Iraqi parliamentary election, 2000

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March 27, 2000

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All 250 seats to the National Assembly of Iraq
126 seats were needed for a majority

	First party

Leader	Saddam Hussein
Party	Ba'ath Party
Last election	161
Seats won	165
Seat change	4*
Popular vote	4,936,800
Percentage	66%

Prime Minister before election

Saddam Hussein
Ba'ath Party

Elected Prime Minister

Saddam Hussein
Ba'ath Party

Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 27 March 2000. The election was contested by 522 candidates, including 25 women. Thirty MPs were appointed to represent Iraqi Kurdistan.

Whilst there were a number of candidates, all independent candidates were nominally loyal to the Ba'ath Party, and the rest of the candidates were party members.

The Ba'ath Party won 165 of the 250 seats. Of the 85 remaining seats, 55 were independents, and 30 were appointed by the government to represent the northern Kurdish areas of Sulaymaniyah, Arbil and Dohuk, where no elections took place, and which had been without Iraqi government control following the Gulf War.

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