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On March 26, the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), announced elections results for the Republic of Iraq’s March 7, 2010, national elections for its Council of Representatives.

The Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), which oversees elections, announced that the National Iraqi Alliance, headed by Ayad Allawi won a plurality of 91 seats in the parliament. That was closely followed by 89 seats won by the State of Law Party, headed by Nouri Kamal al-Maliki. The Kurdistani Alliance captured 43 seats and the Iraqi National Alliance gained 70 seats.

Of the remaining 32 seats, 16 are “compensatory” seats allocated to specific national minorities - five for Iraqi Christians and one each for Yazidis, Shabak and Mandaeans.

The IHEC said that the vote had been free of widespread fraud and that it would not conduct a recount. Commission members said the panel had investigated hundreds of allegations of fraud, but had found none that would significantly change Friday’s results.

Ad Melkert, the top United Nations representative in Iraq, called the vote “credible,” and added, “We have not found evidence of systematic failure or fraud of widespread nature.”

United States Ambassador Christopher R. Hill and Gen. Ray Odierno, the top American military commander in Iraq, praised “the overall integrity of the election” and called on political parties to “refrain from inflammatory rhetoric or action.”

Candidates have until June to win over candidates from other alliances to establish an absolute majority of 163 of the 325 seats in the parliament. The candidate with the first opportunity to put together a government has an enormous negotiating advantage, because he has the first 30 days to try to find a ruling coalition.