Election to the National Assembly in Iraq in 2005

The election to the National Assembly in Iraq on January 30, 2005 was the first election in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein .

275 seats were awarded in the elections. A total of 7,200 candidates ran on 111 lists for the elections to the National Assembly. An important task of the new parliament was the drafting of the Iraqi constitution by August 15th. With a turnout of 58% of the voters who registered, there was a victory for the United Iraqi Alliance of Ibrahim al-Jafari .

There were other parties and independent candidates, all of which missed a seat in parliament.

Results

Election result according to electoral alliance

Political party	be right		Seats
United Iraqi Alliance (mostly Shiite)	48.2%	4.079 million	132
Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan	25.7%	2.175 million	71
Iraqi List (List of Former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi )	13.8%	1.168 million	38
The Iraqis (List of Interim President Ghazi al-Yawar )	1.8%	152,000	5
Iraqi Turkmen Front	1.1%	93.094	3
National Independent Cadres and Elites	0.8%	69,938	3
People's Union ( Iraqi Communist Party List )	0.8%	69,920	2
Islamic community in Kurdistan	0.7%	60,592	2
Islamic Action in Iraq - Central Command	0.5%	43.205	2
National Democratic Alliance	0.4%	36,795	1
National Rafidain List (Chaldo Assyrians)	0.4%	36,255	1
Reconciliation and Liberation Block	0.4%	30,796	1
Iraqi National Unity Assembly	0.3%	23,686	-
Council of Independent Democrats (List of former Foreign Minister Adnan Pachachi )	0.2%	21,728	-
Iraqi Islamic Party	0.2%	21,342	-

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• Overall results by governorate (PDF; 26 kB)
• The Economist: Iraqi legislative election who's who (pay site)
• BBC: Questions and Answers on the Iraqi election , Discussion of some of the main lists and candidates