Final results of the 2018 elections in Iraq: no real winner

The results may be disappointing to Iraqi politicians, but it is a positive sign for the process. To form a government, they must work together to form a governing coalition, and the results show that there is no king maker.

Here is what we know about the requirements and about the results: available seats 329, post-election coalition with 165 seats or more will be tasked by the president to form a government. The final results are as follows:

Ranking	Political group	Number of Seats
1	Sa’iroun (Tahaluf, Sadr)	54 * *
2	Al-Fath (Tahaluf, Amiri)	47 * *
3	Al-Nasr (Itilaf, Abadi)	42 * * *
4	Dawlat al-Qanun (Itilaf, Maliki)	26 * *
5	Hizb Dimuqrati Kurdistani	25 * *
6	Al-Wataniya (Itilaf, Allawi)	21 *
7	Al-Hikma (Tayyar, al-Hakim)	20 * * *
	Other smaller parties	94 *5, *3
	Total	329

The block with the largest number of seats is not guaranteed constitutional right to form the government, unless the block secures 165 seats. Like last round of elections, no single pre-election coalition had secured a majority. Now leaders of the various coalitions must enter into negotiations to form post-elections super-coalitions that consists of at least 165 seats. Since Sadr seems to have a veto on Amiri and Maliki, he must be prepared to accommodate all the other major pre-elections coalitions to form the governing coalition (see green * asterisks). The winner of the second largest number of seats, Amiri’s, has almost a similar path to forming the governing coalition (See red * asterisks). It must be noted that, Shia led pre-elections coalitions can form a government on their own with 189 seats (See *).