The Kurdistan Region Governorate Council elections of 2005 were held on 31 January 2005, to coincide with the Iraqi legislative elections of January 2005 and the Kurdistan Region legislative elections of January 2005. The elections were held to choose 41 council members for each of the three governorates of Kurdistan Region, that is Dahuk, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah governorates. During the election, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) won a plurality of the votes, however, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) won a plurality of the council seats.
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Aggregate 123 seats to the three Kurdistan Region governorates councils | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results
editAll governorates
edit| Party | Votes | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | % | |||
| Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) | 765,544 | 43.43% | 48 | |
| Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) | 741,483 | 42.07% | 61 | |
| Kurdistan Islamic Union | 133,206 | 7.56% | 10 | |
| other parties | 122,349 | 6.94% | 4 | |
| Total | 1,762,582 | 100% | 123 | |
| invalid ballots | 35,084 | (1.95%) | ||
| Party | Votes | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | % | |||
| Democratic Voice of Kurdistan List (KDP) | 347,772 | 53.67% | 23 | |
| Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) | 244,343 | 37.71% | 16 | |
| Kurdistan Islamic Union | 22,523 | 3.48% | 1 | |
| Kurdistan Islamic Group | 18,781 | 2.90% | 1 | |
| other parties | 14,575 | 2.24% | 0 | |
| Total | 647,994 | 100% | 41 | |
| invalid ballots | 16,622 | |||
| Party | Votes | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | % | |||
| Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) | 302,133 | 78.83% | 33 | |
| Kurdistan Islamic Union | 35,675 | 9.31% | 4 | |
| Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) | 35,483 | 9.26% | 4 | |
| other parties | 9,974 | 2.60% | 0 | |
| Total | 383,265 | 100% | 41 | |
| invalid ballots | 5,273 | |||
| Party | Votes | Seats | ||
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| Total | % | |||
| Patriot Union of Kurdistan (PUK) | 485,718 | 66.42% | 28 | |
| Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq (KDP) | 91,578 | 12.52% | 5 | |
| Kurdistan Islamic Union | 75,008 | 10.26% | 5 | |
| Kurdistan Islamic Group | 53,088 | 7.26% | 3 | |
| Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq | 8,192 | 1.12% | 0 | |
| other parties | 17,739 | 3.43% | 0 | |
| Total | 731,323 | 100% | 41 | |
| invalid ballots | 13,189 | |||
Source: Washington Institute: Provincial Politics in Iraq Archived 10 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 15–16