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The next elections to the Iraqi Parliament are yet to be scheduled.

Background

The 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election resulted in violent clashes in Baghdad as well as a political crisis of eleven months.[1] On 3 August 2022, Muqtada al-Sadr called for snap elections.[2]

Electoral system

The electoral system was changed following the 2018 parliamentary elections amid the 2019–2021 Iraqi protests. Previously conducted under proportional representation calculated using the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method with the governorates as constituencies, the 2021 elections were conducted under single non-transferable vote in 83 multi-member constituencies.[3] The distribution of the number of electoral districts in each governorate relies on the number of quota seats for women multiplied by 3 or 5 seats for the electoral district depending on the governate's population size. One-quarter of total seats are reserved for women in the constituencies, while nine are reserved for minorities (5 for Christians and 1 each for Yazidis, Shabaks, Mandaeans and Feyli Kurds).[4][5]

References

  1. ^ "Iraqi MPs from Muqtada al-Sadr's bloc resign". www.aljazeera.com. Archived from the original on 13 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  2. ^ "'Dissolve the parliament': Influential Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr calls for fresh elections in Iraq". WION. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  3. ^ "تعليمات توزيع المقاعد لانتخابات مجلس النواب العراقي 2021". Independent High Electoral Commission (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 11 September 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  4. ^ "Iraq's Electoral Preparations and Processes Report No. 4 (10 December 2020)". UN Assistance Mission for Iraq. Archived from the original on 21 September 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-21 – via Reliefweb.
  5. ^ "قانون انتخابات مجلس النواب العراقي : رقم (٩ (لسنة ٢" (PDF). Ministry of Justice (in Arabic). 11 May 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-08-13.
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