Iraq Election Results: Seat Allocations in National Assembly

Sunday, February 13, 2005

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Based on the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq's Rules and Regulations No. 17 'Seat Allocation', today's results would see the National Assembly seats distributed as follows:

List Name	List Number	Number of Votes	Seats Won
The Islamic Labor Movement in Iraq	111	43,205	2
The Kurdistan Alliance	130	2175551	75
The United Iraqi Alliance	169	4075295	140
The Turkomen Iraqi Front	175	93,480	3
National Rafidain List (Assyrian Christians)	204	36,255	1
Iraqis	255	150,680	5
The National Democratic Alliance	258	36,795	1
The Islamic Kurdish Society	283	60,592	2
The Iraqi List	285	1168943	40
The Reconciliation and Liberation Entity	311	30,796	1
The Communist Party	324	69,920	2
National Independent Elites and Cadres Party	352	69,938	3
TOTAL		8,011,450	275

Basic Explanation

Seat allocations for Iraq's 275-member National Assembly are calculated as follows:

The total number of valid votes cast (8,456,266) is divided by 275 to give an initial quota of 30,750.
Any list which has less votes than the initial quota is excluded. All those that have as many votes of more than the initial quota are filtered out.
A new total votes is calculated based on the total number of votes cast to the filtered out lists (8,011,450).
A seat quota is then calculated by dividing the new total by 275, which is 29,132.55.
The number of votes a filtered party received is divided by the seat quota to give the total number of seats. Remainders are dealt with by giving an extra seat to each list in order of highest remainder until all 275 seats are allocated.

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