Iraqi elections – seats by party

by | Feb 13, 2005 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Juan Cole has worked out some numbers for seats by party:

  • United Iraqi Alliance (Shiite): 133 seats
  • Kurdish Alliance: 71
  • Iraqiya (Allawi = Secular Shiites) 38
  • Iraqiyyun (al-Yawir= Sunni Arabs) 5
  • Turkmen Front of Iraq 3
  • Cadres and the Chosen (Sadrist Shiites) 3
  • People’s Union (Communist) 3
  • Kurdish Islamic Coalition 2
  • Organization of Islamic Action (Shiite) 2
  • Democratic National Alliance (Abd Faisal Ahmad) 1
  • National Mesopotamian List (Christian) 1
  • Welfare and Liberation Bloc (Mash’an al-Juburi, Sunni) 1
  • Caucus for Iraqi National Unity (Nahru Muhammad Abdul Karim, Sunni) 1
  • Independent Democrats (Adnan Pachachi, Sunni) 1
  • Iraqi Islamic Party (Muhsin Abdul Hamid, Sunni; had withdrawn) 1
  • Islamic Dawa Movement (splinter of Dawa, headed by Adil Majid) 1
  • Iraqi National Caucus (Husain Muhammad Abdullah) 1
  • Constitutional Monarchy Movement (Sharif Ali b. Husain) 1
  • Royal Iraqi Hashimi Caucus (Sharif Ma’mul al-Naysan) 1
  • National Democratic Alliance (Malik Duhan al-Hasan) 1
  • Democratic Iraqi Caucus (Ahmad Jabir Abdullah) 1
  • National Front for Iraqi Unity 1

See his post here for the details of how it works out.

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