Sunday March 7, 2010
Details about Iraq's election
AP - Iraqis vote on Sunday for their second full four-year parliament since the 2003 U.S. invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.
Here are some details about the election:
* Around 6,200 candidates nominated by 86 political entities are vying for 325 seats in the Council of Representatives, up from 275 seats in the 2005 election. Among the total are 1,718 women running for 81 seats.
* 18.9 million registered voters in a nation of approximately 30 million people.
* More than 26 million ballots printed.
* 300,000 poll workers in more than 50,000 polling stations, each one serving up to 420 voters; 100,000 ballot boxes procured for the election.
* 16 countries hosting voting for Iraqis living abroad, estimated to number up to 2 million (Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Netherlands, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Britain, United States)
* 10 hours of polling - stations open from 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) to 5 p.m. (1400 GMT)
* Iraq's security forces numbering 670,000 soldiers, police, and others, supported by 96,000 U.S. troops, are providing security for the elections.
* In the last parliamentary election in December 2005, the initial distribution of seats in the previous 275-seat chamber was as follows:
United Iraqi Alliance (Shi'ite coalition) - 128 seats
Kurdish Alliance (Two Kurdish parties) - 53 seats
Iraq Accordance Front (biggest Sunni bloc) - 44 seats
National Iraqi List (Iyad Allawi's group) - 25 seats
National Dialogue Front (Saleh al-Mutlaq) - 11 seats
Kurdish Islamic Union - 5 seats
All the rest - 9 seats
SOURCES: Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), United Nations.
Details about Iraq's election
AP - Iraqis vote on Sunday for their second full four-year parliament since the 2003 U.S. invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.
Here are some details about the election:
* Around 6,200 candidates nominated by 86 political entities are vying for 325 seats in the Council of Representatives, up from 275 seats in the 2005 election. Among the total are 1,718 women running for 81 seats.
* 18.9 million registered voters in a nation of approximately 30 million people.
* More than 26 million ballots printed.
* 300,000 poll workers in more than 50,000 polling stations, each one serving up to 420 voters; 100,000 ballot boxes procured for the election.
* 16 countries hosting voting for Iraqis living abroad, estimated to number up to 2 million (Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Netherlands, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Britain, United States)
* 10 hours of polling - stations open from 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) to 5 p.m. (1400 GMT)
* Iraq's security forces numbering 670,000 soldiers, police, and others, supported by 96,000 U.S. troops, are providing security for the elections.
* In the last parliamentary election in December 2005, the initial distribution of seats in the previous 275-seat chamber was as follows:
United Iraqi Alliance (Shi'ite coalition) - 128 seats
Kurdish Alliance (Two Kurdish parties) - 53 seats
Iraq Accordance Front (biggest Sunni bloc) - 44 seats
National Iraqi List (Iyad Allawi's group) - 25 seats
National Dialogue Front (Saleh al-Mutlaq) - 11 seats
Kurdish Islamic Union - 5 seats
All the rest - 9 seats
SOURCES: Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), United Nations.
