New Generation Movement | 18,026 | 3.7% | 0 | |
Rafidain List Reserved Christian Seat |
4,077 | 0.8% | 1 | |
Movement for Change | 3,797 | 0.8% | 0 | |
Kurdistan Islamic Group | 3,627 | 0.7% | 0 | |
Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council | 3,483 | 0.7% | 0 | |
Others | 7,471 | 1.5% | 0 | |
Total | 488,306 | 100% | 11(+1) |
Party | Total votes[55] | Percentage | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kurdistan Democratic Party | 321,833 | 50.1% | 8 | |
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan | 79,727 | 12.4% | 2 | |
New Generation Movement | 70,848 | 11% | 2 | |
Coalition for Democracy and Justice | 50,561 | 7.9% | 1 | |
Movement for Change | 40,941 | 6.4% | 1 | |
Kurdistan Islamic Group | 36,855 | 5.7% | 1 | |
Kurdistan Islamic Union | 24,564 | 3.8% | 0 | |
Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party Reserved Christian Seat |
2,329 | 0.4% | 1 | |
Others | 14,779 | 2.3% | 0 | |
Total | 642,437 | 100% | 15(+1) |
Party | Total votes[56][57] | Percentage | Seats | |
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Conquest Alliance | 76,679 | 25.2% | 3 | |
Forward | 74,820 | 24.6% | 3 | |
Victory Coalition | 52,674 | 17.3% | 2 | |
State of Law Coalition | 39,927 | 13.1% | 2 | |
National Wisdom Movement | 20,388 | 6.7% | 1 | |
Ability Coalition for Change | 12,261 | 4% | 0 | |
National Alliance | 7,646 | 2.5% | 0 | |
Civilized Alliance | 6,236 | 2% | 0 | |
New Generation Movement | 3,608 | 1.2% | 0 | |
Others | 9,969 | 3.3% | 0 | |
Total | 304,208 | 100% | 11 |
Party | Total vote[58] | Percentage | Seats | |
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Patriotic Union of Kurdistan | 183,283 | 37.8% | 6 | |
Arab Alliance of Kirkuk | 84,102 | 17.4% | 3 | |
Turkman Front of Kirkuk | 79,694 | 16.4% | 3 | |
Victory Coalition | 24,328 | 5% | 0 | |
Conquest Alliance | 18,427 | 3.8% | 0 | |
National Alliance | 14,979 | 3.1% | 0 | |
Nishtiman coalition Movement for Change Coalition for Democracy and Justice Kurdistan Islamic Group |
14,118 | 2.9% | 0 | |
New Generation Movement | 13,096 | 2.7% | 0 | |
Chaldean Coalition Reserved Christian Seat |
4,864 | 1% | 1 | |
Kurdistan Islamic Group | 4,631 | 1% | 0 | |
Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council | 3,810 | 0.8% | 0 | |
Others | 39,286 | 8.1% | 0 | |
Total | 484,618 | 100% | 12(+1) |
Party | Total votes[59][57] | Percentage | Seats | |
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Sairoon | 134,430 | 42.8% | 5 | |
Fatah Alliance | 63,835 | 20.3% | 2 | |
National Wisdom Movement | 40,237 | 12.8% | 1 | |
Victory Alliance | 36,412 | 11.6% | 1 | |
State of Law Coalition | 32,213 | 10.3% | 1 | |
National Alliance | 1,972 | 0.6% | 0 | |
New Generation | 952 | 0.3% | 0 | |
Others | 3,681 | 1.2% | 0 | |
Total | 313,732 | 100% | 10 |
Party | Total votes[60][57] | Percentage | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sairoon | 71,058 | 31% | 2 | |
Fatah Alliance | 46363 | 20.2% | 2 | |
Victory Alliance | 35712 | 15.6% | 1 | |
National Wisdom Movement | 35,686 | 15.6% | 1 | |
State of Law Coalition | 31,051 | 13.5% | 1 | |
Eradaa Movement | 3,759 | 1.6% | 0 | |
Babylon Movement | 1,492 | 0.7% | 0 | |
National Alliance | 1,113 | 0.5% | 0 | |
Construction and Reform | 920 | 0.4% | 0 | |
Others | 2156 | 0.9% | 0 | |
Total | 229,310 | 100% | 7 |
Party | Total votes[61][57] | Percentage | Seats | |
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Sairoon | 92,219 | 24.6% | 4 | |
Fatah Alliance | 83,070 | 22.1% | 3 | |
Victory Alliance | 71,971 | 19.2% | 3 | |
National Wisdom Movement | 38,163 | 10.2% | 1 | |
State of Law Coalition | 37,057 | 9.9% | 1 | |
Eradaa Movement | 14,883 | 4% | 0 | |
Others | 37,779 | 10.1% | 0 | |
Total | 375,142 | 100% | 12 |
Party | Total votes[62] | Percentage | Seats | |
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Victory Alliance | 168,112 | 17.9% | 7 | |
Kurdistan Democratic Party | 139,489 | 14.9% | 6 | |
National Alliance | 104,025 | 11.1% | 4 | |
Nineveh Is Our Identity | 83,102 | 8.9% | 3 | |
Fatah Alliance | 75,043 | 8% | 3 | |
Iraqi Decision Coalition | 67,117 | 7.2% | 3 | |
National Gathering | 54,135 | 5.8% | 2 | |
Democratic Path | 37,035 | 3.9% | 1 | |
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan | 32,789 | 3.5% | 1 | |
Urbanization Coalition | 28,513 | 3% | 1 | |
Tazamun - Gathering | 14,936 | 1.6% | 0 | |
Independent Qusay Abbas Shabak Reserved Seat |
14,824 | 1.6% | 1 | |
Yazidi Democratic Party Yazidi Reserved Seat |
11,141 | 1.2% | 1 | |
Babylon Movement Christian Reserved Seat |
9,753 | 1% | 1 | |
Others | 98,640 | 10.5% | 0 | |
Total | 938,654 | 100% | 31 |
Party | Total votes[63] | Percentage | Seats | |
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Fatah Alliance | 88,895 | 24.8% | 3 | |
Sairoon | 73,294 | 20.4% | 3 | |
Victory Alliance | 59,883 | 16.7% | 2 | |
State of Law Coalition | 42,878 | 12% | 1 | |
National Wisdom Movement | 42,139 | 11.8% | 1 | |
Eradaa Movement | 24,771 | 6.9% | 1 | |
Civil Democratic Alliance | 6535 | 1.8% | 0 | |
National Alliance | 4861 | 1.4% | 0 | |
Others | 15,191 | 4.2% | 0 | |
Total | 358,447 | 100% | 11 |
Party | Total votes[64] | Percentage | Seats | |||
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Tower and National Mass Coalition | 77,624 | 19.2% | 3 | |||
Conquest Alliance | 64,267 | 15.9% | 2 | |||
National Alliance | 56,325 | 13.9% | 2 | |||
Victory Alliance | 50,898 | 12.6% | 2 | |||
Iraqi Decision Coalition | 38,755 | 9.6% | 1 | |||
Salahadin Is Our Identity | 31,994 | 7.9% | 1 | |||
Iraq's Earth | 20,778 | 5.1% | 1 | |||
Sairoon | 15,816 | 3.9% | 0 | |||
Others | 47,562 | 11.8% | 0 | |||
Total | 404,019 | 100% | ' | |||
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Party | Total votes[65] | Percentage | Seats | |
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Patriotic Union of Kurdistan | 267,442 | 39.4% | 8 | |
Gorran Movement | 156,973 | 23.1% | 4 | |
New Generation | 64,389 | 9.5% | 2 | |
Kurdistan Islamic Group | 51,763 | 7.6% | 1 | |
Kurdistan Democratic Party | 48,820 | 7.2% | 1 | |
Coalition for Democracy and Justice | 46,967 | 6.9% | 1 | |
Kurdistan Islamic Union | 30,297 | 4.5% | 1 | |
Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party | 4,895 | 0.7% | 0 | |
Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq | 1,792 | 0.3% | 0 | |
Babylonian Movement Christian Reserved Seat |
1,148 | 0.2% | 1 | |
Others | 4,198 | 0.6% | 0 | |
Total | 678,684 | 100% | 19 |
Party | Total votes[66] | Percentage | Seats | |
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Sairoon | 101,402 | 25.7% | 3 | |
Fatah Alliance | 73,912 | 18.7% | 2 | |
Victory Alliance | 53,819 | 13.6% | 2 | |
National Wisdom Movement | 51,928 | 13.2% | 2 | |
State of Law Coalition | 44,537 | 11.3% | 1 | |
Ability Coalition for Change | 37,782 | 9.6% | 1 | |
National Alliance | 7,941 | 2% | 0 | |
Independent Mazen Abdel Moneim Gomaa Reserved Kurdish Seat |
5,078 | 1.3% | 1 | |
Others | 18,142 | 4.6% | 0 | |
Total | 394,541 | 100% | 12 |
Reactions
A communist woman representing the Alliance of Revolutionaries for Reform, Suhad al-Khateeb, was elected in the elections to represent the city of Najaf, deemed to be one of the holiest religious and conservative cities in Iraq. Khateeb, who is a teacher, anti-poverty and women's rights activist said upon her victory "the Communist party have a long history of honesty - we were not agents for foreign occupations. We want social justice, citizenship, and are against sectarianism, and this is also what Iraqis want."[67]
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