final polling numbers
Leading parties in Iraq voteHere is a list of the political alliances receiving the most votes in Iraq's Jan. 30 national elections:
The United Iraqi Alliance (Shiite alliance backed by Shiite Muslim clergy): 4,075,295
The Kurdistan Alliance (coalition of two main Kurdish factions): 2,175,551
The Iraqi List (headed by interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi): 1,168,943
Iraqis (headed by interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawer): 150,680
The Turkomen Iraqi Front (represents the countries ethnic Turks): 93,480
National Independent Elites and Cadres Party: 69,938
The Communist Party: 69,920
The Islamic Kurdish Society: 60,592
The Islamic Labor Movement in Iraq: 43,205
The National Democratic Alliance: 36,795
National Rafidain List (Assyrian Christians): 36,255
The Reconciliation and Liberation Entity: 30,796
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
Invalid votes: 94,305
Source: Iraq's election commission.
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