Shi'ite List Comes Top in Iraq Election Results
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An alliance of Shi'ite Islamist groups  won the most votes in Iraq's election, but the percentage it  received -- 47.6 percent -- was lower than many expected,  according to the final vote tally released on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD -- Catapulted by heavy turnout among Iraq's long-oppressed Shi'ite Muslim majority, an alliance of Shi'ite religious parties won nearly half the vote in the national elections and will probably capture a narrow majority of seats in the new parliament, according to a nationwide tally released yesterday.
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Iraq's main Shi'ite alliance, fresh  from winning landmark elections, gathered on Monday to choose a  candidate for prime minister and the allies it needs after  failing to win an absolute majority.
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A suicide car bomber killed at least 13  Shi'ites northeast of Baghdad and gunmen shot dead nine people  in a Shi'ite bakery in the capital in the latest sectarian  attacks following the Jan. 30 election.
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Iraq's main Shia Muslim coalition is ahead as counting continues in the landmark elections, officials say.
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A Shi'ite Islamist bloc won Iraq's  first election since Saddam Hussein's overthrow, sealing the  political resurgence of the long-oppressed majority but leaving  the restive Sunni Arab minority in the cold.
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WASHINGTON -- Leaders of Iraq's religious parties have emerged as the country's most popular politicians and would win the largest share of votes if an election were held today, while the US-backed government of interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is losing serious ground, according to a US-financed poll by the International Republican Institute.
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A coalition fielding 228 candidates and supported by Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric has been formed to compete in the January 30 national elections.
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Under the stewardship of the country's most powerful religious figure, Iraq's fractured Shiite Muslim majority has closed ranks and produced a unified list of candidates for the parliamentary elections set for Jan. 30.
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One of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite Muslim parties said on Saturday any delay to planned Jan. 30 elections would be a victory for insurgents trying to wreck the process.
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The Shi'ite alliance expected to win a commanding victory in Iraq's election will insist one of its members is appointed the country's next prime minister, a senior official in the alliance said on Saturday.
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Key players and parties who figure prominently in Iraq's first national election since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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The following coalitions are expected to do well in the Iraqi elections Sunday.
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All sides can claim partial victory in the Najaf crisis' resolution. Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has proven his power by securing a peace deal, and renegade Muqtada al-Sadr has escaped with his militia movement intact.
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NAJAF/KERBALA, Iraq  - Suicide car bombers struck  Iraq's two major Shi'ite holy cities, killing at least 44  people and wounding more than 100 on Sunday, six weeks before a  historic election.
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A coalition of Iraq's main two Kurdish  parties has moved into second place behind a Shi'ite Islamist  alliance in the vote count following the Jan. 30 elections,  partial results released Monday showed.
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One of Iraq&#39;s most powerful Shi&#39;ite Muslim parties said on Saturday any delay to planned Jan. 30 elections would be a victory for insurgents trying to wreck the process.