ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – More than 142,000 people have applied to be poll officials across Iraq, as the country’s November parliamentary elections draw closer, according to a chart published by Iraqi state media on Saturday.

According to the chart, Baghdad’s Karkh and Rusafa administration’s combine for over 30,000 applications, the highest in the diagram, which breaks the figure down by province. 

Baghdad is followed by Basra’s 17,021 and Nineveh’s 12,895, while Muthanna, Duhok, and Erbil have the lowest rates of application respectively. 

Iraq is set to hold parliamentary elections on November 11, with 118 parties and 25 alliances having “expressed their desire to participate,” according to an official tally by the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC).

Erbil’s 3,754, the third lowest figure, marks an outlier in the figures as one of the most populated cities in Iraq, showing a disinterest by its population to supervise ballots compared to other Iraqi provinces, amid ongoing disputes between Erbil and Baghdad that has left the Kurdistan Region’s civil servants without pay from Baghdad.

Of 142,534 applicants, only 33,300 are women according to the chart, translating to around 23 percent across Iraq. 

Erbil and Sulaimani record the highest rate of female participation with 43 percent each, while Anbar and Salahadin see the lowest percentage of female applicants at 10 and 12.4 percent respectively. 

Of the total number, more than 90,000 are government employees, while college graduates exceed 51,000 applicants. 

The upcoming November elections will establish the sixth term of the Iraqi legislature, with over 29 million people eligible to cast a ballot.