2018 Iraqi parliamentary election

2018 Iraqi parliamentary election

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All 329 seats in the Council of Representatives 165 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	44.52% ( 17.48 pp)[1]
First party Second party Third party   Leader Muqtada al-Sadr Hadi Al-Amiri Haider al-Abadi Party Parties Sadrist Movement Iraqi Communist Party[2] and others[3] Parties ISCI old guard Badr Organization Al-Sadiqoun Bloc Al-Fadhila Islah Parties Dawa (Abadi) Ataa Movement Hirak INC Alliance Saairun Fatah Alliance Victory Alliance Last election 34 – – Seats won 54 48 42 Seat change 20 (from the Al-Ahrar Bloc) New New Popular vote 1,493,542 1,366,789 1,133,912 Percentage 14.38% 13.16% 10.92%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Nechirvan Barzani Nouri al-Maliki Ayad Allawi Party Kurdistan Democratic Party Parties Dawa (Maliki) IDP–IO Parties Iraqi National Accord and others Alliance None State of Law Al-Wataniya Last election 25 92 21 Seats won 25 25 21 Seat change 67 Popular vote 873,645 725,108 623,594 Percentage 8.41% 6.98% 6.01%   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Ammar al-Hakim Kosrat Rasul Ali Osama al-Nujaifi Party Parties Defectors from ISCI Most of Al-Muwatin Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Parties Al-Hadba Al-Hal IIP Alliance National Wisdom Movement None Uniters for Reform Last election 29 21 23 Seats won 19 18 14 Seat change 10 (from Al-Muwatin-ISCI) 3 9 Popular vote 547,223 616,232 368,633 Percentage 5.27% 5.93% 3.55%
Colours denote which list won the most votes in every governorate
Prime Minister before election Haider al-Abadi Victory Alliance Prime Minister-designate Adil Abdul-Mahdi Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 12 May 2018.^[4] The elections decided the 329 members of the Council of Representatives, the country's unicameral legislature, who in turn will elect the Iraqi president and prime minister.^[5] The Iraqi parliament ordered a manual recount of the results on 6 June 2018.^[6] On 10 June 2018, a storage site in Baghdad housing roughly half of the ballots from the May parliamentary election caught fire.^[7]

In October 2018, Adil Abdul-Mahdi was selected as prime minister five months after the elections.

This election would be the last held under the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method of proportional representation, as electoral reforms passed in 2019 amid the 2019–2021 Iraqi protests created a district-based system, and sought to have representatives represent more local voices (as opposed to the entire governorate they were previously elected from), reduce deadlocks resulting from inconclusive coalition talks, as well as stop infighting amongst list members and a myriad of small lists from siphoning off votes and failing to meet the electoral threshold. It would also prevent parties from running on unified lists, which had previously led some to easily sweep all the seats in a particular governorate.