Elections in Iraq gives information on election and election results in Iraq. An election is a process in which a vote is held to choose amongst candidates to fill an office, or amongst political parties offering a slate of potential office holders for a house of representatives. ...

Under the Iraqi constitution of 1925, Iraq was a constitutional monarchy, with a bicameral legislature consisting of an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate. The lower house was elected every four years by manhood suffrage (that is, women did not vote). The first Parliament met in 1925. Ten general elections were held before the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958. The electoral system, however, was manipulated by the King and his advisors, who were Sunni Muslims, to ensure that the Shi'a majority were prevented from taking power. 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... A constitutional monarchy is a form of government established under a constitutional system which acknowledges a hereditary or elected monarch as head of state. ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ... Shia Islam (Arabic: follower; English has traditionally used Shiite or Shiite) is the second largest Islamic denomination; some 10-15% of all Muslims are said to follow a Shia tradition. ...

Between 1958 and 2003 Iraq was ruled by a series of military regimes, all dominated by members of the Sunni Arab minority. Both the Shi'a and the Kurds were excluded from power, and under the regime of Saddam Hussein, who came to power in 1979, they were persecuted. Saddam's regime was largely run by Sunni Arabs from Tikrit, his home region. On October 16, 2002, after a well-publicized show election, Iraqi officials declared that Saddam had been re-elected to another seven-year term as President by a 100% unanimous vote of all 11,445,638 eligible Iraqis, eclipsing the 99.96% received in 1995. The United States and others outside Iraq said the vote lacked any credibility. Stories later surfaced stating that voting was compulsory and that the "yes" box had already been checked for voters in advance. 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kurdistan is an area in the Middle East, inhabited mainly by the Kurds, covering parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, and Syria. ... Saddam Hussein Saddām Hussein ʻAbd al-Majīd al-Tikrīt, spelled Husayn or Hussain; Arabic صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي; born April 28, 1937 1) was President of Iraq from 1979 until 2003. ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Tikrit (تكريت, also transliterated as Takrit or Tekrit) is a town in Iraq, located 140 km northwest of Baghdad on the Tigris river (at 34. ... October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap years). ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A show election is an election that is held purely for show, that is, without any significant political purpose. ...

The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 overthrew Saddam's regime and installed an interim government in which all Iraq's ethnic and religious communities were represented. Under U.S. pressure, this government decided to hold elections in January 2005 to begin the process of writing a constitution. Pro-U.S. groups and the formerly excluded Shi'a and Kurd factions claimed that the January 30, 2005, elections were the first genuine free elections in Iraq's history, or at least since the 1950s. Opponents of the occupation claim that the elections were not genuinely free and fair, pointing to several flaws in the process. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, also called the Iraq War or Operation Iraqi Freedom, began March 20, 2003, initiated by the United States, the United Kingdom and a loosely-defined coalition. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Iraqi police officers hold up their index fingers marked with purple indelible ink, a security measure to prevent double voting. ...

Results

• Iraqi parliamentary election, 2005

Iraqi police officers hold up their index fingers marked with purple indelible ink, a security measure to prevent double voting. ...

See also

• History of Iraq
• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system

This history of Iraq includes an overview from prehistory to the present in the region of the current state of Iraq in Mesopotamia. ... This electoral calendar lists the national/federal direct elections in the countries listed in the list of countries. ...

External links

• Electionworld
• Adam Carr's Election Archive