Iraqi parliamentary election, 2014

Iraqi parliamentary election, 2014

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All 328 seats to the Council of Representatives 165 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	62%
Leader Nouri al-Maliki Dia al-Asadi Ammar al-Hakim Alliance State of Law Coalition al-Ahrar al-Muwatin Last election 89 39 18 Seats won 92 34 29 Seat change 3 5 11 Popular vote 3,141,835 917,589 982,003 Percentage 24.14% 7.05% 7.55%   Leader Usama al-Nujayfi Ayad Allawi Masoud Barzani Alliance Muttahidoon al-Wataniya KDP Last election 9 28 29 Seats won 23 21 25 Seat change 14 7 4 Popular vote 680,690 - 1,038,002 Percentage 5.23% -   Leader Barham Salih Saleh al-Mutlaq Nawshirwan Mustafa Alliance PUK al-Arabiya Gorran Last election 14 16 8 Seats won 21 10 9 Seat change 7 6 1 Popular vote 851,326 451,858
Colours denote which party won the most votes in every governorate
Prime Minister before election Nouri al-Maliki State of Law Coalition Prime Minister-designate Haidar al-Abadi State of Law Coalition

Nouri al-Maliki
State of Law Coalition

Haidar al-Abadi
State of Law Coalition

Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 30 April 2014. The elections decided the 328 members of the Council of Representatives who will in turn elect the Iraqi President and Prime Minister.

The open list form of party-list proportional representation, using the governorates as the constituencies, is the electoral system used. The counting system has been changed slightly from the largest remainder method to the modified Sainte-Laguë method due to a ruling by the Supreme Court of Iraq that the previous method discriminated against smaller parties. Seven "compensatory" seats that were awarded at the national level to those parties whose national share of the vote wasn't reflected in the seats won at the governorate level have been allocated to individual governorates. Eight seats remain reserved for minority groups at the national level: five for Assyrians and one each for Mandaeans, Yezidis, and Shabaks.

Prior to the elections, the parliament decided to expand from 325 to 328. As with the 2010 elections, 8 seats were reserved for ethnic and religious minorities. Unlike previous elections, there were no compensatory seats; reserved seats that previously favorited big-time parties.