- UIA, the main Shiite list: 47.6 per cent
- PUK/KDP Kurdish coalition: 25.4 per cent
- Allawi's list: 13.6 per cent.
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.MSNBC reports:
Officials said that only 3,775 valid votes were cast in the insurgency-plagued Sunni province of Anbar. 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 — and little political influence.Which underestimates the political influence of bombs and guns, doesn't it?
UPDATE: AP reports:
The United Iraqi Alliance (Shiite alliance backed by Shiite Muslim clergy): 4,075,295 The Kurdistan Alliance (coalition of two main Kurdish factions): 2,175,551 The Iraqi List (headed by interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi): 1,168,943 Iraqis (headed by interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawer): 150,680 The Turkomen Iraqi Front (represents the countries ethnic Turks): 93,480 National Independent Elites and Cadres Party: 69,938 The Communist Party: 69,920 The Islamic Kurdish Society: 60,592 The Islamic Labor Movement in Iraq: 43,205 The National Democratic Alliance: 36,795 National Rafidain List (Assyrian Christians): 36,255 The Reconciliation and Liberation Entity: 30,796 Iraqi Islamic Party (main Sunni group headed by Mohsen Abdel-Hamid): 21,342 Assembly of Independent Democrats (headed by Sunni elder statesman Adnan Pachachi): 12,728 National Democratic Party (headed by Naseer Kamel al-Chaderchi, Sunni lawyer and member of the former Iraqi Governing Council): 1,603 Total votes: 8,550,571 Invalid votes: 94,305 ___ Source: Iraq's election commission.
