The Kurdistan List also known as the Kurdistan Alliance or the Brotherhood List, is the name of the electoral coalition that ran in the Kurdistan Regional Government

Kurdistan Regional Government

The Kurdistan Regional Government , , is the official ruling body of the predominantly Kurds-populated Kurdistan Region in Northern Iraq...

 parliamentary elections in Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan or Kurdistan Region is an autonomous region of Iraq. It borders Iran to the east, Turkey to the north, Syria to the west and the rest of Iraq to the south. The regional capital is Arbil, known in Kurdish as Hewlêr...

 in July 2009. The Kurdistan List represented a coalition of the two main ruling parties in Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan or Kurdistan Region is an autonomous region of Iraq. It borders Iran to the east, Turkey to the north, Syria to the west and the rest of Iraq to the south. The regional capital is Arbil, known in Kurdish as Hewlêr...

, namely the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa...

. It is the successor of the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan

Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan

The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan sometimes referred to simply as the Kurdistan Alliance is the name of the electoral coalition first presented as a united Kurdish list in the January 2005 election in Iraq. Elections were held simultaneously for the assembly of the Kurdistan Regional...

.

The head of the Kurdistan List was the former deputy prime minister of Iraq, Dr. Barham Salih

Barham Salih

Barham Ahmad Salih is an Iraqi Kurdish politician. He is currently the prime minister of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He is married and has a daughter who attended Princeton University and a son who graduated from King's Academy in Madaba, Jordan and currently attends Columbia.-Early life:Dr....

 (PUK), who was later elected as the new prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan or Kurdistan Region is an autonomous region of Iraq. It borders Iran to the east, Turkey to the north, Syria to the west and the rest of Iraq to the south. The regional capital is Arbil, known in Kurdish as Hewlêr...

 in September 2009. The Kurdistan List endorsed the incumbent and re-elected president of South Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani

Massoud Barzani

Massoud Barzani is the current President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Barzani was born in Mahabad, Iran, during the rule of the Republic of Mahabad...

 (KDP).

2010 Iraqi elections

In the Iraqi parliamentary election, 2010 there were 11 parties in the Kurdistani List, the largest ones were the:

• Kurdistan Democratic Party - led by Kurdish President Massoud Barzani
  Massoud Barzani
  Massoud Barzani is the current President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Barzani was born in Mahabad, Iran, during the rule of the Republic of Mahabad...
  
  
• Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
  Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
  The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa...
  
  - led by Iraqi President
  President of Iraq
  The President of Iraq is the head of state of Iraq and "safeguards the commitment to the Constitution and the preservation of Iraq's independence, sovereignty, unity, the security of its territories in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution." The President is elected by the Council of...
  
   Jalal Talabani
  Jalal Talabani
  Jalal Talabani is the sixth and current President of Iraq, a leading Kurdish politician. He is the first non-Arab president of Iraq, although Abdul Kareem Qasim was half Kurdish....
  
  
• Kurdistan Communist Party – Iraq - led by Kamal Shakir
• Islamic Movement of Kurdistan
  Islamic Movement of Kurdistan
  The Islamic Movement of Kurdistan is an Islamist group founded in 1979 by Shaykh Uthman Abd-Aziz and several other Sunni mullahs who were all part of the non-political "Union of Religious Scholars" . The party's main support comes from in and around that town of Halabjah...
  
   - led by Shaykh Uthman Abd-Aziz
• Kurdistan Toilers' Party
  Kurdistan Toilers' Party
  Kurdistan Toilers' Party founded according to the party in 1985, is a splinter from the Kurdistan Socialist Party, and later a member of the Iraqi Kurdistan Front. Led by Khalid Zangana and now by Qadir Aziz....
  
   - led by Qadir Aziz
• Turkmen Brotherhood Movement - led by Kalkhi Najmaddin Noureddin
• Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party

Seats

Governorate	Kurdistan Democratic Party	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	Total Kurdistan List	Total Governorate Seats
Diyala	0	1	1	13
Duhok	8	1	9	10
Hewler	8	2	10	14
Kerkuk	2	4	6	12
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...	6	2	8	31
Silemani	2	6	8	17
Compensatory seats	0	1	1	7
Total:	26	17	43	325

Votes

Governorate	Kurdistani List Votes	Percentage	Total Votes
Babil	1,167	0.21%	556,123
Baghdad	19,732	0.93%	2,129,557
Duhok	332,951	76.23%	413,964
Dhi Qar	334	0.06%	557,774
Diyala	47,749	9.33%	469,087
Hewler	458,403	67.02%	648,924
Kerkuk	206,542	38.10%	472,453
Muthanna	1,432	0.64%	222,851
Najaf	524	0.14%	378,854
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...	239,109	20.52%	1,013,635
Qadissiyah	805	0.23%	353,086
Salah ad-Din	21,776	4.82%	451,409
Silemani	350,283	42.22%	769,302
Total:	1,681,714 http://www.themajlis.org/projects/iraq-results	14.37%	10,813,216