List of the Martyr al-Mehraab and the Independent Forces, , commonly known as the al-Mehraab Martyr List was a Shi'a Islamist, Iraq

Iraq

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i political coalition formed for the Iraqi governorate elections, 2009 by the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.

It was the largest party in the Council of Representatives of Iraq and won the most seats and votes in the Iraqi elections of 2006. The list won control of 8 out of Iraq's 18 governorates

Governorates of Iraq

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, including 6 of the country's 9 Shi'a governorates. The Vice President

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, Adel Abd al-Mahdi, and many Minister

Minister (government)

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ial positions in the Iraqi Government

Government of Iraq from 2006

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 were from this party. The party chairman, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, was the leader of Iraq's ruling United Iraqi Alliance

United Iraqi Alliance

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.

The name is a reference to Ayatollah

Ayatollah

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 Seyyed Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim (Shahid al-Mehraab), the founder of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq

Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq

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 (ISCI), who led the party until his assassination in the 2003 Imam Ali Mosque bombing

Imam Ali Mosque bombing

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. During the 2009 elections, Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim's brother Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim led the Supreme Council.

Alliance

The list included the following parties:

• Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) - led by Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim
• Badr Organisation - led by Hadi al-Amiri
  Hadi Al-Amiri
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• Hezbollah Movement in Iraq
  Hezbollah Movement in Iraq
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   - led by Hassan al-Sari
  Hassan al-Sari
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• Sayyid al-Shuhada Movement - led by Daghir al-Musawi
• The Independent Society for the Sake of Iraq -
• Several independent candidates, mainly from Shi'a parties

Performance

Lists belonging to the Supreme Council dominated the Iraqi governorate elections in 2005, however during the 2009 governorate elections the al-Mehraab Martyr List, performed below what they had expected, winning only 6.6% of vote and 52 out of 440 seats. They did however still manage to come a distant second after Nouri al-Maliki

Nouri al-Maliki

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's State of Law Coalition

State of Law Coalition

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Governorate	Percentage	Seats Won	Total Seats
al-Anbar	-	0	29
Babil	8.2%	5	30
Baghdad	5.4%	3	57
Basra	11.6%	5	35
Dhi Qar	11.1%	5	31
Diyala	-	0	29
Karbala	6.4%	4	27
Maysan	15.2%	7	27
al-Muthanna	9.3%	5	26
Najaf	14.8%	7	28
Ninawa Ninawa Governorate Ninawa is a governorate in northern Iraq, and the Arabic name for the biblical city of Nineveh in Assyria. It has an area of and an estimated population of 2,453,000 people in 2003. Its chief city and provincial capital is Mosul, which lies across the Tigris river from the ruins of ancient...	1.9%	0	37
al-Qadisiyyah	11.7%	4	28
Salah ad-Din	2.9%	1	28
Wassit	10.0%	6	28
Total:	6.6%	52	440