Unity Alliance of Iraq

Unity Alliance of Iraq
Unity Alliance of Iraq
	Unity Alliance of Iraq logo
Leader	Nauaf Saud Zaid
Founded	2010
Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq:	4 / 325
	Politics of Iraq; Political parties; Elections

The Unity Alliance of Iraq (Arabic: ائتلاف وحدة العراق I’itilaf Wehdat al-Iraq) commonly known as Iraq's Unity, Iraqi Unity or Wassat is an Iraqi political coalition formed to contest the Iraqi parliamentary election, 2010. The coalition was formed by Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, the head of the Awakening movement, a Sunni tribal militia which was successful in significantly reducing the insurgency in al-Anbar Governorate and was then reformed into a political party, the Iraq Awakening and Independents National Alliance, which won the most seats in the Al Anbar governorate election, 2009.^[1]^[2] The Awakening Alliance joined forces with Iraq's Shi'a interior minister Jawad al-Bolani and his secular Iraqi Constitutional Party and Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai's Sunni Endowment. The list is led by Jawad al-Bolani.^[3]

2010 elections

During the 2010 elections the Iraq Unity List consisted of the following parties:^[4]

Iraqi Constitution Party - led by Jawad al-Bolani
Iraq Awakening and Independents National Alliance - led by Abu Risha
Charter Gathering - led by al-Samarrai
Republican Gathering - led by Saad al-Janabi
Independent candidates, including Kurdish politician Nehru Kasnazani, former minister of defence Saadoun al-Dulaimi and Anbar tribal leader Abu Azzam al-Tamimi.

Governorate	Percentage	Seats Won	Total Seats
Anbar			14
Babil			16
Baghdad			68
Basra			24
Dhi Qar			18
Diyala			13
Duhok			10
Erbil			14
Karbala			10
Kirkuk			12
Maysan			10
Muthanna			7
Najaf			12
Ninawa			31
Qādisiyyah			11
Salah ad-Din			12
Sulaymaniyah			17
Wassit			11
Compensatory seats			7
Minorities			8
Total:			325