Incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's bloc is leading in the 60 percent counted votes in Baghdad, the electoral commission said Monday.
File photo shows Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki casts his ballot at a polling station in Baghdad, capital of Iraq, on March 7, 2010. [Xinhua] |
According to the partial results from the electoral commission on Monday, Maliki's State of Law is leading with 518,530 votes, followed by the Iraqia List led by former prime minister Ayad Allawi with 453,028 votes, and the Iraqi National Alliance, led by Shiite religious parties, came third 323,975 votes.
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