{ "data": { "id": "iraq-legislative-2029", "country": "IQ", "country_name": "Iraq", "level": "national", "subdivision": null, "subdivision_name": null, "date": "2029-11-13", "date_status": "tentative", "kind": "legislative", "conditional": null, "timezone": "Asia/Baghdad", "status": "scheduled", "last_verified_at": "2026-10-02T12:00:00Z", "stale": false, "stale_reason": null, "provenance": { "from": "researcher agent 2026-10-02: Constitution of Iraq 2005 (arts. 54-56, 64, 70, 72, 73, 76, 93, 94; constituteproject.org); Official Gazette No. 4718 (Law No. 4 of 2023); ihec.iq results index, 2025 preliminary/final results pages and posts (WordPress records), 2021 posts; PUKmedia and Shafaq News on the 29 Dec 2025 first session", "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)" }, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/iraq-legislative-2029", "races": [ { "id": "council-of-representatives", "key": "iraq-legislative-2029/council-of-representatives", "name": "Council of Representatives", "body": "legislature-unicameral", "seats": 329, "seats_provisional": true, "polls_close_utc": "2029-11-13T15:00:00Z", "authority": { "id": "iq-ihec", "name": "Independent High Electoral Commission", "name_local": "المفوضية العليا المستقلة للانتخابات", "role": "electoral-commission", "homepage": "https://ihec.iq/", "results_index": "https://ihec.iq/results/", "open_data": null }, "status": "scheduled", "expected_stage_now": null, "observed": false, "final_observed": null, "final_expected": { "from": "2029-11-18T06:00:00Z", "by": "2030-01-05T20:59:59Z", "confidence": "precedent", "basis": "IHEC announces 'final results' after handling complaints and recounts; they are then open to appeal to the Judicial Electoral Panel and become binding only on ratification by the Federal Supreme Court (court-validation stage). No statutory deadline found. Precedent: 2025 final-results page (ihec.iq/final-results-2025/) created 17 Nov 2025 07:15 UTC, day 6; 2021 final results announced at a conference on 30 Nov 2021, day 51 after the 10 Oct 2021 vote (IHEC chair's speech, ihec.iq/16306/2021/12/), after manual recounts and Judicial Panel rulings that changed five seats. The opening (09:00 AST on day 5) is an ESTIMATED floor; the window closes at the end of 5 Jan 2030, Baghdad time, two days beyond the 2021 precedent. Not binding until ratified." }, "last_final": null, "previous": null, "stages": [ { "stage": "election-night", "from": "2029-11-13T15:00:00Z", "by": "2029-11-14T20:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "announced", "citation": "Law No. 12 of 2018 art. 16 as amended by Law No. 4 of 2023 art. 10 (Gazette No. 4718): IHEC must announce the results within 24 hours, for general and special voting. Polling hours are set by IHEC: 2025 07:00-18:00 Baghdad time (Rudaw, 11 Nov 2025); pollsCloseUtc assumes 18:00 AST (UTC+3; Iraq has no DST) = 15:00 UTC, an ESTIMATE until IHEC announces the hours. 2025 precedent: IHEC's preliminary-results page (ihec.iq/results-2025/, 'النتائج الاولية') was created 12 Nov 2025 14:00 UTC, 23 h after polls closed, and last modified 20:11 UTC that day (WordPress page record). In 2021 results for stations that did not transmit electronically were added in later tranches (IHEC statement, ihec.iq/15039/2021/10/). The window closes at the end of the day after polling, Baghdad time. Preliminary, not the final result.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null }, { "stage": "final-result", "from": "2029-11-18T06:00:00Z", "by": "2030-01-05T20:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "precedent", "citation": "IHEC announces 'final results' after handling complaints and recounts; they are then open to appeal to the Judicial Electoral Panel and become binding only on ratification by the Federal Supreme Court (court-validation stage). No statutory deadline found. Precedent: 2025 final-results page (ihec.iq/final-results-2025/) created 17 Nov 2025 07:15 UTC, day 6; 2021 final results announced at a conference on 30 Nov 2021, day 51 after the 10 Oct 2021 vote (IHEC chair's speech, ihec.iq/16306/2021/12/), after manual recounts and Judicial Panel rulings that changed five seats. The opening (09:00 AST on day 5) is an ESTIMATED floor; the window closes at the end of 5 Jan 2030, Baghdad time, two days beyond the 2021 precedent. Not binding until ratified.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null }, { "stage": "court-validation", "from": "2029-12-06T21:00:00Z", "by": "2030-02-02T20:59:59Z", "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. Precedent: 2025, IHEC sent the results to the Court on 8 Dec 2025 (PUKmedia) and the Court ratified them on Sun 14 Dec 2025, day 33 (IHEC, ihec.iq/41982/2025/12/); 2021, ratified 27 Dec 2021, day 78 (Al Jazeera, 27 Dec 2021; IHEC forwarded the final results to the Presidency on 28 Dec 2021, ihec.iq/16427/2021/12/). The opening (start of 7 Dec 2029, day 24, Baghdad time) is an ESTIMATE; the window closes at the end of 2 Feb 2030, Baghdad time, three days beyond the 2021 precedent.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null }, { "stage": "government", "from": "2029-12-06T21:00:00Z", "by": null, "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "estimate", "citation": "Constitution: the President convenes the new Council within 15 days of the ratification (arts. 54, 73 Fourth), which elects its Speaker at the first session (art. 55); a President of the Republic must be elected within 30 days of the first session (art. 72 Second(2), two-thirds majority, art. 70); the President charges the largest bloc's nominee within 15 days (art. 76 First), who has 30 days to name the cabinet (art. 76 Second) and needs an absolute majority (art. 76 Fourth). No government before the court ratification, so the floor is the court-validation opening (an estimate). The deadlines have slipped in practice.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://ihec.iq/results/", "role": "results-live", "kind": "results_index", "kindReason": "results section without an election code", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "IHEC results index ('نتائج الانتخابات'), not a page for this election. Checked 2 Oct 2026: it links earlier elections and the 2025 list of winners (wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Final-names-2025.pdf). In 2025 IHEC used two separate pages: preliminary results at ihec.iq/results-2025/ (created 12 Nov 2025 14:00 UTC) and final results at ihec.iq/final-results-2025/ (created 17 Nov 2025 07:15 UTC), each a set of PDF downloads per governorate. PREDICTED, not seen: a 2029 page on the same pattern; the URL cannot be known in advance.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Iraq_2005", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Constitution of Iraq 2005 (English translation). DATE (tentative, latest lawful date): art. 56 First 'The electoral term of the Council of Representatives shall be four calendar years, starting with its first session and ending with the conclusion of the fourth year'; art. 56 Second 'The new Council of Representatives shall be elected forty-five days before the conclusion of the preceding electoral term.' The sixth-term Council held its first session on Mon 29 Dec 2025 (presidential decree after the Federal Supreme Court's ratification of 14 Dec 2025; PUKmedia 29 Dec 2025, pukmedia.com/EN/Details/80042; Shafaq News 29 Dec 2025), so the term ends with 28 Dec 2029 and 45 days before that is Tue 13 Nov 2029, used here. Practice treats 45 days as a minimum: the fifth Council first sat on 9 Jan 2022 and the 2025 election was held on 11 Nov 2025, 58 days before its term ended. Art. 64: the Council may dissolve itself by an absolute majority, and a general election must then follow within 60 days; an early dissolution would bring the date forward.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4718.pdf", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Official Gazette (al-Waqa'i al-Iraqiya) No. 4718, 8 May 2023: Law No. 4 of 2023, Third Amendment to the Law on Elections of the Council of Representatives and Provincial and District Councils No. 12 of 2018. Art. 5 (amending art. 6): elections for the new terms 'قبل (45) خمسة واربعين يوماً من تاريخ انتهاء الدورات التي سبقتها' (45 days before the end of the preceding term), on one day across Iraq. Art. 10 (amending art. 16): IHEC uses electronic result-acceleration devices and 'تلتزم المفوضية بإعلان النتائج خلال (24) اربع وعشرين ساعة للتصويت العام والخاص'. Art. 22: special voting (security forces, displaced persons) 48 hours before general voting. In 2025 the Council of Ministers set the date (11 Nov 2025) on IHEC's proposal on 9 Apr 2025 (Iraq Business News, 9 Apr 2025); no decision for 2029 yet.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Iraqi_parliamentary_election", "role": "see-also", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "check": null }, { "url": "https://ihec.iq/", "role": "authority-home", "kind": "emb_home", "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question", "resolvable": false, "origin": "authority", "check": null } ], "page_activity": [], "government": { "earliestUtc": "2029-12-06T21:00:00Z", "precedentDays": [ 165, 184, 382 ], "note": "Days from polling to the cabinet's confidence vote: 2018 (12 May 2018 to 24 Oct 2018) 165 and 2021 (10 Oct 2021 to 27 Oct 2022) 382, from Wikipedia, not checked against parliament.iq; 2025 (11 Nov 2025 to 14 May 2026) 184, Al Jazeera and Peregraf 14 May 2026, 14 of 23 ministers approved that day. A government market needs a deadline beyond the longest precedent." }, "results": [], "live_count": null, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/iraq-legislative-2029#council-of-representatives" } ] }, "meta": { "dataset_version": "2026-10-02.be7d6f40", "built_at": "2026-10-02T15:42:24Z", "generated_at": "2026-10-02T18:13:29.241Z", "licence": "CC BY 4.0: credit \"Global Election Index (electionindex.org)\" and link to https://electionindex.org", "docs": "https://electionindex.org/docs" } }