Election
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The Sixth Parliamentary Election of Kurdistan: Results and Implications
Rostam Jabar Mustafa
Political geography examines all geographical factors that influence political decisions and changes, including the analysis and distribution of power among parties and lists participating in the electoral process. Parliament is a national institution that plays a vital role in strengthening the political process of the Kurdistan region and ensuring the rights and duties of its inhabitants the sixth term of Kurdistan Parliament represents a major change in the parliament's history regarding the electoral system, reduction in parliamentary seats, distribution of seats across electoral districts, and the reorganization of ethnic minority quotas. The election system changed from a single constituency to a multiple constituency system. Based on Kurdistan Region's provinces, parliamentary seats were divided into four electoral districts (Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Duhok, and Halabja). The number of parliamentary seats was reduced from 111 to 100, and the ethnic minority quota system was reorganized from 11 seats to 5 seats, distributed across the electoral districts. Since the first parliamentary election, voter turnout has consistently declined, from 87.4% in the first term to 59% in the fifth term - a decrease of 28.4%. However, voter turnout in this sixth parliamentary term increased to 72%, demonstrating Kurdistan Region citizens' renewed trust in this national institution. This is considered an important turning point for the Kurdistan Region, enabling parliament to become a decision-making center and a strong pillar of national security.
Volume 12 · Issue 3 · June 2025The Media Coverage of the 2021 Iraqi Council of Representatives Election in the Kurdish News Websites NRT and Rudaw as Case Studies
Hawkar Jazaa Hama Karim, Karzan Mohamed Ahmed
This paper is a scientific effort to research the handling of the Kurdish websites of the 2021 Iraqi Representatives Council Election. We look into their way of covering the news as the campaigns begun, the process, and the declaration of the results. The importance of this paper from a scientific and academic point is that it clarifies and simplifies the way the new age media handles elections, specifically in their behavioral patterns towards an important topic such as elections. Little has been written about this topic, as such more research is necessary to understand it from all its facets. And in the practical part, the paper tries to identify the way the new age media deals with elections. The results of this paper may be able to help the media better handle the importance of this topic so as to cover the process more responsibly and do their duty in a better way. The samples for this research are taken from NRT and Rudaw news agencies. All the news pertaining the are taken as examples. We attempt to explain and explore the news and its contents in a descriptive method. The most important results noted from this paper are: The sites taken as examples in the research covered many areas and different topics pertaining to the research. However, they also announced the results prior to the official statement by the Election Committee, as they had depended on data from biased individuals and/or their reporters. In some of their articles the sources have not been mentioned, which affects how well the reader may trust them.
Volume 9 · Issue 4 · September 2022The Analysis of Elections’ Result in the Both of Round in the Parliament (2013- 2018) of Kurdistan’s Region and the Changes in the form of Elections’ Result in the Both of Round
Safin Jalal Fatalla, Balen Faithalla Abdulla
The election is one of the important subject in the political of politics in general and in the geography of election in specific because there is two ways to receive the authority into philosophy of authority, one of them in the way of violence through attacker that it is cause to a terrible situation in the political, social and economy And another way is that the community is agree on the democracy and make a change in the authority, in a peace way and away from violence through election . In this research we analyze the geography to the result of elections in the round of fourth and fifth of Kurdistan’s parliament and make a distinguished in the result of both of round and we analyze those changes that happened and we will evaluate them. The investigation consist of three parts, the first part is the analysis of geography to the election of fourth round of Kurdistan’s parliament ,itself consist of three subject. The first subject is the list of competition of works to general chair and second is the list of competition to final chair The second part is the analysis of geography to elections’ result of fifth round of Kurdistan’s parliament of (2018) The first subject is the list of agents to general chair and second subject is the list competitions to final chairs , third part is the changes from the form of results in both round of elections (2013-2018) in the parliament of Kurdistan ‘s region.