2014 Iraqi parliamentary election
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Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 30 April 2014. The elections decided the 328 members of the Council of Representatives who will in turn elect the Iraqi President and Prime Minister.
Electoral system
The open list form of party-list proportional representation, using the governorates as the constituencies, is the electoral system used. The counting system has been changed slightly from the largest remainder method to the modified Sainte-Laguë method due to a ruling by the Supreme Court of Iraq that the previous method discriminated against smaller parties. Seven "compensatory" seats that were awarded at the national level to those parties whose national share of the vote wasn't reflected in the seats won at the governorate level have been allocated to individual governorates. Eight seats remain reserved for minority groups at the national level: five for Assyrians and one each for Mandaeans, Yezidis, and Shabaks.[2][3]
Seat allocation
Prior to the elections, the parliament decided to expand from 325 to 328. As with the 2010 elections, 8 seats were reserved for ethnic and religious minorities. Unlike previous elections, there were no compensatory seats; reserved seats that previously favorited big-time parties.
| Governorate | Seats 2010 | Seats 2014 | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Al Anbar Governorate | 14 | 15 | +1 |
| Babil Governorate | 16 | 17 | +1 |
| Baghdad Governorate | 68 | 69 | +1 |
| Basra Governorate | 24 | 25 | +1 |
| Dahuk Governorate | 10 | 11 | +1 |
| Dhi Qar Governorate | 18 | 19 | +1 |
| Diyala Governorate | 13 | 14 | +1 |
| Erbil Governorate | 14 | 15 | +1 |
| Karbala Governorate | 10 | 11 | +1 |
| Kirkuk Governorate | 12 | 12 | |
| Maysan Governorate | 10 | 10 | |
| Al Muthanna Governorate | 7 | 7 | |
| Najaf Governorate | 12 | 12 | |
| Ninawa Governorate | 31 | 31 | |
| Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate | 11 | 11 | |
| Salah ad Din Governorate | 12 | 12 | |
| As Sulaymaniyah Governorate | 17 | 18 | +1 |
| Wasit Governorate | 11 | 11 | |
| Compensatory seats | 7 | 0 | -7 |
| Minorities | 8 | 8 | |
| Total | 325 | 328 | +3 |
Campaign
The campaign was expected to focus on competition within the three main religious and ethnic communities: Shi'ite Arabs, Sunni Arabs and Kurds. While under the Constitution of Iraq the head of the largest coalition has the first call to become prime minister, in a precedent set following the 2010 election, a revised coalition can be formed following the election. This reduced the incentive for parties to form broad coalitions prior to the election. So in November 2011, Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission approved 276 political entities to run in the elections, including a number of coalitions.[4]
Shi'ite Arabs were split between the Prime Minister's State of Law Coalition, the Sadrist al-Ahrar Bloc, and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq backed al-Muwatin coalition. The former secular, non-sectarian Iraqiya bloc – 2010 the strongest force elected into parliament – had broken apart into Usama al-Nujayfi's Sunni regionalist Muttahidoon coalition, Ayad Allawi's National Coalition al-Wataniya, and Saleh al-Mutlaq's al-Arabiya Coalition.[5] And the two prominent Kurdish parties, Masoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), were joined by a third Kurdish party, the Movement for Change (Gorran) headed by Nawshirwan Mustafa.
Conduct
As members of the security forces voted on Monday 28 April, six different polling stations were hit by suicide bombers, leading to at least 27 deaths. Insurgent group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has threatened violence against Sunni Muslims who vote in the election.[6]
Results
National results
The IHEC confirmed the results on 25 May. The official number of seats is as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | Previous | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State of Law Coalition | 3,141,835 | 24.14 | 92 | 89 |  3
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| Sadrist Movements (Muqtada al-Sadr) Including: -Al-Ahrar Bloc (28) -Elite Movement (Nukhab) (3) -National Partnership Gathering (Sharaka) (3) |
34 | 34
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| Al-Muwatin Coalition (Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq) | 29 | 29
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| Muttahidoon | 680,690 | 5.23 | 23 | |||
| Al-Wataniya | 21 | |||||
| Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) | 1,038,002 | 9.25 | 25 | |||
| Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) | 851,326 | 7.59 | 21 | |||
| Al-Arabiya Coalition | 10 | |||||
| Movement for Change (Gorran) | 451,858 | 4.023 | 9 | |||
| Islamic Virtue Party (Al-Fadhila and Independent Elite Alliance) |
6 | |||||
| National Reform Trend (Tayyar al Islah) / Al Jaafari | 6 | |||||
| Diyala is Our Identity | 159,605 | 1.42 | 5 | |||
| Iraq Alliance (Etelaf Al-Iraq) | 8[7] | |||||
| Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) | 4 | |||||
| Kurdistan Islamic Group (KIG) | 3 | |||||
| Nineveh National Alliance (allied with Ammar al-Hakim) | 3 | |||||
| Civil Democratic Alliance | 3 | |||||
| Loyalty to Al-Anbar | 3 | |||||
| Iraqi Turkmen Front | 2 | |||||
| Iraqi Loyalty Alliance (Al Wafaa al Iraqi) | 2 | |||||
| Competences and People Gathering (Kafaat wa Jamahir) | 2 | |||||
| Unity of the Iraqis (Wahdat Abnaa al-Iraq) | 2 | |||||
| Other coalitions / groups (one seat each) -National Alliance of Saladin -National Coalition in Saladin -Independent Civil Alternative Coalition -Dignity Alliance (Karama) -Al-Sadiqoun Bloc -The Equitable State Movement -Ad Dawa Iraq Organization -Solidarity in Iraq (Al Tadamon) Alliance -Salvation (Khalas) Alliance -Arab Kirkuk Alliance |
10 | |||||
| Reserved Christian seats -National Rafidain List (Assyrian Democratic Movement) (2) -Assyrian Chaldean Popular Council (2) -Democratic Uruk List (Iraqi Communist Party) (1) |
5 | |||||
| Reserved Mandaean seat - Hareth Shanshal Sunaid al-Harithi (1) |
7,194 | 1 | ||||
| Reserved Yezidi seat - Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress (1) |
14,910 | 1 | ||||
| Reserved Shabak seat - Council of Free Shabaks (1) |
1 | |||||
| Total | 11,222,403 | 328 | 325 | 3
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| Source: ISW | ||||||
Results by governorate
| Party | Total votes | Percentage | Seats | Party Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diyala is Our Identity Coalition (246) | 159,605 | 28.49% | 5 | Amer Habib Khayzaran | ||
| State of Law Coalition (277) | 105,622 | 18.85% | 3 | Nouri al-Maliki | ||
| Al Wataniya Coalition (239) | 68,565 | 12.24% | 2 | Ayad Allawi | ||
| Kurdistani Peace List (258) | 61,807 | 11.03% | 2 | Chirko Mohammad Saleh Ahmad | ||
| Al-Muwatin Coalition (273) | 39,495 | 7.05% | 1 | Ammar al-Hakim | ||
| Al-Ahrar Bloc (214) | 36,057 | 6.44% | 1 | Dia al-Asadi | ||
| Other | 151,941 | 27.12% | 0 | |||
| Total | 560,300 | 100% | 14 | |||
| Sources: al-Sumaria - Diyala Coalitions, IHEC Diyala Results | ||||||
| Party | Total votes | Percentage | Seats | Party Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) (213) | 340,977 | 69.52% | 8 | Masoud Barzani | ||
| Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) (274) | 84,464 | 17.22% | 2 | Mohammad Faraj Ahmad Aziz | ||
| Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) (266) | 37,457 | 7.64% | 1 | Jalal Talabani | ||
| Other | 27,554 | 5.62% | 0 | |||
| Total | 490,452 | 100% | 11 | |||
| Sources: al-Sumaria - Arbil Coalitions, IHEC Dohuk Results | ||||||
| Party | Total votes | Percentage | Seats | Party Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State of Law Coalition (277) | 212,753 | 47.76% | 7 | Nouri al-Maliki | ||
| Al-Ahrar Bloc (214) | 60,818 | 13.65% | 2 | Dia al-Asadi | ||
| Al-Muwatin Coalition (273) | 47,311 | 10.62% | 1 | Ammar al-Hakim | ||
| Islamic Virtue Party (Al-Fadhila and Independent Elite Coalition) (219) |
29,494 | 6.62% | 1 | Hachem Abed Alhassan Ali Hachem | ||
| Other | 95,082 | 21.34% | 0 | |||
| Total | 445,458 | 100% | 11 | |||
| Sources: al-Sumaria - Karbala Coalitions, IHEC Karbala Results | ||||||
| Party | Total votes | Percentage | Seats | Party Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) (266) | 209,964 | 36.79% | 6 | Jalal Talabani | ||
| Kirkuk Turkmen Front List (280) | 71,492 | 12.53% | 2 | Erşad Salihi | ||
| Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) (213) | 63,076 | 11.05% | 2 | Masoud Barzani | ||
| Al-Arabiya Coalition (255) | 53,796 | 9.43% | 1 | Saleh al-Mutlaq | ||
| Kirkuk Arab Coalition (242) | 38,328 | 6.72% | 1 | Abed Alrahman Monched Assi Ali | ||
| Other | 134,103 | 23.50% | 0 | |||
| Total | 570,759 | 100% | 12 | |||
| Sources: al-Sumaria - Kirkuk Coalitions, IHEC Kirkuk Results | ||||||
Maysan Governorate
| Party | Total votes | Percentage | Seats | Party Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State of Law Coalition (277) | 135,684 | 36.39% | 4 | Nouri al-Maliki | ||
| Al-Ahrar Bloc (214) | 99,066 | 26.57% | 3 | Dia al-Asadi | ||
| Al-Muwatin Coalition (273) | 56,786 | 15.23% | 2 | Ammar al-Hakim | ||
| National Reform Alliance / Al Jaafari (205) | 26,246 | 7.04% | 1 | Ibrahim al-Jaafari | ||
| Other | 55,057 | 14.77% | 0 | |||
| Total | 372,839 | 100% | 10 | |||
| Sources: al-Sumaria - Maysan Coalitions, IHEC Maysan Results | ||||||
Muthanna Governorate
| Party | Total votes | Percentage | Seats | Party Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State of Law Coalition (277) | 148,263 | 51.10% | 4 | Nouri al-Maliki | ||
| Al-Muwatin Coalition (273) | 54,670 | 18.84% | 2 | Ammar al-Hakim | ||
| Al-Ahrar Bloc (214) | 27,848 | 9.60% | 1 | Dia al-Asadi | ||
| Other | 59,358 | 20.46% | 0 | |||
| Total | 290,139 | 100% | 7 | |||
| Sources: al-Sumaria - Muthanna Coalitions, IHEC Muthanna Results | ||||||
| Party | Total votes | Percentage | Seats | Party Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State of Law Coalition (277) | 245,215 | 43.90% | 6 | Nouri al-Maliki | ||
| Al-Ahrar Bloc (214) | 82,223 | 14.72% | 2 | Dia al-Asadi | ||
| Iraqi Loyalty Coalition (211) | 67,796 | 12.14% | 2 | Sami Jassem Attiya Al Askari | ||
| Al-Muwatin Coalition (273) | 57,699 | 10.33% | 2 | Ammar al-Hakim | ||
| Other | 105,651 | 18.91% | 0 | |||
| Total | 558,584 | 100% | 12 | |||
| Sources: al-Sumaria - Najaf Coalitions, IHEC Najaf Results | ||||||
| Party | Total votes | Percentage | Seats | Party Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muttahidoon (259) | 363,938 | 36.84% | 12 | Usama al-Nujayfi | ||
| Nineveh Kurdistan Alliance (243) | 185,804 | 18.81% | 6 | Masoud Barzani | ||
| Al Wataniya Coalition (239) | 116,292 | 11.77% | 4 | Ayad Allawi | ||
| National Nineveh Alliance (227) | 79,071 | 8.00% | 3 | Ammar al-Hakim | ||
| Al-Arabiya Coalition (255) | 74,654 | 7.56% | 3 | Saleh al-Mutlaq | ||
| Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) (266) | 70,145 | 7.10% | 2 | Jalal Talabani | ||
| Iraq Alliance (Etelaf Al-Iraq) (262) | 44,080 | 4.46% | 1 | Fadel Jasem Mohammad Aziz al-Chamri | ||
| Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress Yezidi Reserved Seat (292) |
14,910 | 1.51% | 1 | Amin Farhan Jijo Brim | ||
| Shabak Ahrar Council Shabak Reserved Seat (293) |
3,375 | 0.34% | 1 | Houssayn Ali Mohammad Ahmad | ||
| Other | 35,522 | 3.60% | 0 | |||
| Total | 987,791 | 100% | 31 | |||
| Sources: al-Sumaria - Nineveh Coalitions, IHEC Nineveh Results | ||||||
| Party | Total votes | Percentage | Seats | Party Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State of Law Coalition (277) | 173,146 | 35.73% | 5 | Nouri al-Maliki | ||
| Al-Ahrar Bloc (214) | 49,348 | 10.18% | 2 | Dia al-Asadi | ||
| Al-Muwatin Coalition (273) | 45,149 | 9.32% | 1 | Ammar al-Hakim | ||
| Islamic Virtue Party (Al-Fadhila and Independent Elite Coalition) (219) |
35,496 | 7.32% | 1 | Hachem Abed al-Hassan Ali Hachem | ||
| Competences and People Gathering (Kafa'at & Jamaheer) (230) | 32,386 | 6.68% | 1 | Haysam Ramadan Abed Ali Harit al-Jabouri | ||
| Islamic Dawa Party – Iraq Organisation (261) | 27,515 | 5.68% | 1 | Abed Alkarim Ali Housayn Mahdi | ||
| Other | 121,584 | 25.09% | 0 | |||
| Total | 484,624 | 100% | 11 | |||
| Sources: al-Sumaria - Al-Qādisiyyah Coalitions, IHEC Al-Qādisiyyah Results | ||||||
| Party | Total votes | Percentage | Seats | Party Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Arabiya Coalition (255) | 99,496 | 22.57% | 3 | Saleh al-Mutlaq | ||
| Muttahidoon (259) | 79,425 | 18.01% | 3 | Usama al-Nujayfi | ||
| Al Wataniya Coalition (239) | 70,655 | 16.03% | 2 | Ayad Allawi | ||
| National Alliance of Saladin (249) | 46,039 | 10.44% | 1 | Houssayn Ibrahim Saleh al-Chahrastani | ||
| Karama (286) | 36,288 | 8.23% | 1 | Ahmad Charei Ibrahim Aaboub | ||
| Iraq Alliance (Etelaf Al-Iraq) (262) | 28,502 | 6.47% | 1 | Fadel Jasem Mohammad Aziz al-Chamri | ||
| National Coalition in Saladin (222) | 26,910 | 6.10% | 1 | Diyaa Najem Abdallah Ahmad | ||
| Other | 53,492 | 12.14% | 0 | |||
| Total | 440,807 | 100% | 12 | |||
| Sources: al-Sumaria - Saladin Coalitions, IHEC Saladin Results | ||||||
| Party | Total votes | Percentage | Seats | Party Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Movement for Change (Gorran) (234) | 347,799 | 38.94% | 7 | Nawshirwan Mustafa | ||
| Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) (266) | 294,265 | 32.94% | 6 | Jalal Talabani | ||
| Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) (213) | 93,410 | 10.46% | 2 | Masoud Barzani | ||
| Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) (274) | 81,392 | 9.11% | 2 | Mohammad Faraj Ahmad Aziz | ||
| Kurdistan Islamic Group (KIG) (237) | 57,102 | 6.39% | 2 | Mohammad Najib Hassan Ali | ||
| Other | 19,258 | 2.16% | 0 | |||
| Total | 893,226 | 100% | 18 | |||
| Sources: al-Sumaria - Sulaymaniyah Coalitions, IHEC Sulaymaniyah Results | ||||||
| Party | Total votes | Percentage | Seats | Party Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State of Law Coalition (277) | 173,608 | 35.07% | 6 | Nouri al-Maliki | ||
| Al-Ahrar Bloc (214) | 77,774 | 15.71% | 3 | Dia al-Asadi | ||
| Al-Muwatin Coalition (273) | 63,231 | 12.77% | 2 | Ammar al-Hakim | ||
| Other | 180,414 | 36.45% | 0 | |||
| Total | 495,027 | 100% | 11 | |||
| Sources: al-Sumaria - Wasit Coalitions, IHEC Wasit Results | ||||||
Candidate votes
| # | Candidate | Party | Election List | Governorate | Votes | +/– | |
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| 1. | Nouri al-Maliki | Islamic Da'awa Party | State of Law Coalition | Baghdad | 721,782[8] |
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| 2. | Ayad Allawi | Iraqi National Accord | al-Wataniya Coalition | Baghdad | 229,709[8] | 
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| 3. | aaram Muhammad Ali | Movement for Change | Movement for Change (Gorran) List | Sulaymaniyah | 150,613 |
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| 4. | Najmiddin Karim | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan | PUK List | Kirkuk | 150,084 |
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| 5. | Khalaf Abdul al Samad | Islamic Da'awa Party | State of Law Coalition | Basra | 126,848 |
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| 6. | Usama al-Nujayfi | al-Hadba | Muttahidoon | Ninawa | 112,551 |
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| 7. | Hanan Saeed Mohsin Fatlawi | State of Law Coalition | Babil | 90,781[9] |
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| 8. | shirko Mirza Mohammad Amin | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan | PUK List | Sulaymaniyah | 83,663[10] |
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| 9. | Mohammed Ghali Darraji | al-Ahrar Coalition | Baghdad | 78,561[11] |
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| 10. | Ariz Abdullah Ahmed Mahmoud | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan | PUK List | Arbil | 76,380[12] |
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Government formation
The first sitting of the new parliament on 1 July ended after Kurdish and Sunni Arab MPs boycotted the session[why?] and caused its adjournment because of a lack of a quorum. The next sitting on 13 July to choose a president (Kurd), prime minister (Shia) and speaker (Sunni Arab) brought about a consensus for the post of speaker after MP Mohammed al-Karbooli announced that Salim al-Jabouri was the candidate.[13] The government formation was also affected by most international, and some domestic, calls to replace the al-Maliki amidst the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive, while Kurdish control of some northern areas during the fighting and a promise for an Iraqi Kurdish independence referendum, 2014 led to rifts with the central government.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, emerges biggest election winner". CBC News. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
- ^ Iraq Amends Its Electoral Law and Is Ready for Parliamentary Elections in April 2014, historiae, 4 November 2013
- ^ 2013 Report on Iraq, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, p. 7.
- ^ Additional Political Entities Are Approved for the Iraq 2014 Parliamentary Elections, historiae, 27 November 2013
- ^ Iraqi elections will be about Maliki, Al Monitor, 18 November 2013
- ^ Arango, Tim; Duraid Adnan (28 April 2014). "Militants Pose Threat on Eve of National Elections in Iraq". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
- ^ http://www.iraqfirst.org/?p=4249
- ^ a b IHEC Candidate Results
- ^ http://ihec.iq/ihecftp/ntaij2014/babeel.pdf
- ^ http://ihec.iq/ihecftp/ntaij2014/sulaemaneya.pdf
- ^ http://ihec.iq/ihecftp/ntaij2014/baghdad.pdf
- ^ http://ihec.iq/ihecftp/ntaij2014/arbeel.pdf
- ^ http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/07/13/371118/lawmakers-to-discuss-new-iraq-govt/
