2014 Iraqi parliamentary election

2014 Iraqi parliamentary election
All 328 seats to the Council of Representatives; 165 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	62%
	Colours denote which party won the most votes in every governorate
Prime Minister before election; Nouri al-Maliki; State of Law	Prime Minister-designate ; Haidar al-Abadi; State of Law

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.

Quick Facts All 328 seats to the Council of Representatives 165 seats needed for a majority, Turnout ...

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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.

More information Governorate, Seats 2010 ...

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
Muthanna Governorate	7	7
Najaf Governorate	12	12
Nineveh Governorate	31	31
Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate	11	11
Saladin Governorate	12	12
Sulaymaniyah Governorate	17	18	+1
Wasit Governorate	11	11
Compensatory seats	7	0	−7
Minorities	8	8
Total	325	328	+3

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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.

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]

The IHEC confirmed the results on 25 May.

More information Party, Votes ...



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	State of Law Coalition	3,141,835	24.14	92	3
	Al-Muwatin	982,003	7.55	29	+11
	Al-Ahrar Bloc	917,589	7.05	28	New
	Kurdistan Democratic Party	852,198	6.55	19	–10
	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	789,519	6.07	19	+5
	Al-Wataniya	686,017	5.27	21	–7
	Muttahidoon	680,690	5.23	23	New
	Gorran Movement	451,858	3.47	9	+1
	Al-Arabiya Coalition	315,858	2.43	10	–6
	Islamic Virtue Party	211,257	1.62	6	New
	National Reform Trend	192,763	1.48	6	New
	Nineveh Kurdistan Alliance	185,804	1.43	6	–
	Kurdistan Islamic Union	165,856	1.27	4	–1
	Diyala Is Our Identity	159,605	1.23	5	New
	Iraq Alliance	153,672	1.18	5	New
	Kurdistan Islamic Group	137,504	1.06	3	–
	Elites Movement	116,268	0.89	3	New
	Civil Democratic Alliance	112,563	0.86	3	+3
	National Partnership Gathering	110,933	0.85	3	New
	National Nineveh Alliance	79,071	0.61	3	New
	Iraqi Turkmen Front	71,492	0.55	2	–
	Iraqi Loyalty Coalition	67,796	0.52	2	New
	Kafa'at & Jamahir Coalition	67,084	0.52	2	New
	Kurdistani Peace List	61,807	0.47	2	–
	Anbar Loyalty Coalition	58,994	0.45	3	New
	Unity of the Sons of Iraq	46,627	0.36	2	New
	National Alliance of Saladin	46,039	0.35	1	New
	Independent Civil Alternative Coalition	41,090	0.32	1	New
	Arab Alliance of Kirkuk	38,328	0.29	1	–
	Karama Alliance	36,288	0.28	1	New
	Al-Sadiqoun Bloc	36,026	0.28	1	–
	Equitable State Movement	31,973	0.25	1	New
	Islamic Dawa Party	27,515	0.21	1	–
	National Coalition in Saladin	26,910	0.21	1	New
	Solidarity in Iraq Coalition	26,013	0.20	1	New
	Rafidain List	24,353	0.19	2	–1
	Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council	23,781	0.18	2	0
	Khalas Coalition	18,229	0.14	1	New
	Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress	14,910	0.11	1	0
	Iraqi Communist Party	12,626	0.10	1	+1
	Mandean List	7,194	0.06	1	–
	Council of Free Shabaks	3,375	0.03	1	–
	Other parties	1,782,452	13.70	0	–
Total		13,013,765	100.00	328	+3

Registered voters/turnout		21,503,875	–
Source: ORSAM