2000 Iraqi parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 27 March 2000.[1] The elections were contested by 522 candidates,[2] including 25 women.[2] 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]

2000 Iraqi parliamentary election

27 March 2000
All 250 seats in the National Assembly of Iraq 126 seats were needed for a majority
Leader Saddam Hussein Party Ba'ath Party Alliance National Progressive Front Last election 161 Seats won 165 Seat change 4 Popular vote 4,936,800 Percentage 66%
Prime Minister before election Saddam Hussein Ba'ath Party Elected Prime Minister Saddam Hussein Ba'ath Party

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, Erbil and Dohuk, where no elections took place, and which had not been under Iraqi government control since the Gulf War.[2]

Results

Alliance	Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
National Progressive Front	Ba'ath Party			165	+4
	Independents			55
	Appointees for Kurdish Provinces	–	–	30	0
Invalid/blank votes			–	–	–
Total				250	0
Registered voters/turnout		9,200,000	88.6	–	–
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. Iraq Inter-Parliamentary Union