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Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 12 May 2018. The elections decided the 329 members of the Council of Representatives, the country's unicameral legislature, who in turn will elect the Iraqi President and Prime Minister. Members of the Council of Representatives are elected through the open list form of party-list proportional representation, using the 18 governorates of Iraq as the constituencies. Eight seats remain reserved for minority groups at the national level: five for Assyrians and one each for Mandaeans, Yazidis, and Shabaks.However, the Council of Representatives voted on 11 February 2018, to add an extra seat for minorities, in the Wasit Governorate for Feyli Kurds, making the total number of parliamentarians equal to 329. A total of 6,904 candidates participated in the elections. As of 26 December, a total of 204 parties had registered to contest the elections.
A curfew was declared by prime minister Al-Abadi from midnight Friday to 7 pm Saturday in all governorates except Baghdad, where the curfew started at noon Friday. Election day in Iraq was extremely successful from a security aspect, as no attacks were registered anywhere in the country.
Party Seats +/–
Alliance of Revolutionaries for Reform 54 New
Conquest Alliance 47 New
Victory Alliance 42 New
Kurdistan Democratic Party 25 0
State of Law Coalition 25 –67
National Alliance 21 0
National Wisdom Movement 19 –10
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan 18 –3
Decision Alliance 14 –9
Anbar Our Identity 6 New
Gorran Movement 5 –4
New Generation 4 New
Baghdad Alliance 4
Eradaa Movement 3 New
Kirkuk Arab Coalition 3 +2
Nineveh Is Our Identity 3 New
Turkmen Front of Kirkuk 3 +1
Tower and National Mass Coalition 3 New
Ability Coalition for Change 2
Babylon Movement 2
Biariq al-Khayr 2
Coalition for Democracy and Justice 2 New
Eabirun 2
Kurdistan Islamic Group 2 –1
Kurdistan Islamic Union 2 –2
National Party of the Masses 2
Tamdun Alliance 2
Chaldean List 1
Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council 1 –1
Civil Democratic Alliance 1
Civilized Alliance 1 New
Democratic Approach 1
Limya Shawi al-Hilaly 1
Rally of the Men of Iraq 1
Rafidain List 1 –1
Tahaluf Salah al-Diyn Huiatna 1
Yazidi Progress Party 1
Independents 2
Invalid/blank votes – – –
Total 329 +1
A communist woman representing the Alliance of Revolutionaries for Reform, Suhad al-Khateeb, was elected in the elections to represent the city of Najaf, deemed to be one of the holiest religious and conservative cities in Iraq. Khateeb, who is a teacher, anti-poverty and women's rights activist said upon her victory "the Communist party have a long history of honesty - we were not agents for foreign occupations. We want social justice, citizenship, and are against sectarianism, and this is also what Iraqis want."
