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2018 Iraqi presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Iraq on 2 October 2018 to elect the President of Iraq for a four-year term via indirect suffrage by the Council of Representatives. The result was a win for Barham Salih, who received 219 votes. The position is largely ceremonial, with Iraq being a parliamentary system.

There were 31 candidates for the election, with only seven being approved to run.

Candidate	Party	First round	Second round
	Barham Salih	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	165	58.72	219	90.87
	Fuad Hussein	Kurdistan Democratic Party	89	31.67	22	9.13
	Sarwa Abdel Wahid	Independent	18	6.41
	Abbas Mohammed Nouri		4	1.42
	Nawar Saad Al-Mulla		2	0.71
	Munqith Abdul Latif Al-Saffa		2	0.71
	Thaer Ghanem		1	0.36
Total	281	100.00	241	100.00

281	93.05	241	88.60
13	4.30	24	8.82
8	2.65	7	2.57
302	100.00	272	100.00
329	91.79	329	82.67
Source: Parliament of Iraq

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