Reuters reports that Iraq's electoral commission certified the results of the country's January 30 elections. The United Iraqi Alliance was allocated 140 seats giving them a slim majority in the 275-seat National Assembly.
A combined Kurdish bloc was allocated 75 seats and the list led by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi won 40 seats, the Electoral Commission said.
Because a number of Parties which failed to muster enough votes to gain any seats, those parties that were elected to parliament have a larger share of seats than their share of the vote.
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