2009 Kurdistan Region general election

2009 Kurdistan Region general election

25 July 2009
Presidential election
 
Candidate Masoud Barzani Kamal Mirawdeli
Party Kurdistan List Independent
Popular vote 1,266,397 460,323
Percentage 69.6% 25.3%

President before election

Masoud Barzani
KDP

Elected President

Masoud Barzani
KDP

National Assembly election

All 111 seats in the Kurdistan National Assembly
56 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Kurdistan List Barham Salih 57.37 59 −19
Gorran Nawshirwan Mustafa 23.72 25 New
Service & Reform 12.84 13 −4
KIM Sadiq Abdulaziz 1.45 2 New
TDH Kalkhi Najmaddin Noureddin 0.98 3 −1
Social Justice 0.80 1 −3
CSAPC Jameel Zaito 0.56 3 New
ITF Kan'an Shakir Aziz 0.38 1 New
ADM Yonadam Kanna 0.30 2 0
Erbil Turkmen 0.21 1 New
Independents 0.42 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Nechervan Barzani
KDP
Barham Salih
PUK

General elections were held in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on 25 July 2009 to elect a president and the 111 members of the National Assembly. Around 2.5 million people were eligible to vote, although those outside the region were not allowed to vote. The elections had originally been scheduled to take place on 19 May, but were delayed until 25 July. A referendum to approve the constitution of Kurdistan Region originally planned for the same day was delayed until 1 August, and eventually cancelled.

Campaigning for the elections officially started on 22 June 2009 and was to be stopped 48 hours before voting started. The elections were held with 84 registration centers and 5,403 polling stations in Kurdistan Region and 5 polling stations in Baghdad.