Al-Anbar governorate council election, 2005

30 January 2005 (2005-01-30)

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All 41 seats for the al-Anbar Governorate council

Turnout

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Tariq al-Hashimi	Falah Hassan al-Naqib	Misha'an al-Juburi
Party	Iraqi Islamic Party	Independent Iraqi Group	Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc
Seats won	29	8	4
Popular vote	2,692	755	328
Percentage	71.31%	20%	8.69%

Subsequent Governor

Raja Nawaf Farhan al-Mahalawi
Iraqi Islamic Party

The election for the governorate council of Iraq's Al Anbar Governorate were held on January 30, 2005, the same date as the Iraqi legislative election.

The largely Sunni province was one of the most violent in Iraq during the Iraqi insurgency, and turnout was extremely low, with the vast bulk of Anbars residents choosing to boycott the election out of a mixture of distrust for a system perceived to be unfair, and a fear of violence from insurgent groups. Of the total population of some 2.2 million only 3775 voted in the governorate council election. Some 13,000 voted in the concurrently held transitional assembly elections.

Helped by the low turnout, the Iraqi Islamic Party was able to win 70.1% of the governorates council seats on a total of 2692 votes.

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