2005 Afghan parliamentary election

none 2005 Afghan parliamentary election Islamic Republic of Afghanistan parliamentary no 1988 Afghan parliamentary election 1988 2010 Afghan parliamentary election 2010 All 249 seats in the House of the People 18 September 2005 130x130px Abdul Rashid Dostum in September 2014.jpg Abdul Rashid Dostum National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan 33 Burhanuddin Rabbani Cropped DVIDS.jpg Burhanuddin Rabbani Jamiat-e Islami 22 Mohammad Younis Qanooni Senate of Poland.JPG Yunus Qanuni New Afghanistan Party 13 Speaker Yunus Qanuni New Afghanistan Party 2004 Parliamentary elections were held in Afghanistan alongside provincial elections on 18 September 2005. Former warlords and their followers gained the majority of seats in both the lower house and the provincial council (which elects the members of the upper house). Women won 28% of the seats in the lower house, six more than the 25% guaranteed in the 2004 constitution. Electoral system Approximately twelve million voters were eligible to vote for the 249-seat Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of parliament, and 34 provincial councils. The 2,707 parliamentary candidates (328 female, 2,379 male) were all independent; parties were not recognized by law and lists did not exist. This has been the subject of criticism: relatively unknown people could win a seat as easily as very popular candidates. It has also made it considerably difficult for the population to decide whom to vote for, even though some candidates were members of or (financially) backed by a political party. Another source of criticism was the use of the single, non-transferable vote in multi-member constituencies, particularly in the absence of party lists. In other words, each province elects a number of members, but each voter can vote for only one candidate, which risked fragmenting the vote to the point where candidates could be elected virtually by chance. Early returns confirmed this fear. For example, in Farah Province, one of the first provinces to declare its results, 46 candidates competed for five seats. No candidate polled more than 11%, and four of the five elected candidates polled less than 8%. In Kabul, which had 33 seats available, most of the candidates elected received well under 1%, while over 30% of the votes cast went to three candidates; the leading candidate received over 25 times the vote of the candidate elected with the lowest vote share, and several elected candidates received less than 2000 votes.http://d8680609.u106.forthost.com/province.asp?ProvinceID=1 2005 Wolesi Jirga & Provincial Council Elections Results Site 2009-08-21 2009-06-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20090623200632/http://d8680609.u106.forthost.com/province.asp?ProvinceID=1 dead This resulted in a legislature in which the majority of members had little legitimacy. thumb|300px|An Afghan man casting his ballot at a polling station at Lashkar Gah, which is the capital of Helmand province. Because a significant percentage of the Afghan population was illiterate, all candidates had an icon as well. Those icons were included on the lists. These included, but were not limited to, pictures of footballs, cars or different sorts of flowers. Because there were not enough different icons, some candidates had multiple icons as their symbol, such as the multiple footballs of Gulallay Habib (page 16 of the Kabul parliament candidate list). Candidates were not able to choose the icons themselves: instead, the electoral committee chose them. Forty-five candidates were refused because of connections with armed groups or for not giving up their government jobs. People voted for a candidate in their own province. Each province had a number of representatives in parliament, depending on the population. The largest province by population, Kabul, had 33 seats (and 390 candidates, of which 50 were female), whereas the least populous ones like Nuristan, Nimruz and Panjshir, had only two. The total number of candidates for the provincial councils was 3,025. Each province, except Oruzgan, had women running for seats in the provincial council. Female candidates ran for parliament in all districts. District council elections, originally also scheduled for the same date, were not held in 2005 (because district numbers, boundaries, and population figures had to be determined first). These were the first parliamentary elections in Afghanistan in 33 years: after communist rule, civil war and Taliban rule, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan toppled the Taliban regime and after the presidential elections in 2004, parliamentary elections were organized for 2005. Originally, according to the 2001 Bonn agreement, the elections were to be held in June 2004. However, due to the security situation, Hamid Karzai (then interim President, now President of Afghanistan) moved the elections more than a year to the later date. Security was still an issue, as Taliban and others threatened to disrupt the elections violently. Several candidates were killed before the election. A quarter of the seats - 68 seats - in the parliament were reserved for women, as well as 10 seats for the Kuchi community. Those were minimum numbers, with no maximum number of seats for those groups. The 102 members of the Meshrano Jirga, the upper house, are indirectly elected by the provincial councils. Conduct During the 2009 Afghan elections, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald E. Neumann recalled that the "indelible" ink used in the 2005 election to prevent people from voting more than once had turned out to be washable after all.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48142 Karzai and Warlords Mount Massive Vote Fraud Scheme 2009-08-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20100524074225/http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48142 2010-05-24 dead The same problem had also occurred in the 2004 presidential elections, and was repeated again in the 2009 elections.'Indelible' ink used to mark Afghan voters may stain election successSeptember 2024 medicmedic For this and other reasons, there were widespread irregularities, with some observers concluding that fraudulent votes outnumbered genuine ones.Anderson Ben No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan 2012 Oneworld Publications 9781851688630 26 November 2025 https://dod.overdrive.com/media/1814856 Results Turnout was estimated at 50%, substantially lower than the presidential election in October 2004. This was blamed on the lack of identifiable party lists due to Afghanistan's new electoral law, which left many voters unclear about the identities of many candidates. Official turnout was highest in the Turkmen, Uzbek and the Tajik-populated provinces in the north: generally over 60%; and 50% in some of the Pashtun southeastern areas where the Taliban insurgency was strongest. Turnout was surprisingly low (34%) in the capital Kabul, which is dominated by Tajiks. The first results were declared on 9 October, with final results being delayed by accusations of fraud and attempts to resolve these allegations, and were finally announced on 12 November. Only a minority of candidates contested the election on a party ticket, whilst a number of elected MPs were loosely associated with certain parties. General seats Kuchi seats Independents 5884001 239 200249 10 249 0 323792 4573 12443231 JEMB, Psephos Votes by province Province Votes Invalid/blank Turnout RegisteredBadakhshan 232,095 11,645 243,740 400,918Badghis 130,669 6,112 136,781 234,680Baghlan 196,892 12,273 209,165 386,713Balkh 291,804 15,311 307,115 600,893Bamyan 121,879 4,417 126,296 176,008Daikundi 144,982 11,648 156,630 253,589Farah 106,583 4,245 110,828 192,614Faryab 238,427 18,370 256,797 410,716Ghazni 370,255 8,322 378,577 745,225Ghor 206,683 6,610 213,293 320,374Helmand 170,236 23,926 194,162 528,124Herat 474,541 43,385 517,926 824,722Jowzjan 126,951 11,134 138,085 218,548Kabul 380,774 19,036 399,810 1,193,472Kandahar 171,470 17,157 188,627 744,952Kapisa 81,995 1,971 83,966 202,800Khost 185,142 3,331 188,473 336,125Kunar 122,017 4,265 126,282 274,583Kunduz 230,215 16,543 246,758 402,195Laghman 83,873 3,611 87,484 230,948Logar 73,638 2,632 76,270 197,380Nangarhar 366,599 16,571 383,170 804,515Nimroz 34,945 2,805 37,750 85,562Nuristan 79,451 414 79,865 124,583Paktia 247,424 4,065 251,489 394,504Paktika 262,987 1,871 264,858 500,719Panjsher 47,979 1,239 49,218 139,397Parwan 82,665 4,852 87,517 245,385Samangan 104,060 5,895 109,955 165,218Sar-I-Pul 113,588 7,351 120,939 192,294Takhar 251,045 28,201 279,246 418,696Uruzgan 34,283 1,080 35,363 150,865Wardak 98,508 2,155 100,663 243,219Zabul 19,346 1,349 20,695 102,695 Total 5,884,001 323,792 6,207,793 12,443,231 Estimated parties File:Wolesi Jirga 2005.svg National Islamic Movement 33 Jamiat-e Islami 22 New Afghanistan Party 13 Hezbe Eqtedar Milli 12 Hezbi Islami 12 Islamic Dawah Organisation 9 People's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan 9 National United Party 8 Afghan Mellat Party 8 Hezbe Wahdat 3 National Islamic Front 3 Islamic Movement 3 National Solidarity Movement 3 National Solidarity Party 1 Republican Party 0 Independents 110 249 National Democratic Institute Elected members (This list is incomplete) Name Role Constituency Notes Mohammad Younis Qanooni Speaker Kabul Province Member of Afghan cabinet during the Afghan Interim Administration and Afghan Transitional Administration.http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/2006/Feb/johnsonFeb06.asp The Prospects for Post-Conflict Afghanistan: A Call of the Sirens to the Country's Troubled Past V 2 February 2006 Thomas H. Johnson Strategic Insights 2009-06-29 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090301021824/http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/2006/Feb/johnsonFeb06.asp 2009-03-01 Mirwais Yasini First Deputy Speaker Nangarhar Province Candidate for President in 2009.http://www.parliament.af/pve/showdoc.aspx?Id=483 Mohammad Younis Qanooni speaker of WJ meets Saudi Arabia's ambassador in Kabul 2008-11-09 Also in the other part of session Mirwis Yasini first deputy of WJ presented the reports of the yesterday meeting with the country’s president about negotiation with Afghan Taliban and residence areas bombards, the non Consonance of foreign forces attacks with government organs and the lack of perspicuous systems justice and criminals penalty. Government of Afghanistan 2009-05-25 May 2016 medicmedichttp://www.mcclatchydc.com/staff/nancy_youssef/story/71434.html Where's Pentagon 'terrorism suspect'? Talking to Karzai 2009-07-07 Nancy A. Youssef McClatchy News Service 2009-07-08 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090709191518/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/staff/nancy_youssef/story/71434.html 2009-07-09 Mohammad Arif Noorzai First deputy speaker Kandahar Province Deputy speaker, related to President Hamid Karzai through marriage. Burhanuddin Rabbani Badakshan Province Former President of Afghanistan, leader of Islamic Society of Afghanistan Pacha Khan Zadran Paktia ProvinceSignatory to Bonn Conference, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003274095_torture25.html Cloak of secrecy hides abuse in Afghanistan Seattle Times Kevin Sack, Craig Pyes 2006-09-26 2007-10-22 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070307000314/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003274095_torture25.html 2007-03-07 under suspicion of warlordism. http://acd.iiss.org/armedconflict/Mainpages/dsp_ConflictTimeline.asp?DisplayYear=1&ConflictID=181&YearID=610 Armed Conflict Database: Afghanistan Timeline International Institute for Strategic Studies 2007-10-15 2007-10-22September 2017 InternetArchiveBot yes Saleh Mohammad Registani Panjshir Province Prominent anti-Taliban figure, who fought against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda during the resistance period in Afghanistan. Malalai Joya Farah Province Women's rights campaigner, nicknamed "the bravest woman in Afghanistan."http://www.democracynow.org/2007/6/19/the_bravest_woman_in_afghanistan_malalai 'The Bravest Woman in Afghanistan': Malalai Joya Speaks Out Against the Warlord-Controlled Afghan Government & U.S. Military Presence 2008-12-08 Democracy Now! 2007-06-19Afghanistan 2004 election results Sayed Mohmood Hasamuddeen Al-Gailani Ghazni Province Grandson of Pir Gailani, a prominent Sufi, and leader of an Afghan political party. http://www.nps.edu/programs/ccs/Docs/Executive%20Summaries/Ghazni%20Executive%20Summary.pdf Province: Ghazni Navy Postgraduate School 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20091211022941/http://www.nps.edu/programs/ccs/Docs/Executive%20Summaries/Ghazni%20Executive%20Summary.pdf 2009-12-11 dead Ali Akbar Qasimi Ghazni Province General in the Afghan National Army, and was a former commander of the 14th Division, which was garrisoned in Ghazni. Mohammad Daud Sultanzoy Ghazni Province Former pilot for United Airlines. Niyaz Mohammad Amiri Ghazni Province Brother of Shah Mohammad and cousin of Hajji Fazell, Governors of two of Ghazni's districts. Rahila Bibi Kobra Alamshahi Ghazni Province Teacher and journalist. Zahera Ahmadyar Mawlayee Ghazni Province Formerly the head of the Ghazni women's shura. She was a university physics and math instructor at a August 2021 Shah Gul Rezai Ghazni Province Teacher from the Jaghoray district, prior to her election. Abdul Qayyum Sajjadi Ghazni Province Editor of a science journal prior to taking office. Khyal Mohammad Mohammad Khan Ghazni Province Financial chief for the Hezbi Islami, won by two votes. Al-Haj Mamur Abdul Jabar Shulgari Ghazni Province Member of the Loya Jirga that drafted Afghanistan's new Constitution. Abdul Bagi Baryal Ghazni Province Founded an organization for the disabled after he was blinded and lost a leg from a rocket during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Fauzia Gailani Herat Province Won more votes than any other female candidate,2009 Profile: Herat Profile http://www.nps.edu/programs/ccs/Herat/Herat_Executive_2009.pdf Navy Postgraduate School https://www.chicagotribune.com/2005/11/06/a-conservative-afghan-city-elects-a-woman/ A conservative Afghan city elects a woman Chicago Tribune 2005-11-06 Kim Barker 2010-06-13 Her life started out much like those of other Herat women. At age 13, while she still played with dolls, she was forced to marry a man who was 15 years older. She was his second wife. But after moving to Iran during Afghanistan's wars, Gailani fell in love with sports. She started exercising and worked at a gym for women. When her family moved back to Herat after the Taliban fell, she brought two carloads of equipment to start gyms for women in Herat. or any other candidate in Herat. Fazlullah Mojadeddi Logar Province Formerly Governor of Logar. Member of Wolesi Jirga from 2005 to 2010. Did not run in the 2010 elections. Dr. Shakila Hashimi Logar Province Chairperson of the Health Committee Ali Mohammad Logar Province Sat on the Communications, Urban Development, Water, power, Municipal Affairs Committee Wali Wahdatyar Ahmadzai Logar Province Haji Akbar Stanekzai Logar Province Hajji Alam Gull Kuchi Kuchi people Shukria Barakzai Kabul Province Women's rights campaigner, journalist.https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hk77Wi_ryE2Dkz4CIb0h1eyzjglQD96MP42O0 Afghan tech boom: Mullah embraces iPhone Associated Press Jason Staziuso 2009-03-03 2009-03-04 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090306220449/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hk77Wi_ryE2Dkz4CIb0h1eyzjglQD96MP42O0 2009-03-06 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/22/afghanistan-gender-women-taliban Acid attacks and rape: growing threat to women who oppose traditional order: Female MPs speak out as conditions worsen and Islamists gain respectability 2008-11-22 Clancy Chassay The Guardian 2009-07-08http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2006/1667101.htm The Media Report 2006-06-22 Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2009-07-08 Malalai Shinwari Kabul Province Worked as a journalist prior to running for office,https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-07-09-afghan-girls_N.htm Afghan girls traded for debts, blood feuds USA Today Alisa Tang 2007-07-10 2008-08-04 http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2005/08/mil-050812-rferl01.htm Threats, Intimidation Reported Against Female Candidates Global Security Golnaz Esfandiari 2005-08-12 2008-08-04 http://www.rawa.org/election-target.htm Winning Afghan candidates become warlords' targets RAWA Abdul Baseer Saeed 2005-10-29 2008-08-04 Malalai Shinwari, who came in first among Kabul's female candidates, said threats and intimidation have increased since her apparent victory. She blames the armed commanders who also appear to have won seats in the parliament with instigating the violence in their own political interests. reported that her supporters were subjected to intimidation from traditionalists, opposes selling daughters into marriage to pay off debts. Fauzia Nasryar Haidari Kabul Province Fatima Nazry Kabul Province Erfanullah Erfan Kabul Province Alami Balkhi Kabul Province Reported to be "associated with [Yunus] Qanuni's political faction." Anwar Khan Auriakhel Kabul Province Baidar Zazai Kabul Province Abbas Noyan Kabul Province Jamil Karzai Kabul Province Second cousin to President Hamid Karzai, head of the National Youth Solidarity Party, sat on the Internal Security Committee. http://www.nps.edu/programs/ccs/Docs/Executive%20Summaries/Kabul_Executive_Summary.pdf Profile: Kabul Profile Navy Postgraduate School 2009 2010-06-15 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100611163136/http://www.nps.edu/Programs/CCS/Docs/Executive%20Summaries/Kabul_Executive_Summary.pdf 2010-06-11 Obaidullah Kandahar Province Served on the Economics committee. http://www.nps.edu/programs/ccs/Docs/Executive%20Summaries/Kandahar_Provincial_Overview_Jan09.pdf Profile: Kandahar Profile Navy Postgraduate School January 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20110606124708/http://www.nps.edu/programs/CCS/Docs/Executive%20Summaries/Kandahar_Provincial_Overview_Jan09.pdf 2011-06-06 dead Malali Ishaqzai Kandahar Province Served on the Government Services Committee. Haji Ahmad Shah Khan Asakzai Kandahar Province Sat on the Armed Service Committee. Haji Ameer Lali Kandahar Province Sat on the Armed Services Committee. Fariba Ahmadi Kakar Kandahar Province Sat on the Armed Services Committee. Habibullah Jan Kandahar Province Sat on the "Kandahar Security Shura", reported to have been a "sometimes rival of [President] Karzai"; assassinated in 2008, reportedly by the Taliban. Khalid Pashtoon Kandahar Province Deputy chair of the Internal Security Committee. Noorulhaq Olumi Kandahar Province Chair of the Armed Services Committee. Shakiba Hashemi Kandahar Province Sat on the Environment Committee. Sayyad Mohammad Kandahar Province Sat on the Armed Services Committee. Amir Khan Sabri Khost Province Sat on the Communications Committee. http://www.nps.edu/programs/ccs/Khost.html Profile: Khost Profile Navy Postgraduate School January 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20100619184458/https://www.nps.edu/Programs/CCS/Khost.html 2010-06-19 dead Mawlawi Hanif Shah al-Hussaini Khost Province Sat on the Justice Committee. Sahira Sharif Khost Province Sat on the Education Committee. Sayed Mohammad Gulabzoy Khost Province Sat on the Internal Security Committee. Gul Haar Jalal Kunar Province Sat on the Disabled and Martyrs Committee. http://www.nps.edu/programs/ccs/Docs/Executive%20Summaries/Kunar%20Executive%20Summary.pdf Profile: Kunar Profile Navy Postgraduate School 2009 2010-06-14 Shujaul Mulik Kunar Province Sat on the Internal Security Committee. Mawlawi Shahzada Shahid Kunar Province Sat on the Counter-narcotics committee. Al-Haj Sahib Rahman Kunar Province Sat on the Economics Committee, assassinated by a suicide bomber on November 6, 2007. Sayed Durahman Laghman Province Former madrassa teacher.http://www.nps.edu/programs/ccs/Docs/Executive%20Summaries/Laghman_Provincial_Overview_CCS.pdf Program for Culture and Conflict Studies: Laghman Province Naval Postgraduate School 2008-05-30 Engineer Mohammad Alim Qarar Laghman Province Former commander with the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin militia. Zefnoon Safai Laghman Province Sat on the legislature's budget committee. Esmatullah Muhabat Laghman Province Killed in 2005. Mulla Abdul Salam Rakity Zabul Province Former Taliban commander,http://www.nps.edu/programs/ccs/Zabul.html Profile: Zabul Profile Navy Postgraduate School 2009 2010-06-15 live https://web.archive.org/web/20100619160338/https://www.nps.edu/Programs/CCS/Zabul.html 2010-06-19 sat on the Internal Security Committee. Hameedullah Khan Tokhi Zabul Province Sat on the Internal Security Committee. Toorpekai Zabul Province Sat on the Communications Committee. Ahmad Waheed Khan Tahiri Herat Province Abdul Hadi Jamshidi Herat Province Abdul Salam Qazizada Herat Province Ahmad Behzad Herat Province Ahmad Waheed Khan Tahiri Herat Province Aqayee Jebraili Herat Province Aziz Ahmad Naadim Herat Province Gul Ahmad Herat Province Mohammad Arif Tayab Herat Province Mohammad Salih Saljoqi Herat Province Najla Dehqan Nizhad Herat Province Qazi Nazir Ahmad Herat Province Rahimi Jami Herat Province Saadat Fatahi Herat Province Sayyad Mohammad Shafiq Herat Province Shahnaz Hemati Herat Province Zarin Herat Province Fatima Aziz Kunduz Province See also Enemies of Happiness, a documentary film shot during the election References Joint Electoral Management Body. Election results by province can be found here. Drei Frauen im afghanischen Wahlkampf, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 15 September 2005 Electionworld: elections in Afghanistan. Retrieved September 28, 2007. BBC Afghanistan election guide. Retrieved September 28, 2007. Candidate statistics. Retrieved September 28, 2007 Radio Free Europe/azadiradio: Afghanistan Votes. Retrieved September 28, 2007 Afghanistan: Old Problems, New Parliament, New Expectations U.S. Institute of Peace Briefing, October 2005. Retrieved September 28, 2007 DefenseLINK News: Afghans Enjoy Successful Election Day Afghanistan Category:Elections in Afghanistan Parliamentary election Afghanistan Category:National Assembly (Afghanistan) Category:History of Afghanistan (1992–present) Parliamentary