Editing Elections in Iraq (section)

===2013 elections statistics===
Source:<ref name="especialview.2013.04.21">[http://especialview.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/iraq-2013-elections-turnout/ "Iraq 2013 Elections Numbers & Turnout,"] Posted by H Al Researcher, especialview.wordpress.com (21 April 2013).</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=anonymous wordpress|date=February 2015}}

*Overall turnout: 51% (Similar to turnout in 2009 Elections)<ref name="especialview.2013.04.21"/>
*Number of registered eligible voters: Approx. 13,800,000 (Including 14,000 prisoners, 55,000 hospital patients and 53,000 displaced Iraqis eligible to vote).
*Number of voters turned out: 6,400,777 voters
*Elections are held: 12 provinces (out of 18 provinces).
::Four provinces are part of the semi-autonomous region Kurdistan with their Elections in September 2013, two provinces (Anbar, Nineveh) requested to postpone their elections due to security reasons.<ref name="especialview.2013.04.21"/>

*No. of seats contested: 378 seats in Province Councils (Local Government).
*Number of candidates: 8138
*Female candidates: 2205
*Male candidates:  5933

This is the sixth voting exercise by Iraqis in 10 years:
*2004 National Assembly Elections
*2005 Constitution Referendum
*2005 Parliamentary Elections
*2009 Provincial Councils
*2010 Parliamentary elections
*2013 Provincial Council (Saturday 20 April)
*Number of parties and alliances competing: 256 parties and 50 political alliances
*International independent observers (non-Iraqi): 350
*Local independent observers: 6,000 
*Political parties’ observers (political entity representatives): 267,388
*Polling stations: 5,370 (5,178)¹
*Ballot boxes: 32,445 (32,201)² election ballot box
::Including polling stations in prisons and hospitals.
*Polling stations opening time: 07:00 to 17:00 (Baghdad Time)
*IHEC Help Centre Freephone: 2800 calls received from voters. 
*Local Help Centres set up by IHEC: 12 (one in each province).
*IHEC staff (including reserve staff): 180,000<ref name="especialview.2013.04.21"/>
::100% of staff in this election were Iraqis
*Local journalists and media: 2,256 
*International journalists: 187 <ref name="especialview.2013.04.21"/>