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February 04, 2005
Alliance total reaches 2.2 million votes
The United Iraqi Alliance, which has the endorsement of Iraq's top Shiite clerics, won more than two-thirds of the 3.3 million votes counted so far, the election commission said. Allawi's ticket was running second with more than 579,700 votes....The new election figures represented partial returns from 10 of Iraq's 18 provinces, said Hamdiyah al-Husseini, an election commission official. All 10 provinces have heavy Shiite populations, and the Alliance had been expected to run strong in those areas.
For example, the returns included the 15 percent of votes in Basra provinces counted and certified so far, and 80 percent tallied in the less densely populated Muthanna province. Votes from 35 percent of the more than 5,200 polling centers around the country have been counted, al-Husseini said.
The Alliance also won the most out of the 265,000 votes cast by Iraqis abroad, with 36 percent, compared to 29 percent for the main Kurdish coalition and nine percent for Allawi, according to a complete count released by the International Organization for Migration, which organized the vote in 14 countries.
Posted by Mike at February 4, 2005 02:18 PM
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