2025 Iraqi parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Iraq on 11 November 2025.^[1] The elections will determine the 329 members of Iraq's Council of Representatives, who are responsible for electing the country's president and approving the appointment of the prime minister.^[2][3]

2025 Iraqi parliamentary election

← 2021 11 November 2025

All 329 seats in the Council of Representatives 165 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Current seats Saairun Muqtada al-Sadr Progress Party Mohamed Al-Halbousi State of Law Nouri al-Maliki KDP Masoud Barzani Fatah Hadi al-Amiri Kurdistani Coalition Bafel Talabani Azem Alliance Khamis al-Khanjar Emtidad Alaa al-Rikabi NGM Shaswar Abdulwahid Ishraqat Kanoon Jaafar Aziz Tasmim Alliance Sarah al-Salihi ANSF Haider al-Abadi National Contract Falih al-Fayyadh Babylon Movement Rayan al-Kildani Identity Alliance Ahmed M. al-Jubouri Decisive Reform Thabit al-Abbasi National Approach Ammar Tu'ma Rights Movement Hassan Muanes Eqtadar Watan Abdulhussein Abtan KDK Ali Bapir Party of the Masses Ahmed A. al-Jubouri Iraqi Turkmen Front Arshad al-Salihi Iraqi National Project Jamal al-Dhari Furatayn Movement Mohamed al-Sudani National Product Ghadanfar al-Batikh Wasit Independents Mohamed al-Mayahi Arabs of Kirkuk Rakan al-Jubouri Loyalty and Change Iskander Witwit National Hopes Mohamed al-Wazzan The Nation's Party Mashaan al-Jubouri Biladi Zahra al-Salman National Support Falih al-Hereshawi YMRP Amin Jejo Independents − Incumbent Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani Furatayn Movement

Background

The 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election resulted in violent protests in Baghdad as well as a political crisis of eleven months.^[4] On 3 August 2022, Muqtada al-Sadr called for snap elections, but was unsuccessful, which led to the pro-Iran State of Law Coalition forming a government. Muqtada al-Sadr left politics and his party resigned from the Council of Representatives.^[5] There were speculations he would return to politics ahead of the elections^[6] but in July 2025, Sadr announced that he will boycott the elections^{[citation needed]}.

Electoral system

The electoral system was changed following the 2018 parliamentary elections amid the protests from 2019 to 2021. Previously parliamentary elections had been held using proportional representation, with seats allocated using the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method, using governorates as constituencies. As a result, the 2021 parliamentary elections were held using single non-transferable vote in 83 multi-member constituencies.^[7] The distribution of electoral districts in each governorate relies on the number of quota seats for women multiplied by three or five seats for the electoral district depending on the governate's population. A quarter of the total seats are reserved for women in the constituencies, while nine are reserved for minorities (five for Christians and one each for Yazidis, Shabaks, Mandaeans and Feyli Kurds).^[8][9]