On Nov. 11, the Iraqi people voted in their sixth parliamentary elections since the fall of Saddam Husseinβs regime in 2003. The election environment was quite positive and hopeful. More than 100 political parties and 7,744 candidates competed in the elections to enter the 329-seat Iraqi Parliament. Taking the election results into consideration, this mess in politics will gradually decrease. More than 40 candidates received only one vote in the elections. Small political parties have largely failed. Therefore, the number of political parties may decline in the future.
No single party won the majority of the seats in the elections. The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission announced that the Reconstruction and Development coalition led by Prime Minister Muhammad S. Al Sudani, which secured 46 seats in the parliament, came first.
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