Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election, 2005

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Elections to the Kurdistan National Assembly, the parliament of the Kurdish Autonomous Region (Iraqi Kurdistan) of Iraq, were held on 30 January 2005, to coincide with the national Iraqi election and elections to the provincial councils. Turnout was high across the Kurdish areas of Iraq.

There were 111 seats up for election, by proportional representation.

Electoral Alliance	Votes		Seats	Leaders
	Total count	Percent
Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan	1,570,663	89.55%	104	Jalal Talabani, Masoud Barzani
Islamic Group of Kurdistan	85,237	4.86%	6	Ali Abd-al Aziz
Kurdistan Toilers Party	20,585		1	Qadir Aziz
National Democratic Alliance
National Rafidain List				Yonadem Kana
List 137	11,748
List 125	10,953
List 142	10,262
others	44,471
Invalid votes	?	—
Total votes cast	1,753,919	—

The Kurdish National Assembly did not sit until 4 June 2005.[1]

[edit] References

• Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq