This is a back-of-an-envelope calculation and it likely contains several errors. I am especially troubled that I keep getting different electoral dividers from everyone I’m comparing notes with! Nonetheless, the partial results are now getting quite substantial in scope, and for what it may be worth, here follows an attempt at simulating the final outcome if the trends observed so far remain stable. Noteworthy tendencies include the strong performance of Allawi everywhere north of Baghdad: This adds up and puts him in front, since the southern governorates remain subdivided. And with the consistently strong showing by the Sadrists and their marginalisation of ISCI within the INA (see today’s earlier post below), is it not time that Allawi focuses his talks on them rather than on Hakim? It is also interesting to see how small parties who miss the threshold of the electoral divider lose out completely because of the counting rules (in small constiuencies like Muthanna and Maysan, 10% of the vote may be insufficient to win a seat), and how the big parties are systematically favoured in the count of the last remaining seats. Obviously, for the same reasons, small changes can have a quite dramatic impact on the final results, so there is still much to play for here.
Percentage counted | INA | SLA | INM | Unity of Iraq | Tawafuq | Kurdistan Alliance | Other or too close to call | |
Basra | 84 | 7 | 14 | 2 | 1 | |||
Maysan | 60 | 6 | 4 | |||||
Dhi Qar | 73 | 9 | 8 | 1 | ||||
Muthanna | 75 | 3 | 4 | |||||
Qadisiyya | 60 | 5 | 5 | 1 | ||||
Babel | 61 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | |||
Najaf | 63 | 5 | 7 | |||||
Karbala | 61 | 3 | 6 | 1 | ||||
Wasit | 88 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||
Baghdad | 60 | 16 | 27 | 24 | 1 | |||
Anbar | 78 | 12 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Salahaddin | 63 | 10 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Diyala | 62 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 | |||
Nineveh | 63 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |
Kirkuk | 69 | 6 | 6 | |||||
Arbil | 64 | 10 | 2+2 | |||||
Dahuk | 61 | 9 | 1 | |||||
Sulimaniya | 75 | 7 | 6+2+1+1 | |||||
Total | 67 | 88 | 90 | 3 | 4 | 39 | 19 |
Excluding 8 minority seats and 7 compensation seats