Iraq’s Kurdistan parliament. Photo/Grpaph: Ekurd.net

October 2, 2013 ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s party finished third behind an opposition movement in the autonomous Kurdish region’s parliamentary polls, shaking a decades-long duopoly on power, according to final results released Wednesday.

The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Committee had announced in a press conference held on Wednesday, October 02, 2013, in the capital Erbil, the final results of Kurdistan Parliamentary Elections for 2013:


1. Kurdistan Democratic Party gets 38 seats

2. Change Movement (Gorran) gets 24 seats

3. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan gets 18 seats

4. The Islamic Union of Kurdistan sets 10 seats

5. Islamic Brotherhood in Kurdistan gets 6 seats

6. The Islamic Movement gets 1 seat

7. Communist party (Freedom List) gets 1 seat

8. Kurdistan Communist Party gets 1 seat

9. The Minorities in Kurdistan get 5 seats for Turkmen, 5 seats for Christians and 1 seat for Armen

Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and Kurdish region president Massoud Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party have long dominated politics in the three-province region in northern Iraq.

As no party won an absolute majority in the 111-member Kurdish legislature, a coalition government will be formed.

Nawshirwan Mustafa’s Change Movement (Gorran), campaigned against alleged government corruption and perceived heavy-handedness by private security forces linked to the KDP and PUK.

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