The Kurdistan List (), also known as the Kurdistan Alliance or the Brotherhood List, was the name of the electoral coalition that ran in the Kurdistan Regional Government parliamentary elections in Iraqi Kurdistan in July 2009. The Kurdistan List represented a coalition of the two main ruling parties in Iraqi Kurdistan, namely the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. It is the successor of the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan.
The head of the Kurdistan List was the former deputy prime minister of Iraq, Dr. Barham Salih (PUK), who was later elected as the new prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan in September 2009. The Kurdistan List endorsed the incumbent and re-elected president of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani (KDP).
2010 Iraqi elections In the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary election there were 11 parties in the Kurdistani List, the largest ones were the: Kurdistan Democratic Party - led by Kurdish President Massoud Barzani Patriotic Union of Kurdistan- led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani Kurdistan Communist Party – Iraq - led by Kamal Shakir Islamic Movement of Kurdistan - led by Shaykh Uthman Abd-Aziz Kurdistan Toilers' Party - led by Qadir Aziz Turkmen Brotherhood Movement - led by Kalkhi Najmaddin Noureddin Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party
Seats GovernorateKurdistan Democratic PartyPatriotic Union of KurdistanTotal Kurdistan List Total Governorate SeatsDiyala 0 1 1 13Duhok 8 1 9 10Erbil 8 2 10 14Kirkuk 2 4 6 12Nineveh 6 2 8 31Sulaymaniyah 2 6 8 17Compensatory seats 0 1 1 7Total: 26 17 43 325
Votes GovernorateKurdistani List VotesPercentageTotal votes Babylon 1,167 0.21% 556,123Baghdad 19,732 0.93%2,129,557Duhok 332,951 76.23% 413,964Dhi Qar 334 0.06% 557,774Diyala 47,749 9.33% 469,087Erbil 458,403 67.02% 648,924Kirkuk 206,542 38.10% 472,453Muthanna 1,432 0.64%222,851Najaf 524 0.14%378,854Nineveh 239,109 20.52%1,013,635Qādisiyyah 805 0.23%353,086Saladin 21,776 4.82%451,409Sulaymaniyah 350,283 42.22%769,302Total: 1,681,714 14.37%10,813,216
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