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Kurdistan Region presidential election, 2009

← 1992 25 July 2009
 
Nominee Massoud Barzani Kamal Mirawdily
Party Kurdistani List Independent
Popular vote 1,266,397 460,323
Percentage 69.6% 25.3%

President before election

Massoud Barzani
KDP

Elected President

Massoud Barzani
KDP

Territories controlled by the KRG

The Kurdistan Region presidential elections of 2009 took place on 25 July 2009, coinciding with the 2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Kurdistan Region were eligible to vote in the parliamentary and presidential elections. It is the first time that the President of Kurdistan Region was chosen directly through popular votes.[1] People currently living outside Kurdistan Region were not allowed to vote.[2]

Like the parliamentary elections, campaigning for the elections officially started on 22 June 2009 and was to be stopped 48 hours before voting starts.[3] The elections were held with 84 registration centers and 5,403 polling stations and 5 polling stations in Baghdad. Below are the candidates listed with their lot number.

Halow Ibrahim Ahmed was seen as the leading challenger to the incumbent.[4]

Results[edit]

A total of 1,819,652 people, approximately 80% of the registered voters, participated in the election [1]

Initial reports gave Barzani 70 percent of the vote.[5]

Candidate Popular votes Percentage
Massoud Barzani 1,266,397 69.6
Kamal Mirawdily 460,323 25.3
Halow Ibrahim Ahmed 63,377 3.5
Ahmed Mohammed Rasul 18,890 1.4
Hussein Garmiyani 10,665 0.6
Total 1,819,652 [2] 100%

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • ^ http://pukmedia.com/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11750&Itemid=52%7CCampaigns Archived 2009-08-04 at the Wayback Machine of the parliamentary elections in Kurdistan region
  • ^ "Leading Challenger Emerges in Iraqi Kurdistan Vote".
  • ^ AFP: Opposition set to break Iraqi Kurd stranglehold

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