The election in numbers

20: the number of elections, including ballots for the national assembly, a Kurdish national assembly and 18 district councils…

20: the number of elections, including ballots for the national assembly, a Kurdish national assembly and 18 district councils

5,000: the number of polling centres across the country

111: the number of lists of political parties standing in the national election.

20: the number of electoral officials in Baghdad

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A2: the size the ballot paper needed to contain the many names

7,785: the number of candidates running for office on the lists

85: the percentage of Iraqis who say they want to vote, according to local opinion polls

0: the number of mainstream Sunni parties standing in the election, who say it is too dangerous to vote in many areas 50: the percentage of Iraqis election officials believe will actually turn out on voting day, although the number may be considerably lower in Sunni areas, where the insurgency rages, and higher in Shia areas

10,000: the number of political party and Iraqi NGOs registered to observe the election in the absence of any foreign observers

275: the number of members of a new National Assembly who will draw up a new constitution