2009 Salah ad Din governorate election

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2009 Salah ad Din Governorate election
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  2005 31 January 2009 (2009-01-31) 2013  

All 28 seats for the Salah ad Din Governorate council
 First partySecond party
  Allawi8.jpg
Leader Ayad al-Samarrai Ayad Allawi
Party Tawafuq Iraqi National List
Last election03
Seats before03
Seats won55
Seat changeIncrease2.svg5Increase2.svg2

 Third partyFourth party
 
Leader Saleh al-Mutlaq
Party National Iraqi Project Front Iraqi National Dialogue Front
Last election30
Seats before30
Seats won33
Seat changeNo changeIncrease2.svg3

Governor of Salah ad Din before election

Hamed Hamood Shekti al-Qaisi
DPAK

Subsequent Governor

Mutashar al-Aliwi
Tawafuq

The Salah ad Din governorate election of 2009, was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.

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Campaign

The governor of Salah ad Din, Hamad Hamood al-Qaysi, stood for the Iraqi National List of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. The INL also recruited local tribal leaders. The INL were successful in the elections because they had consistently opposed the de-Baathification policies of the Iraqi government, which had caused significant unemployment in the province. [1]

The Iraqi National List was a coalition of Iraqi political parties who ran in the December 2005 Iraqi elections and got 8.0% of the vote and 25 out of 275 seats.

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The Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc's main slogan was "Get Out, Get Out Occupier" [1]

The Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc or Kutla al-Musalaha wa't-Tahrir was an Iraqi political party. The Sunni, liberal, and secularist party was founded as the Iraqi Homeland Party in Jordan in 1995 by exiles from Saddam's regime. A prominent member was Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel al-Majid. The party is closely linked to the powerful Juburi tribe and its current head is Mish'an al-Juburi. The party is also supported by former Ba'athists and the party has pushed for the reintegration of members of the old regime. Unlike many Sunni parties it decided not to boycott the January 2005 Iraqi election. In the voting it received some 31,000 votes, enough for one seat in the legislature. During the subsequent December elections, it increased its representation to 3 seats.

Results

Immediately after the election, the Iraqi National List and the Iraqi National Dialogue Front claimed victory in Salah ad Din. [2]

The Iraqi Front for National Dialogue also known as Hiwar is a Sunni Arab-led Iraqi political party.

In March, the INDF said they would form an alliance with the State of Law Coalition. [3]

e    d  Summary of the 31 January 2009 Salah ad Din governorate election results
CoalitionAllied national partiesSeats (2005)Seats (2009)ChangeVotes
Salahuddin Accordance Front Iraqi Accord Front -5Increase2.svg557,264
Iraqi National Accord INL 35Increase2.svg256,853
National Iraqi Gathering33-35,482
Iraqi National Dialogue Front -3Increase2.svg335,131
Iraqi Scholars and Intellectuals Group -2Increase2.svg223,772
Iraqi Turkmen Front ITF52Decrease2.svg319,013
Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc 62Decrease2.svg418,743
Salahuddin National Front-2Increase2.svg218,079
List of the Unified Democratic Coalition in Salah al-Din Governorate
Brotherly and Co-existence Coalition
PUK, KDP 82Decrease2.svg617,651
State of Law Coalition Islamic Dawa Party 32Decrease2.svg114,422
Coalition for Iraqi National Unity 5-Decrease2.svg5
Unified List4-Decrease2.svg4
Gathering of Independents in Salah al-Din2-Decrease2.svg2
National Al-Risaliya List Sadr 2-Decrease2.svg2
Total4128Decrease2.svg13403,764
Sources: this article - [4]

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