Bagdad Election Results

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An alliance of Shi’ite Islamist groups won the most votes in Iraq’s election, but the percentage it received – 47.6 percent – was lower than many expected, according to the final tally released on Sunday.

A coalition of the two main Kurdish parties won 25.4 percent and a bloc led by Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi got 13.6 percent. Overall turnout was 8.55 million votes, which was 58 percent of those registered to vote. The Shi’ite United Iraqi Alliance won 4.075 million votes, the Kurds won 2.175 million and Allawi’s list won 1.168 million, according to the tally released by the Electoral Commission.

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Alert: Results of Election

Declared just now!

169 The Iraqi Alliance wined by 4,75295 votes which represents 131 seat!

The Kurdistan Union comes second just over 2 million votes which is 70 seats…

Iyad Alawi alliance got 38 seats only.

Other details later.

Congratulations to the Iitylaf Iraqi Al-Mouahad.

For free, democratic and prosperous Iraq!

Iraq for all the Iraqis.

Thank you for our friends from the Coalition forces who provided security for election and on the top pf them those who lost their life among them.

No for the terrorists
Yes for democratic and free Iraq and Middle East.

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Iraq’s long-oppressed Shiite majority has swept to a resounding victory in the country’s first free elections in half a century, winning almost half the vote, according to final results released on Sunday.

“Today marks the birth of a new Iraq and a free people,” election commission official Farid Ayar told reporters.

The main Shiite coalition list, which had the blessing of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, won 48.1 per cent of the votes for the new 275-member National Assembly, according to election commission results.

The ticket grouping the two main Kurdish parties also made a strong showing, winning 25.7 per cent of the vote, but interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s list came a distant third with 13.8 per cent.

Turnout was about 59 per cent, with a total of 8,456,266 people voting on January 30 in the first election since the downfall of Saddam Hussein after the US-led invasion of March 2003.

Sunday’s results are “final but uncertified” and will only become definitive and official if no challenges are lodged over the next three days.

Despite threats of a bloodbath by extremist Sunni Arab insurgents, election day passed without any major attacks and was internationally hailed as a success.

But officials and observers fear that Sunni marginalisation could further fuel an insurgency which has resulted in thousands of deaths and crippled the country’s economy since the March 2003 US-led invasion.

And negotiations have already begun for the minority community of the ruling elite under Saddam to be included in the political process.

A government line-up is not expected immediately as officials have warned that it could take up to several weeks to reach an ethnic and religious balance acceptable to all parties.

All key posts are due to be announced at the same time.

The members of parliament will have to select a president and his two deputies, who in turn will have to unanimously pick a prime minister.

The new premier will then be tasked with choosing a cabinet that has to be approved by a majority in parliament.

According to the interim constitution, the new National Assembly has to write a permanent one by August 15, but the parliament speaker and a majority of the chamber can decide on a non-renewable six-month extension. If the initial deadline is met, the country’s new basic law will be submitted to a referendum on October 15 before polls for a new constitutionally-elected government are held on December 15.

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Now let’s see how long it takes certain posters to come in and put a spin on it and say it is all bad:D 😉 God Bless
 
I think it is good news. A little more people voted than the estimates settled down to and the Shiites will have to form a coalition.
 
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Now let’s see how long it takes certain posters to come in and put a spin on it and say it is all bad:D 😉 God Bless
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The Los Angeles Times already has Post-Election Optimism Ebbs in Iraq
 
It is great news:) I am still waiting for the down spin.God Bless
 
Iraq’s Democracy Yields Shared Power

The elections held in Iraq last month have resulted in a parliament where no one faction gained a majority, meaning that a legislative coalition will have to form in order to select the executives of the new Iraqi government. The Iraqi turnout amounted to 8.5 million votes, close to the estimates of 60% that came after the polls closed:

The Shiites likely will have to form a coalition in the 275-member National Assembly with the other top vote-getters — the Kurds and Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s list — to push through their agenda and select a president and prime minister. The president and two vice presidents must be elected by a two-thirds majority. … The Shiite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance ticket received 4,075,295 votes, or about 48 percent of the total cast, Iraqi election officials said. The Kurdistan Alliance, a coalition of two main Kurdish factions, was second with 2,175,551 votes, or 26 percent, and the Iraqi List headed by the U.S.-backed Allawi finished third with 1,168,943 votes, or about 14 percent.

Those three top finishers represent about 88 percent of the total, making them the main power brokers as the assembly chooses national leaders and writes a constitution.

Since the election of the executives will require two-thirds of the parliament, the Sistani slate’s 48% won’t be nearly enough to forma government. The Shi’ites will need to form a coalition with either the Kurds, or with the Sunnis and some small groups that together took 12% of the votes for the assembly.

The much-feared dominance of the Shi’ites – which was always overblown – has been avoided, and the political negotiations will have a salutary effect on interdenominational relations. Look for a Sunni to hold one of the top executive jobs, perhaps even Ayad Allawi again, as a way to encourage national unity and bring the Sunnis into the process.

UPDATE: Allawi isn’t a Sunni, he is a secular Shi’ite. Iraqi president Ghazi al-Yawer is a Sunni, one that enthusiastically supported the election, but his slate got less than one percent of the vote, making him an unlikely choice for PM. Still, I’d look to Allawi, whose slate also finished out of the running, to make it back into the executive, although I think a secular Sunni will be PM.

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Down spin on such an incredible triumph of the Iraqi efforts for freedom…now who’d do that…we’re Peaceful people here 😉
 
Notes & Comments
(02/15/2005) Clifford D. May, Notes & Comments

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/doc_img/261372.gif IRAQI ELECTION RESULTS: The ballots have been counted and, once again, there is reason for optimism. Starting at the back of the pack, Iyad Allawi, perceived by many as Washington’s candidate, came in third. What does that prove? That this election was decided by Iraqis – not by Americans. That’s how we wanted it. That’s how we said it should be. That’s how it was.

The Kurds came in second. That’s good, too. Not just because the Kurds suffered greatly under Saddam and did indeed celebrate the arrival of American troops by cheering, waving flags and throwing flowers (far from CNN’s cameras, unfortunately), but also because the Kurds will insist on minority rights – not just for themselves but also for the Sunnis. [Read More]
 
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