Iraqi parliamentary election, 2000

March 27, 2000

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.^[1] The election was contested by 522 candidates,^[2] including 25 women.^[2] Thirty MPs were appointed to represent Iraqi Kurdistan.^[3]

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.^[2]

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 outwith Iraqi government control following the Gulf War.^[2]

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Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Ba'ath Party			165	+4
	Independents			55
	Appointees for Kurdish Provinces			30
Invalid/blank votes			–	–	–
Total		7,480,000		250	0
Source: Nohlen et al., IPU

References

↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p97 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
1 2 3 4 Iraq Inter-Parliamentary Union
↑ Nohlen et al., p101

Elections and referendums in Iraq

Parliamentary elections	1924 1925 1928 1930 1933 1934 1935 1937 (Feb) 1937 (Dec) 1939 1943 1947 1948 1953 1954 (Jun) 1954 (Sep) 1958 1980 1984 1989 1996 2000 2005 (Jan) 2005 (Dec) 2010 2014

Presidential elections	1995 2002

Governorate elections	2005 2009 2013 2014

Referendums	1921 2005

See also: Elections and referendums in Iraqi Kurdistan

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