2018 Iraqi parliamentary election

2018 Iraqi parliamentary election

12 May 2018

All 329 seats in the Council of Representatives
165 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Saairun Muqtada al-Sadr 14.47 54
Fatah Hadi Al-Amiri 13.18 48
Victory Alliance Haider al-Abadi 10.95 42
KDP Nechirvan Barzani 8.52 25
State of Law Nouri al-Maliki 6.99 25
Al-Wataniya Ayad Allawi 6.04 21
PUK Kosrat Rasul Ali 5.97 18
NWM Ammar al-Hakim 5.56 19
Iraqi Decision Alliance Osama al-Nujaifi 3.55 14
Gorran 1.94 5
NGM 1.79 4
Anbar is Our Identity 1.39 6
Coalition of Competencies for Change 1.36 2
Eradaa Movement 1.33 3
Coalition for Democracy and Justice 1.19 2
KIU 1.00 2
Civilized Alliance 0.96 2
Baghdad Alliance 0.94 3
KIG 0.89 2
Arab Alliance of Kirkuk 0.81 3
Nineveh Is Our Identity 0.80 3
Turkmen Front of Kirkuk 0.77 3
National Fortress Coalition 0.75 3
Civil Democratic Alliance 0.69 1
Banners of Benevolence 0.62 2
National Party of the Masses 0.52 2
The Passing 0.48 2
Democratic Approach 0.36 1
Babylon Movement 0.32 2
Civic Party 0.31 1
Saladin Is Our Identity 0.31 1
Assembly of the Men of Iraq 0.25 1
CSAPC 0.19 1
Rafidain List 0.19 1
Chaldean List 0.16 1
Yazidi Progress Party 0.06 1
Independent 0.82 3
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister-designate
Haider al-Abadi
Victory Alliance
Adil Abdul-Mahdi
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 12 May 2018. The elections decided the 329 members of the Council of Representatives, the country's unicameral legislature, who in turn will elect the Iraqi president and prime minister. The Iraqi parliament ordered a manual recount of the results on 6 June 2018. On 10 June 2018, a storage site in Baghdad housing roughly half of the ballots from the May parliamentary election caught fire.

In October 2018, Adil Abdul-Mahdi was selected as prime minister five months after the elections.

This election would be the last held under the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method of proportional representation, as electoral reforms passed in 2019 amid the 2019–2021 Iraqi protests created a district-based system, and sought to have representatives represent more local voices (as opposed to the entire governorate they were previously elected from), reduce deadlocks resulting from inconclusive coalition talks, as well as stop infighting amongst list members and a myriad of small lists from siphoning off votes and failing to meet the electoral threshold. It would also prevent parties from running on unified lists, which had previously led some to easily sweep all the seats in a particular governorate.