Northern Syria regional elections, 2017

2017 Northern Syria regional elections

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Turnout	69%
First party Second party Third party   Party LND HNKS/PYDKS TWDS Seats won 4621 152 8
Regions and areas of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria where the elections will take place. Areas where regions are not yet assigned (blue) are excluded from the elections.

The first Northern Syria regional elections were held on 1 December 2017. Local councils for the Jazira Region, Euphrates Region and Afrin Region were elected as well as for the subordinate cantons, areas and districts of the regions of Rojava. This followed the communal elections that were held on 22 September and will be followed by a federal parliamentary election of the Syrian Democratic Council, the region's highest governing body, initially scheduled for January 2018, but was later postponed.

The election was chiefly organized by the High Electoral Commission (Arabic: المفوضية العليا للانتخابات‎; Kurdish: Komseriya Bilind Ya Hilbijartinan‎; Classical Syriac: ܦܩܝܕܳܝܘܬ݂ܐ ܥܠܝܬܐ ܕܓܘܒܳܝ̈ܐ‎) of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.

Over 30 parties and entities with more than 5600 candidates competed for posts in the local councils of the three regions of the DFNS as well as for the region's subordinate cantons, areas and districts. There were 3048 candidates in the Jazira Region with 102 candidates rejected by the Electoral Commission, 1170 candidates in the Euphrates Region with 4 candidates rejected and 1502 candidates in the Afrin Region with 48 candidates rejected. The Kurdish National Council (KNC) boycotted the elections, as it considered the participation of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in them as unilateral.

There were two main electoral lists competing in the election, the Democratic Nation List (Arabic: قائمة الأمة الديمقراطية‎; Kurdish: Lîsta Netewa Demokratîk‎; Classical Syriac: ܩܝܡܬܐ ܕܐܘܡܬܐ ܕܝܡܩܪܛܝܬܐ‎) which consists of 18 parties, and the Kurdish National Alliance in Syria (Arabic: التحالف الوطني الكردي في سوريا‎; Kurdish: Hevbendiya Niştimanî a Kurdî li Sûriyê‎) in Syria which consists of 4 parties. In addition to these two electoral alliances, the Syrian National Democratic Alliance was also running. There was also a separate list of independent candidates.