Numbers being reported by most wire services:
Reuters:<\/a> <\/p>\n 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 on Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n MSNBC reports:<\/a><\/p>\n Officials said that only 3,775 valid votes were cast in the insurgency-plagued Sunni province of Anbar.<\/p>\n That means the minority that dominated Iraq under Saddam Hussein will have few seats in the 275-member assembly that will be formed by the election \u2014 and little political influence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Which underestimates the political influence of bombs and guns, doesn’t it? The United Iraqi Alliance (Shiite alliance backed by Shiite Muslim clergy): 4,075,295<\/p>\n The Kurdistan Alliance (coalition of two main Kurdish factions): 2,175,551<\/p>\n The Iraqi List (headed by interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi): 1,168,943<\/p>\n Iraqis (headed by interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawer): 150,680<\/p>\n The Turkomen Iraqi Front (represents the countries ethnic Turks): 93,480<\/p>\n National Independent Elites and Cadres Party: 69,938<\/p>\n The Communist Party: 69,920<\/p>\n The Islamic Kurdish Society: 60,592<\/p>\n The Islamic Labor Movement in Iraq: 43,205<\/p>\n The National Democratic Alliance: 36,795<\/p>\n National Rafidain List (Assyrian Christians): 36,255<\/p>\n The Reconciliation and Liberation Entity: 30,796<\/p>\n Iraqi Islamic Party (main Sunni group headed by Mohsen Abdel-Hamid): 21,342<\/p>\n Assembly of Independent Democrats (headed by Sunni elder statesman Adnan Pachachi): 12,728<\/p>\n National Democratic Party (headed by Naseer Kamel al-Chaderchi, Sunni lawyer and member of the former Iraqi Governing Council): 1,603<\/p>\n Total votes: 8,550,571<\/p>\n Invalid votes: 94,305<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Source: Iraq’s election commission. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Numbers being reported by most wire services: UIA, the main Shiite list: 47.6 per cent PUK\/KDP Kurdish coalition: 25.4 per cent Allawi’s list: 13.6 per cent. Reuters: 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
UPDATE: AP reports:<\/a><\/p>\n