2009 Diyala Governorate election

31 January 2009 (2009-01-31)
All 29 seats for the Diyala Governorate council
First party Second party   Leader Ayad al-Samarrai Saleh al-Mutlaq Party Tawafuq INDF Last election 14 0 Seats before 14 0 Seats won 9 6 Seat change 5 6 Popular vote 91,135 66,309 Percentage 21.2% 15.4% Swing 18.9% 15.4%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Barham Salih Ayad Allawi Party Kurdistani List INL Last election 7 0 Seats before 7 0 Seats won 6 3 Seat change 1 3 Popular vote 62,219 42,650 Percentage 14.5% 9.9% Swing 0.12% 9.9%
Governor of Diyala before election Raad Hameed al-Mula al-Tamimi ISCI Subsequent Governor Abdulnasir al-Muntasirbillah Tawafuq

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

Campaign

A Sunni Arab candidate from the National Reform Trend was killed near the disputed town of Mandali.^[1]

Results

Immediately after the election, the Iraqi National List and the Iraqi National Dialogue Front claimed victory in Diyala.^[2] The final results saw them both winning seats, but no part having an overall majority.

A month after the vote, 2000 supporters of ISCI protested at the results, saying internally displaced refugee supporters had been unable to vote, and a large number of their supporters had turned up to vote to find their names were not on the electoral roll.^[3]

In March, the INDF said they would form an alliance with the State of Law Coalition and the Iraqi Islamic Party allied with the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.^[4]

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Tawafuq	91,135	21.17	9	−5
	Hiwar	66,309	15.41	6	+6
	Kurdistan Alliance	62,219	14.46	6	−1
	Iraqi National List	42,650	9.91	3	+3
	State of Law Coalition	27,408	6.37	2	+2
	Diyala Coalition	25,068	5.82	2	+2
	National Reform Trend	20,140	4.68	1	+1
	Other parties	95,478	22.18	0	–
Total		430,407	100.00	29	−12
Source: Niqash,[5] Al Sumaria, New York Times

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