Election Name: | 2000 Iraqi parliamentary election |
Country: | Iraq |
Flag Year: | 1991 |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1996 Iraqi parliamentary election |
Previous Year: | 1996 |
Next Election: | January 2005 Iraqi parliamentary election |
Next Year: | 2005 (Jan) |
Seats For Election: | All 250 seats in the National Assembly 126 seats needed for a majority |
Election Date: | 27 March 2000 |
Leader1: | Saddam Hussein |
Party1: | Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region |
Alliance1: | National Progressive Front (Iraq) |
Last Election1: | 161 |
Seats1: | 165 |
Seat Change1: | 4 |
Popular Vote1: | 4,936,800 |
Percentage1: | 66% |
Prime Minister | |
Before Election: | Saddam Hussein |
Before Party: | Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region |
After Election: | Saddam Hussein |
After Party: | Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region |
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 27 March 2000.[1] The elections were contested by 522 candidates,[2] including 25 women.[2] 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, Erbil and Dohuk, where no elections took place, and which had not been under Iraqi government control since the Gulf War.[2]