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The next elections to the Iraqi Parliament are yet to be scheduled.
The 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election resulted in violent clashes in Baghdad as well as a political crisis of eleven months.[1] On 3 August 2022, Muqtada al-Sadr called for snap elections.[2]
The electoral system was changed following the 2018 parliamentary elections amid the protests from 2019 to 2021. Previously parliamentary elections had been held using proportional representation, with seats allocated using the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method, using governorates as constituencies. As a result, the 2021 parliamentary elections were held using single non-transferable vote in 83 multi-member constituencies.[3] The distribution of electoral districts in each governorate relies on the number of quota seats for women multiplied by three or five seats for the electoral district depending on the governate's population. A quarter of the total seats are reserved for women in the constituencies, while nine are reserved for minorities (five for Christians and one each for Yazidis, Shabaks, Mandaeans and Feyli Kurds).[4][5]