The next elections to the
Iraqi Parliament are yet to be scheduled.
Background
The
2021 Iraqi parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 10 October 2021. The elections decide the 329 members of the Council of Representatives who will in turn elect the Iraqi president and confirm the prime minister. 25 million voters are eligible to take ...
resulted in
violent clashes in Baghdad as well as a
political crisis of eleven months. On 3 August 2022,
Muqtada al-Sadr called for snap elections.
Electoral system
The electoral system was changed following the
last parliamentary elections amid the
2019–2021 Iraqi protests
The 2019–2021 Iraqi protests were a series of protests in Iraq consisting of demonstrations, marches, sit-ins and civil disobedience. It started on 1October 2019, a date which was set by civil activists on social media, spreading mainly over ...
. Previously conducted under
proportional representation calculated using the
Webster/Sainte-Laguë method with the governorates as constituencies, the 2021 elections were conducted under
single non-transferable vote
Single non-transferable vote or SNTV is an electoral system used to elect multiple winners. It is a generalization of first-past-the-post, applied to multi-member districts with each voter casting just one vote. Unlike FPTP, which is a single-winn ...
in 83 multi-member constituencies. The distribution of the number of electoral districts in each governorate relies on the number of quota seats for women multiplied by 3 or 5 seats for the electoral district depending on the governate's population size. One-quarter of total seats are reserved for women in the constituencies, while nine are reserved for minorities (5 for
Christians and 1 each for
Yazidis,
Shabaks,
Mandaeans and
Feyli Kurds).
References
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