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.