ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Iraq recorded a turnout rate of 55 percent in its 2025 parliamentary elections on Tuesday, marking an uptick compared to the country’s record low turnout of around 43 percent in the 2021 voting.

Iraq concluded its sixth parliamentary elections on Tuesday evening at 6:00 pm, in which nearly 7,750 candidates competed for the Iraqi legislature’s 329 seats.

The vote saw a turnout rate of around 55 percent, with 99.7 percent of all ballots opened, said Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC).

Of a total of some 20 million eligible voters, 12,003,143 people participated in the vote, including Sunday’s early vote, the commission added.

The electoral body announced earlier in the day that the vote’s preliminary results will be announced 24 hours after the election ends. It is currently in the process of manually tallying the votes cast in over 7,000 ballot boxes across the country.

Iraq’s Tuesday general elections followed an early polling of the country’s security forces and special populations on Sunday.

Over 1.3 million members of the security institutions and over 26,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) were eligible for early polling. The early elections had a voter turnout of 82 percent.

More than 185,000 security personnel have been assigned to secure the polling stations across Iraq for the parliamentary elections.