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Iraq announced on Tuesday the results of the provincial council elections after counting 90 percent of the ballots. The Taqadum party of ousted parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi won the most votes in the capital Baghdad. The State of Law coalition of former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki came second. Some 6 million Iraqis out of 23 million eligible voters took part in the elections.
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Parties that make up Iraq's Shi'ite ruling alliance together took the single-largest bloc of votes in Baghdad and most of the country's southern provinces in provincial council elections, a Reuters tally of preliminary results showed. The results from the Independent High Electoral Commission, which included only raw votes and not the final seat allocation, show three electoral lists backed by the ruling Shi'ite Coordination Framework (CF) leading in most of the provinces. They include a list backed by former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki; a list led by Hadi Al-Amiri's Badr Organization that began as a Shi'ite paramilitary, and other Iran-backed factions; and a list including cleric Ammar al-Hakim and former Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi.