2013 Maysan governorate election explained

Election Name:2013 Maysan Governorate election
Country:Iraq
Type:parliamentary
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:2009 Maysan governorate election
Previous Year:2009
Next Election:2017 Maysan governorate council election
Next Year:2017
Seats For Election:All 27 seats for the Maysan Governorate council
Party1:Sadrist Movement
Seats1:9
Colour1:000000
Leader2:Nouri al-Maliki
Party2:State of Law Coalition
Seats2:8
Party3:Al-Mehraab Martyr List
Seats3:6
Colour3:009933
Governor of Maysan
Posttitle:Subsequent Governor
Before Election:Muhammed al-Sudani
Before Party:State of Law Coalition

The Maysan 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="#000000"||align=left|Liberal Coalition|| align=left|Sadrist Movement || Muqtada al-Sadr || 9 || 2 || 89,906|-|bgcolor="#FF0000"||align=left|State of Law Coalition || align=left|Islamic Dawa Party
National Reform Trend ||Nouri Al-Maliki|| 8 || 4* || 77,917|-|bgcolor="#009933"||align=left|Citizens Alliance ||align=left|ISCI|| Ammar al-Hakim|| 6 || 2 || 63,060|-||align=left|Honesty and Generosity || || || 1 || 1 || 11,605|-||align=left|National Partnership Gathering||align=left| || || 1 || 1 || 10,771|-||align=left|National Flag Gathering|| || || 1 || 1 || 9,814|-|bgcolor="#286F42"||align=left|Islamic Dawa Party – Iraq Organisation || || || 1 || 1 || 5,615|-||align=left|Maysan Civil Alliance || || || || || 2,894|-|bgcolor="#098DCD"||align=left|Al Iraqia National and United Coalition || align=left| || || || || 771|-|colspan=2 align=left|Total || || || 27 || - || 272,353|-|colspan=7 align=left|Sources: Musings on Iraq, ISW, IHEC Maysan Results, List of political coalition approved for election in provincial councils - IHEC, al-Sumaria - Maysan Coalitions|-|colspan=7 align=left|Notes: *Although the State of Law Coalition only won 8 seats in 2009, the National Reform Trend ran as part of the State of Law Coalition in 2013. The NRT had won 4 seats in Maysan in 2009.