For future reference #2

Courtesy of the Toronto Star, the provisional results of the Iraqi elections.

The big three, with about 98% of the vote and 255 of 275 seats, were, of course:
- United Iraqi Alliance (Shiite alliance backed by Shiite Muslim clergy): 4,075,295 (48%), 140 seats.
- Kurdistan Alliance (coalition of two main Kurdish factions): 2,175,551 (26%), 75 seats.
- Iraqi List (headed by interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi): 1,168,943 (14%), 40 seats.

These were the other slates winning seats:
- Iraqis (headed by interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawer): 150,680, 5 seats.
- Turkomen Iraqi Front (represents the countries ethnic Turks): 93,480, 3 seats.
- National Independent Elites and Cadres Party: 69,938, 3 seats.
- Communist Party: 69,920, 2 seats.
- Islamic Kurdish Society: 60,592, 2 seats.
- Islamic Labour Movement in Iraq: 43,205, 2 seats.
- National Democratic Alliance: 36,795, 1 seat.
- National Rafidain List (Assyrian Christians): 36,255, 1 seat.
- Reconciliation and Liberation Entity: 30,796, 1 seat.

Other results:
- Iraqi Islamic Party (main Sunni group headed by Mohsen Abdel-Hamid): 21,342
- Assembly of Independent Democrats (headed by Sunni elder statesman Adnan Pachachi): 12,728
- National Democratic Party (headed by Naseer Kamel al-Chaderchi, Sunni lawyer and member of the former Iraqi Governing Council): 1,603

Total votes: 8,550,571

As the BBC noted, the results are provisional because parties have three days to lodge any appeals. Total turnout was around 58%, close to the 57% predicted beforehand and far below the 72% claimed in the immediate wake of the voting.