Kurdistan Region special vote for parliamentary elections concludes in all provinces
Shafaq News/Voting in the special election for the Kurdistan Region's parliament concludedat 6 p.m. on Friday, with polling stations inside and outside the Regionclosing as scheduled.
By noon,turnout figures showed 77% participation in Duhok, 70% in Erbil, 67% inAl-Sulaymaniyah, and 64% in Halabja. The last estimated percentage ofparticipation in Kirkuk reached 50% by 3:30 p.m.
Earliertoday, Judge Omar Ahmed Mohammed, the head of the Board of Commissioners ofIraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), described the votingprocess for the Kurdistan Parliament’s sixth term as "smooth andorderly."
The specialvoting day, held exclusively for Peshmerga forces and internal securitypersonnel, began at 7 a.m. with 165 polling centers open across the KurdistanRegion..
A total of1,091 candidates, including men and women, are competing for 100 seats in theregional parliament, five of which are reserved for minority communities aspart of a quota system.
According tothe election law, at least 30 seats must be allocated to women.
TheKurdistan Region has 2,899,578 registered voters, of whom 215,960 were eligibleto participate in the special vote. The remaining 2,683,618 voters will casttheir ballots in the general election scheduled for Sunday.
