2000 Iraqi parliamentary election explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. [Dieter Nohlen]
  2. http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2151_00.htm Iraq