2010 Afghan parliamentary election

2010 Afghan parliamentary election
18 September 2010
All 249 seats in the House of the People
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Burhanuddin Rabbani Muhammad Mohaqiq Abdul Rashid Dostum
Party Jamiat-e Islami PIUPA Junbish
Alliance Pro-Karzai Pro-Karzai
Last election 22 seats 9 seats 33 seats
Seats won 17 11 10
Seat change 5 2 23
Speaker before election

Yunus Qanuni
Naveen

 Elected Speaker

Abdul Raouf Ebrahimi
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Afghanistan on 18 September 2010 to elect members of the House of the People (Wolesi Jirga). The Afghan Independent Election Commission - established in accordance with the article 156 of the Constitution of Afghanistan for the purpose of organizing and supervising all elections in the country - postponed the poll from its original date of 22 May to September 18.

The results were delayed on several occasions, but were finalized on October 31. The Taliban issued a direct threat to all those involved in the House of the People elections.

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