Election Results
In the Iraqi legislative election, December 2005, the ITF list (#630) polled 76,434 votes, or 0.7% nationwide, according to the uncertified published results. The overwhelming majority of those votes were cast in Kirkuk Province, where the ITF won more than 10% of the total. Most of the rest of the ITF's votes were in Salah ad Din province. According to the full official results of that election, the ITF is entitled to only one seat in the permanent National Assembly. The party has been funded deeply by the Turkish administration and military.
In the aftermath of the first Iraqi parliamentary election in 2005, the ITF lodged a number of formal complaints to the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq alleging vote fraud on the part of the Kurdish parties and protesting the Commission's decision to allow Kurdish internally displaced persons and refugees to vote in the places from which they had been expelled under Saddam Hussein. In the election, they received just over 90,000 votes, or 1.1% of votes cast, earning them three seats in the trasitional National Assembly of Iraq.
In the 2009 Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election, the ITF polled just 7,077 votes, or 0.38% of the popular vote, winning 1 seat.
In the 2010 Iraqi national elections, the ITF candidate in the Turkmen stronghold of Kirkuk, Arshad al-Salihi, won 59,732 votes as a part of Iyad Allawi's Iraqiya List. This was second only to Khalid Shwani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, who won 68,522 votes. This is an increadible number since the turkmens historically made up roughly 10-20% of the population and as such, much of the support for the turkmen candidate must be from the arab supporters.
Read more about this topic: Iraqi Turkmen Front
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