2000 Iraqi parliamentary election

2000 Iraqi parliamentary election

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All 250 seats in the National Assembly
126 seats needed for a majority
  First party
 
Leader Saddam Hussein
Party Ba'ath Party
Alliance NPF
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 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]

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]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p97 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
  2. ^ a b c d Iraq Inter-Parliamentary Union