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IHEC: 32.34% of ballots sorted across Iraq as of yet

Sulaimaniyah, Mar. 14 (AKnews) – After the Iraqi legislative poll took place in Iraq on March 7, now the process of sorting and counting the ballot papers are going on across the country.
 
Head of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC)'s Popular Relations Office Abdurrahman Khalifa the process of sorting the ballot papers of the Iraqi parliamentary election is now going on and up till now 32.34% of ballot papers are sorted across Iraq.
 
According to Khalifa the rate of sorted votes in the Iraqi provinces are as such: Baghdad 20.35%, Dahuk 58.13%, Erbil 31.8%, Sulaimaniyah 21.28%, Mosul 18.16%, Kirkuk 58.74%, Diyala 18.21%, Anbar 69.78%, Babel 36.8%, Karbala 30.21%, Wasit 13.35%, Salahaddin 19.63%, Najaf 35.90%, Qadisiyah 13.54%, Muthanna 23.39%, Dhiqar 44.66%, Maysan 24.38%, and 17.18% of ballot papers are sorted in Basra.
 
Iraq Vote started on, March 7 Sunday. 19 million people in 18 Iraqi provinces were entitled to elect 325 Iraqi parliament members, 82 of them would be women. One million and 900 thousand voters were to cast ballots in 16 countries outside Iraq.
 
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