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Early Iraq Election Results Show Shi'ite Strength
December 19, 2005
Patient voting in a Baghdad hospital (file photo) (epa)
With nearly 90 percent of votes counted, United Iraqi Alliance has 58 percent of the vote in the Iraqi capital, Iraq's largest electoral district.
The Iraqi electoral commission said today the alliance received over 1.4 million votes.
The second most popular party was the Sunni-backed National Accordance Front, with 452,000 votes, followed by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National List, which garnered the support of some 327,000 voters.
(Agencies)