2013 Baghdad governorate election explained

Election Name:2013 Baghdad Governorate election
Country:Iraq
Type:parliamentary
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:2009 Baghdad governorate election
Previous Year:2009
Next Election:2017 Baghdad governorate council election
Next Year:2017
Seats For Election:All 58 seats for the Baghdad Governorate council
Leader1:Nouri al-Maliki
Party1:State of Law Coalition
Last Election1:28
Seats Before1:28
Seats1:20
Seat Change1:8
Popular Vote1:569,178
Percentage1:36.3%
Swing1:1.6
Colour1:FF0000
Party2:Muttahidoon
Last Election2:0
Seats Before2:0
Seats2:7
Seat Change2:7
Popular Vote2:183,716
Percentage2:11.7%
Swing2:11.7%
Colour2:0D4E76
Party3:Al-Mehraab Martyr List
Last Election3:0
Seats Before3:3
Seats3:6
Seat Change3:3
Popular Vote3:163,022
Percentage3:10.4%
Swing3:5%
Colour3:009933
Party4:Sadrist Movement
Last Election4:5
Seats Before4:5
Seats4:5
Popular Vote4:137,808
Percentage4:8.8%
Swing4:0.1
Seat Change4:No change
Colour4:000000
Governor of Baghdad
Posttitle:Subsequent Governor
Before Election:Salah Abd al-Razzaq
Before Party:State of Law Coalition

The Baghdad governorate election of 2013 was held on 20 April 2013 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan, Kirkuk, Anbar, and Nineveh.

Results

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"!align="left" colspan=2 valign=top|Party/Coalition!! Allied national parties !! Leader !!Seats !! Change !!Votes|-|bgcolor="#FF0000"||align=left|State of Law Coalition || ||Nouri Al-Maliki|| 20 || 8 || 569,178|-|bgcolor="#0D4E76"||align=left|Muttahidoon ||align=left| ||Usama al-Nujayfi || 7 || 7 || 183,716|-|bgcolor="#009933"||align=left|Citizens Alliance ||align=left| || Ammar al-Hakim|| 6 || 3 || 163,022|-|bgcolor="#000000"||align=left|Liberal Coalition|| ||Muqtada al-Sadr|| 5 || - || 137,808|-|bgcolor="#098DCD"||align=left|Al Iraqia National and United Coalition || || || 3 || 2 || 80,066|-||align=left|National Independent Elite Movement || || || 3 || 3 || 78,429|-|bgcolor="#00009F"||align=left|Arabian Al Iraqia || || Saleh al-Mutlaq || 3 || 1 || 70,644|-||align=left|Citizenship State Bloc|| || || 2 || 2 || 48,605|-||align=left|National Partnership Gathering || || || 1 || 1 || 31,889|-|bgcolor="#286F42"||align=left|Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organization|| || || 1 || 1 || 24,339|-||align=left|Iraqi Justice and Democracy Alliance ||Iraqi Communist Party People's Party (Iraq) National Democratic Party (Iraq) Social Democratic Current ||Faiq Al Sheikh Ali|| 1 || 1 || 23,388|-||align=left|Free Iraqi Coalition || || || 1 || 1 || 15,957|-|bgcolor="#F6BE22"||align=left|Iraq's Benevolence and Generosity List|| || || 1 || 1 || 15,162|-||align=left|People's Will || || || || || 10,595|-||align=left|New Dawn Bloc || || || || || 10,559|-||align=left|Urban Civil Tribes Gathering || || || || || 8,966|-|bgcolor="#CCFF33"||align=left|Feylis Kurds Brotherhood List
Kurdish Minority seat || || || 1 || || 8,675|-||align=left|Iraqi Civil State Coalition || || || || || 7,567|-||align=left|Civilians Are Coming Coalition || || || || || 7,209|-||align=left|Iraq's Integrity Gathering || || || || || 6,834|-||align=left|Arabs' Frontier || || || || || 6,330|-||align=left|Iraq's Advocates for State Support || || || || || 5,594|-||align=left|National Flag Gathering || || || || || 5,346|-||align=left|Iraq Cadres Bloc || || || || || 5,292|-||align=left|National Moderation Front || || || || || 4,463|-|bgcolor="#DDDDDD"||align=left|Hajj Hamid Ibrahim Abdul Karim ||align=left|Independent || || || || 4,443|-||align=left|National Tribal Movement in Iraq || || || || || 4,127|-||align=left|Islamic Advocates' Party || || || || || 3,246|-||align=left|Equitable State Movement || || || || || 2,922|-|bgcolor="#DDDDDD"||align=left|Haydar Kathem Makawi ||align=left|Independent || || || || 2,903|-||align=left|The Iraqi Conservative Secretaries' Party Future List || || || || || 2,881|-||align=left|Iraq's Party for Freedom Nabil Al Aaraji || || || || || 2,543|-||align=left|Baghdad’s Image || || || || || 2,208|-||align=left|Law Advocate Knights' Bloc || || || || || 1,999|-||align=left|Independent Iraqi Qualifications Gathering || || || || || 1,954|-||align=left|Baghdad Turkmen list
Turkmen Minority seat || || || 1 || || 1,947|-||align=left|Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Gathering Coalition
Christian Minority seat || || || 1 || || 1,513|-||align=left|The Advocate's Party || || || || || 1,179|-||align=left|United National Christian Assembly || || || || || 1,066|-||align=left|Feylis Kurds Pledge Bloc || || || || || 1,032|-|bgcolor="#DDDDDD"||align=left|Raed Jabar Saleh
Sabian Minority seat||align=left|Independent || || 1 || || 781|-||align=left|Iraqi Authentic Renaissance Movement || || || || || 692|-||align=left|Dakhel Yussef Aamara || || || || || 630|-|colspan=4 align=left|Total || 58 || 1 || 1,567,699|-|colspan=7 align=left|Sources: ISW, al-Sumaria - Baghdad Coalitions, IHEC Baghdad Results