{"id":179,"date":"2005-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-01T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:26:49","slug":"iraqi-assyrians-the-largest-voting-block-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/iraqi-assyrians-the-largest-voting-block-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Assyrians the Largest Voting Block in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

AINA) — The agency<\/A> in charge of the Iraqi expatriate vote officially released its results<\/A> today. 265,148 ballots were cast by the expatriate Iraqis from the 14 countries hosting the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Out-of-Country Voting (OCV) Program. The results have been electronically sent to the Independent Electoral Commission<\/A> of Iraq (IECI) in Baghdad.
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Of the 110 slates on the ballot, 5 received 4% or more, 2 received between 1 and 2%, and the rest were significantly below 1%. <\/P>
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The Assyrian Christian slate came in fourth with 7% of the vote. <\/P>
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World Results<\/SPAN>
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List
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The Shiite list (169)<\/TD>
\n		95318<\/TD>
\n		36.15%<\/TD><\/TR>
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The Kurdish list (130)<\/TD>
\n		78062<\/TD>
\n		29.60%<\/TD><\/TR>
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The Iraqi list (285), Iyad Allawi
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\n		24136<\/TD>
\n		9.15%<\/TD><\/TR>
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The Assyrian list (204), Christian
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\n		18538<\/TD>
\n		7.03%<\/TD><\/TR>
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The People’s Union list (324)<\/TD>
\n		11640<\/TD>
\n		4.41<\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/P>
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In the United States the Assyrians had the largest voting block as a group, with their combined results amounting to 34.01% of the votes. The Rafidain Assyrian list (204) came in second to the Shiite list.<\/P>
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US Results<\/SPAN>
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List
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The Shiite list (169)<\/TD>
\n		7694<\/TD>
\n		31.69%<\/TD><\/TR>
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The Assyrian list (204), Christian
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\n		6996<\/TD>
\n		28.82%<\/TD><\/TR>
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The Kurdish list (130)<\/TD>
\n		4113<\/TD>
\n		16.94%<\/TD><\/TR>
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The People’s Union list (324) <\/TD>
\n		1989<\/TD>
\n		8.19%<\/TD><\/TR>
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Assyrian National list (139)
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\n		1260<\/TD>
\n		5.19%<\/TD><\/TR>
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The Iraqi list (285), Iyad Allawi<\/TD>
\n		1028<\/TD>
\n		4.23%<\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/P>
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? 2005, Assyrian International News Agency.  All Rights Reserved<\/CENTER><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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