Overview
- The election commission’s near-complete count shows the Reconstruction and Development list with more than 1.3 million votes, about 217,500 ahead of the next list.
- The Kurdistan Democratic Party placed second with just over one million votes, followed by a Sunni-led list with roughly 945,000.
- Turnout reached 56.1%, up from 2021, with more than 300 observers from the United Nations, the Arab League and other groups monitoring the vote.
- No bloc won a majority of the 329 seats, so negotiations among Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish parties could take weeks or months.
- Supporters gathered on Baghdad’s Tahrir Square to celebrate, as the campaign featured deadly incidents and a boycott call by Muqtada al-Sadr.