First, for those who are looking for the last update on the election results, IHEC-Arabic page updates its database daily and Google Translate works on the page (and each province) very good (several attempts required, very heavy traffic).
Despite that the Sadrists dominated INA Coalition results, Muqtada Al-Sadr should also start to worry, because half of the votes (about 1 million) in his stronghold Sadr-City went to Maliki.
Maliki sent his office-manager in a secret mission to visit Iran to discuss his chances to form a new government. That is revealed by many newspapers including Azzaman saying that “Tariq Najim” went in a shuttle-like travels through Arab countries to hide the traces of his secret visit to Tehran.
Embarrassing results for some key political figures and blocs leaders to access a seat in the parliament, such as the planning Minister Ali Baban, Maliki’s political adviser Sami Al-Askari, Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, former parliament speaker, Al-Sharif Ali Bin Al Hussein sponsor a constitutional monarchy, and Maliki’s media adviser Majid Yasin. More names:
INA
Ali Al-Lami — Head of the Justice and Accountability Commission — 215 votes.
Mowaffak Al-Rubaie — former national security adviser and INA’s candidate — 286 votes.
Sheikh Jalal al-Saghir– INA leader and candidate in Kurdish province Duhok – 22 votes.
Sheikh Hamam Hamoudi – INA leader and candidate in Kurdish province Sulaimaniya — 35 votes.
SoL
Mahdi al-Hafez – 110 votes.
Izzat Shabandar — 98 votes.
The Defense Minister Abdul-Qader al-Obeidi — 126 votes.
Iraqiya
Adnan Pachachi,-168 votes.
It is expected that the system will allow to reward the failed candidates with the compensation seats, but with the new twist inside INA, which the coalition will be dominated by the Sadrsists, chances of some Supreme Council’s figures are close to zero, especially Sheikh Al-Saghir and Sheikh Hamoudi who frequently criticized the Sadrists before.