Iraqi parliamentary election, 2000

Iraqi parliamentary election, 2000
Iraq
March 27, 2000
All 250 seats to the National Assembly of Iraq
126 seats were needed for a majority
  First party
 
Leader Saddam Hussein
Party Ba'ath Party
Last election 161
Seats won 165
Seat change Increase4*
Popular vote 4,936,800
Percentage 66%
Prime Minister before election

Saddam Hussein
Ba'ath Party

 Elected Prime Minister

Saddam Hussein
Ba'ath Party

Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 27 March 2000.[1] The election was contested by 522 candidates,[2] including 25 women.[2] Thirty MPs were appointed to represent Iraqi Kurdistan.[3]

Whilst there were a number of candidates, all independent candidates were nominally loyal to the Ba'ath Party, and the rest of the candidates were party members.[2]

The Ba'ath Party won 165 of the 250 seats. Of the 85 remaining seats, 55 were independents, and 30 were appointed by the government to represent the northern Kurdish areas of Sulaymaniyah, Arbil and Dohuk, where no elections took place, and which had been outwith Iraqi government control following the Gulf War.[2]

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Results

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Ba'ath Party 165+4
Independents 55
Appointees for Kurdish Provinces 30
Invalid/blank votes –––
Total7,480,000 2500
Source: Nohlen et al., IPU

References

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p97 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
  2. 1 2 3 4 Iraq Inter-Parliamentary Union
  3. ↑ Nohlen et al., p101
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