2000 Iraqi parliamentary election

none Iraq 1991 parliamentary 1996 Iraqi parliamentary election 1996 January 2005 Iraqi parliamentary election January 2005 All 250 seats in the National Assembly 126 seats needed for a majority 27 March 2000 Saddam Hussein in 1998.png Saddam Hussein Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region National Progressive Front (Iraq) 161 165 4 File:2000 Iraq election.svg Seats by governorate#00c41c Ba'ath #d2d2d2 Independents #fff515 Appointed Prime Minister Saddam Hussein Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region Saddam Hussein Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 27 March 2000.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p97 0-19-924958-X The elections were contested by 522 candidates,Iraq Inter-Parliamentary Union including 25 women. 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. The Ba'ath Party won 165 of the 250 seats. Of the 85 remaining elected members, 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. Results Ba'ath Party 165 +4 Independents 55 –28 Appointees for Kurdish Provinces 30 New 0 9200000 IPU References Iraq Parliamentary Parliamemtary Category:Parliamentary elections in Iraq Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:One-party elections