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    "date": "2025-11-11",
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    "kind": "legislative",
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    "timezone": "Asia/Baghdad",
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    "last_verified_at": "2026-10-03T12:00:00Z",
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    "provenance": {
      "from": "researcher agent 2026-10-03: IHEC final results page ihec.iq/final-results-2025/ and its PDFs (party votes per governorate, quota votes, 18 governorate seat sheets); IHEC Board decision No. 3 of extraordinary minutes 84 (17 Nov 2025); IHEC news item of 14 Dec 2025 on the Federal Supreme Court ratification; IHEC list of winners Final-names-2025.pdf; Constitution of Iraq arts. 93-94; IHEC news item of 11 Nov 2025 on polling hours",
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (Election Index); no vote counts copied (IHEC publishes no national votes per list)"
    },
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        "id": "council-of-representatives",
        "key": "iraq-legislative-2025/council-of-representatives",
        "name": "Council of Representatives",
        "body": "legislature-unicameral",
        "seats": 329,
        "seats_provisional": false,
        "polls_close_utc": "2025-11-11T15:00:00Z",
        "authority": {
          "id": "iq-ihec",
          "name": "Independent High Electoral Commission",
          "name_local": "المفوضية العليا المستقلة للانتخابات",
          "role": "electoral-commission",
          "homepage": "https://ihec.iq/",
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          "at": "2025-11-17T20:59:59Z",
          "source": "https://ihec.iq/41433/2025/11/"
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        "final_expected": {
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          "by": "2026-01-01T20:59:59Z",
          "confidence": "precedent",
          "basis": "No statutory deadline for IHEC's final results found (Law No. 12 of 2018 as amended by Law No. 4 of 2023 sets 24 hours only for the preliminary results, art. 16). Window from precedent: 2021 final results announced on 30 Nov 2021, day 51 after the 10 Oct 2021 vote (IHEC chair's speech, ihec.iq/16306/2021/12/); expectedBy is day 51 after 11 Nov 2025, the end of 1 Jan 2026 Baghdad time (UTC+3). Observed: IHEC Board of Commissioners decision No. (3) of extraordinary minutes (84) of 17/11/2025, on the memorandum headed '(اعلان النتائج النهائية)': 'الموافقة على اعلان النتائج النهائية لانتخابات مجلس النواب العراقي 2025 (للتصويت العام والخاص والنازحين)', 'وصدر القرار بالاجماع في يوم الاثنين الموافق 17/11/2025' (approval of announcing the final results; issued unanimously on Monday 17/11/2025), day 6. The decision gives only the date, so observedAt is the end of 17 Nov 2025 Baghdad time (23:59:59 +03:00); IHEC posted it at 19:49 local that day, and the final-results PDFs carry creation times of 19:01-19:37 local. These results were open to appeal to the Judicial Electoral Panel and bind only on the Federal Supreme Court's ratification (court-validation). Seat totals per list summed from IHEC's 17 Nov governorate sheets differ by one seat in Nineveh from IHEC's post-ratification list of winners (Final-names-2025.pdf, 15 Dec 2025): نينوى لاهلها (267) 3 seats on 17 Nov, 2 in the December list; الحسم الوطني (269) 2 then 3. The decision behind the change was not traced."
        },
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        "stages": [
          {
            "stage": "final-result",
            "from": null,
            "by": "2026-01-01T20:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "No statutory deadline for IHEC's final results found (Law No. 12 of 2018 as amended by Law No. 4 of 2023 sets 24 hours only for the preliminary results, art. 16). Window from precedent: 2021 final results announced on 30 Nov 2021, day 51 after the 10 Oct 2021 vote (IHEC chair's speech, ihec.iq/16306/2021/12/); expectedBy is day 51 after 11 Nov 2025, the end of 1 Jan 2026 Baghdad time (UTC+3). Observed: IHEC Board of Commissioners decision No. (3) of extraordinary minutes (84) of 17/11/2025, on the memorandum headed '(اعلان النتائج النهائية)': 'الموافقة على اعلان النتائج النهائية لانتخابات مجلس النواب العراقي 2025 (للتصويت العام والخاص والنازحين)', 'وصدر القرار بالاجماع في يوم الاثنين الموافق 17/11/2025' (approval of announcing the final results; issued unanimously on Monday 17/11/2025), day 6. The decision gives only the date, so observedAt is the end of 17 Nov 2025 Baghdad time (23:59:59 +03:00); IHEC posted it at 19:49 local that day, and the final-results PDFs carry creation times of 19:01-19:37 local. These results were open to appeal to the Judicial Electoral Panel and bind only on the Federal Supreme Court's ratification (court-validation). Seat totals per list summed from IHEC's 17 Nov governorate sheets differ by one seat in Nineveh from IHEC's post-ratification list of winners (Final-names-2025.pdf, 15 Dec 2025): نينوى لاهلها (267) 3 seats on 17 Nov, 2 in the December list; الحسم الوطني (269) 2 then 3. The decision behind the change was not traced.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": "2025-11-17T20:59:59Z",
            "observedSource": "https://ihec.iq/41433/2025/11/"
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            "stage": "court-validation",
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            "by": "2026-01-28T20:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "Constitution art. 93 Seventh: the Federal Supreme Court has jurisdiction over 'Ratifying the final results of the general elections for membership in the Council of Representatives'; art. 94: its decisions are final and binding. No deadline for the ratification found. Window from precedent: 2021 ratified on 27 Dec 2021, day 78 (Al Jazeera, 27 Dec 2021); expectedBy is day 78 after 11 Nov 2025, the end of 28 Jan 2026 Baghdad time. Observed: IHEC news item of 14 Dec 2025: 'صادقت المحكمة الاتحادية العليا اليوم الأحد، على النتائج النهائية لانتخابات مجلس النواب العراقي' and 'قررت المحكمة الاتحادية العليا المصادقة على النتائج النهائية للانتخابات العامة لعضوية مجلس النواب العراقي لعام 2025 للدورة الانتخابية السادسة' (the Court ratified the final results on Sunday 14 Dec 2025, day 33). The item gives only the date, so observedAt is the end of 14 Dec 2025 Baghdad time; IHEC posted it at 15:44 local. Decision number 235/federal/2025 is from press (Asharq Al-Awsat), not the Court's own record (iraqfsc.iq returned 403 on 3 Oct 2026).",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": "2025-12-14T20:59:59Z",
            "observedSource": "https://ihec.iq/41982/2025/12/"
          }
        ],
        "sources": [
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            "url": "https://ihec.iq/final-results-2025/",
            "role": "results-final",
            "kind": "race_results",
            "kindReason": "election code and results marker",
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            "origin": "race",
            "note": "IHEC page 'النتائج النهائية لانتخابات مجلس النواب العراقي 2025' (final results of the 2025 Council of Representatives election), a set of PDF downloads: 'اصوات الاحزاب الكلية' (total votes per coalition/party, listed per governorate), 'اصوات المرشحين الكلي' (votes per candidate), 'اصوات الكوتا' (votes for the 9 component/quota seats, 'أصوات المكونات على مستوى العراق'), and one sheet per governorate (18) titled 'توزيع الفائزين في انتخاب مجلس النواب العراقي 2025' with votes and seats per list, seat counts (general, quota, women) and that governorate's electorate, voters, valid and invalid votes and turnout. The PDFs carry creation dates of 17 Nov 2025 19:01-19:37 (+03:00). IHEC gives no national total of votes per list, nor national electorate, ballots or valid votes; only per-governorate figures. Footer: '© 2021 IHEC. All rights reserved.' Read 3 Oct 2026.",
            "check": null
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          {
            "url": "https://ihec.iq/results/",
            "role": "see-also",
            "kind": "results_index",
            "kindReason": "results section without an election code",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "IHEC results index ('نتائج الانتخابات'), linking the 2025 preliminary results page (ihec.iq/results-2025/), the final results page above and the post-ratification list of the 329 winners, https://ihec.iq/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Final-names-2025.pdf ('قائمة بالمرشحين الفائزين في انتخابات مجلس النواب العراقي2025', PDF created 15 Dec 2025 08:37 +03:00), as recorded in iraq-legislative-2029. Index page, not a results page for this election.",
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            "note": "IHEC Board of Commissioners decision No. (3) of extraordinary minutes (84), 17 Nov 2025 (image of the signed decision): approves announcing the final results of the 2025 Council of Representatives election (general and special voting and displaced persons). Read 3 Oct 2026.",
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          {
            "url": "https://ihec.iq/41982/2025/12/",
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            "kind": "other",
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            "resolvable": false,
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            "note": "IHEC news item of 14 Dec 2025, 'المحكمة الاتحادية العليا تصادق على النتائج النهائية لانتخابات مجلس النواب': the Federal Supreme Court ratified the final results that day under Constitution art. 93 Seventh. The Court's own site (iraqfsc.iq) returned 403 on 3 Oct 2026; press (Asharq Al-Awsat, aawsat.com/node/5219319) gives the decision as No. 235/federal/2025 of 14 Dec 2025, not checked against the Court's record.",
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            "note": "IHEC news item of 11 Nov 2025 (polling day): 'فتحت أبواب مراكز الاقتراع في الساعة السابعة صباحاً ويتم الاغلاق إلكترونيا في الساعة السادسة مساءً' (polling centres opened at 07:00 and close electronically at 18:00). pollsCloseUtc: 18:00 Baghdad time (UTC+3, no DST) = 15:00 UTC. Read 3 Oct 2026.",
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            "note": "Constitution of Iraq 2005 (English translation): art. 93 Seventh, the Federal Supreme Court ratifies the final results of the general elections for the Council of Representatives; art. 94, its decisions are final and binding. See iraq-legislative-2029 for the election law (Law No. 12 of 2018 as amended by Law No. 4 of 2023, Gazette No. 4718).",
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