List of political parties in Iraq - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This article lists political parties in Iraq.

Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

is a multi-party state. Political parties

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

are commonly grouped by ideology/ethnic affiliation and by the group with which they were listed on the ballot of the 2005 Iraqi National Assembly election.

Parliamentary alliances and parties

National Iraqi Alliance
- Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (al-Majlis al-alalith-thaura l-islamiyya fil-Iraq) - led by Ammar al-Hakim
  Ammar al-Hakim
  Sayyed Ammar al-Hakim is an Iraqi politician who leads the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, which was the largest party in Iraq's Council of Representatives from the 2003 Invasion of Iraq until the 2010 Iraqi elections....
- Sadrist Movement
  Sadrist Movement
  The Sadrist Movement is an Iraqi Islamist national movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr. The movement draws wide support from across Iraqi society and especially from the Shi'a poor in the country. The most important person in setting the goals and the philosophy of the movement was Grand Ayatollah...
  
  - led by Muqtada al-Sadr
  Muqtada al-Sadr
  Sayyid Muqtadā al-Ṣadr is an Iraqi Islamic political leader.Along with Ali al-Sistani and Ammar al-Hakim of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Sadr is one of the most influential religious and political figures in the country not holding any official title in the Iraqi government.-Titles:He is...
- Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organisation
  Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organisation
  The Islamic Dawa Party was formed in 1957 in the Iraqi holy City of Najaf. Their aim was to create a movement which would promote Islamic values and ethics, and which would become an instrument for political activeness. This came at a time when there was widespread ignorance about religion and...
  
  (Hizb al-Da'wa al-Islami Tendeem al-Iraq) - led by Kasim Muhammad Taqi al-Sahlani
  Kasim Muhammad Taqi al-Sahlani
  Kasim Muhammad Taqi al-Sahlani was an Iraqi politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of Iraq and was the head of the parliamentary bloc of the Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organisation, the fifth largest party within the ruling United Iraqi Alliance coalition...
- Islamic Dawa Party
  Islamic Dawa Party
  The Islamic Dawa Party or Islamic Call Party is a political party in Iraq. Dawa and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council are two of the main parties in the religious-Shiite United Iraqi Alliance, which won a plurality of seats in both the provisional January 2005 Iraqi election and the longer-term...
  
  (Hizb al-Da'wa al-Islamiyya) - led by Nouri al-Maliki
  Nouri al-Maliki
  Nouri Kamil Mohammed Hasan al-Maliki , also known as Jawad al-Maliki or Abu Esraa, is the Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Al-Maliki and his government succeeded the Iraqi Transitional Government. He is currently in his second term as Prime Minister...
- Tribes of Iraq Coalition
  Tribes of Iraq Coalition
  The Tribes of Iraq Coalition also known as the Anbar Salvation Council is an Iraqi political coalition formed to contest the Al Anbar governorate election, 2009 which won 2 out of 29 seats....
  
  - led by Hamid al-Hais
- Islamic Fayli Grouping in Iraq
  Islamic Fayli Grouping in Iraq
  The Islamic Fayli Grouping in Iraq or Iraqi Faili Islamic Gathering is one of two Iraqi political parties of Shi'a Fayli Kurds, the other being the Fayli Kurd Islamic Union...
  
  - led by Muqdad Al-Baghdadi
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...
- Kurdistan Democratic Party (Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê) - led by 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...
  
  (Yaketi Nishtimani Kurdistan) - led by 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 Islamic Union
  Kurdistan Islamic Union
  Kurdistan Islamic Union is an Islamist party in Iraqi Kurdistan is in principle independent and is directly responsible for policy matters. The party has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.-Events:...
  
  (Yekîtiya Islamiya Kurdistan)
- Movement for Change
  Movement for Change
  The Movement for Change also known as Change List or Gorran is a reformist Iraqi Kurdish political party under the leadership of Nawshirwan Mustafa, founded in 2009 it is the official opposition to the ruling two-party coalition of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan...
  
  (Bizutnaway Gorran) - led by Nawshirwan Mustafa
  Nawshirwan Mustafa
  Nawshirwan Mustafa in Sulaymaniyah Kurdistan is the chairman of the Movement for Change and the leader of the official opposition in the Kurdistan Region.- Early life :...
- Kurdistan Toilers’ Party (Parti Zahmatkeshan Kurdistan)
- Kurdistan Communist Party
  Kurdistan Communist Party
  The Kurdistan Communist Party/Iraq is a Kurdish political party, formed in 1993 when the Iraqi Communist Party branch in the Kurdish areas was formed into a separate party. The party is led by Kamal Shakir....
  
  (Partiya Komunîst Kurdistan)
- Assyrian Patriotic Party
  Assyrian Patriotic Party
  The Assyrian Patriotic Party is a political party in Iraq representing ethnic Assyrians that is led by Nimrud Baito. The party entered alliance with the Assyrian Democratic Movement in 1991, but eventually the ties between the two parties broke off...
Iraqi List
Iraqi List
The Iraqi List is a political party list in the Iraqi National Assembly election, 2005, consisting of mainly secular Shia. It is dominated by the Iraqi National Accord led by former exile and interim prime minister Iyad Allawi...

(al-Qayimaal Iraqia)
- Iraqi National Accord
  Iraqi National Accord
  The Iraqi National Accord known inside Iraq as Wifaq is an Iraqi political party founded by Iyad Allawi and Salah Omar Al-Ali in 1991. Al-Ali subsequently left the party after he realised the extent of Allawi's links to foreign intelligence agencies, mainly the C.I.A. and MI6.It was founded at the...
  
  - led by Iyad Allawi
  Iyad Allawi
  Ayad Allawi is an Iraqi politician, and was the interim Prime Minister of Iraq prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A prominent Iraqi political activist who lived in exile for almost 30 years, the politically secular Shia Muslim became a member of the Iraq Interim Governing Council, which...
The Iraqis
The Iraqis
The Iraqis is an Iraqi political party led by Vice-President Ghazi al-Yawar. It was the largest Sunni party to participate in the January 2005 Iraqi election. During the election campaign, al-Yawar was President of Iraq, a then largely symbolic but still prominent position. The party consists of...

- led by Ghazi al-Yawer
Iraqi Turkmen Front
Iraqi Turkmen Front
The Iraqi Turkmen Front is a political movement founded in 1995 which seeks to represent the Turkmen people of Iraq. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the ITF has contested control of Kirkuk and other areas of northern Iraq....

(Irak Türkmen Cephesi)) (same as Alliance of the Turkomen Front of Iraq?)
National Independent Cadres and Elites
National Independent Cadres and Elites
The National Independent Cadres and Elites is an Iraqi political party. It represents Shi'ites who do not support the approach of the United Iraqi Alliance. It is closely associated with the movement of Moqtada al-Sadr and the Mahdi Army...
People's Union
People's Union (Iraq)
The People's Union was the main communist party list in the January 2005 Iraqi legislative election. It is made up of the Iraqi Communist Party and independent candidate Hikmat Dawud Hakim. Before the election, it attempted to form a wider coalition among secularist groups, but this effort failed...

(Ittihad Al Shaab)
- Iraqi Communist Party
  Iraqi Communist Party
  Since its foundation in 1934, the Iraqi Communist Party has dominated the left in Iraqi politics. It played a fundamental role in shaping the political history of Iraq between its foundation and the 1970s. The Party was involved in many of the most important national uprisings and demonstrations...
  
  - led by Hamid Majid Mousa
  Hamid Majid Mousa
  Hamid Majid Mousa is the Secretary General of the Iraqi Communist Party. He was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and currently holds a seat on the National Assembly under Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National List. An economist and...
Islamic Kurdish Society - led by Ali Abd-al Aziz
Islamic Labour Movement in Iraq
Islamic Labour Movement in Iraq
The Islamic Labour Movement in Iraq is a political party in Iraq.At the legislative elections, 31 January 2005, the party won 0.5 % of the popular vote and 2 out of 275 seats....
National Democratic Party
National Democratic Party (Iraq)
The National Democratic Party is an Iraqi political party. The party was founded after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as several Iraqis, including Naseer al-Chaderchi, son of former leader Kamil al-Chaderchi, and Abdel Amir Abbud Rahima, sought to revive the historic National Democratic Party.The...

(Hizb al Dimuqratiyah al Wataniyah) - led by Samir al-Sumaidai
National Rafidain List
National Rafidain List
The National Rafidain List or Al Rafidain National List is the name of the list that is used by Assyrian Democratic Movement during the Iraqi elections, headed by Yunadam Kanna....
- Assyrian Democratic Movement
  Assyrian Democratic Movement
  The Assyrian Democratic Movement also known as Zowaa is an ethnic Assyrian political party in Iraq, and is currently the only Assyrian-based political party to be voting in the Iraqi parliament....
  
  (Zowaa Dimuqrataya Aturaya)- led by Yonadam Kanna
  Yonadam Kanna
  Yonadam Yousef Kanna is an Iraqi politician and a member of the Iraqi National Assembly. He was a member of the Iraqi Governing Council in 2003-2004 that was created following the Invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003. An Assyrian Christian from northern Iraq, Kanna served in the Kurdistan...
Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc
Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc
The Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc or Kutla al-Musalaha wa't-Tahrir is an Iraqi political party. The Sunni, liberal, and secularist party was founded as the Iraqi Homeland Party in Jordan in 1995 by exiles from Saddam's regime. A prominent member was Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel al-Majid...
The Upholders of the Message
The Upholders of the Message
The Upholders of the Message, is an Iraqi political list that ran in the December 2005 elections. This list won 1.2 % of the popular vote, thus receiving two seats. The members are supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr and they were allowed to join the United Iraqi Alliance primary election for the Iraqi...

(Al-Risaliyun)
Mithal al-Alusi List
Mithal al-Alusi List
The Mithal al-Alusi List is one of the coalitions of Iraqi political parties that ran in the December 2005 elections. It was formed from the Iraqi Federalist Gathering and the Iraqi Ummah Party The coalition won 0.3 % of the popular vote, thus receiving one seat, which was taken by its...
Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress
Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress
The Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress is a Yezidi political party in Iraq. The party represents Yezidi people in the Nineveh plains.It ran in the December 2005 elections and won 0.2 % of the popular vote, thus receiving one seat in the Iraqi parliament .The party won a local governorate seat...

Other parties

Communist Party of Iraq
Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
The Worker-Communist Party of Iraq is a Marxist political party in Iraq and amongst Iraqi exiles. Rebwar Ahmed is the current leader of this party. It was Established in July 1993 through a merger of communist groups....
Leftist Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
Leftist Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
The Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq is a small political party in Iraq, formed in 2004.The party was formed by a group of communists, some of whom were members in the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq soon after the WCPIraq decided to support the Worker-Communist Party of Iran - Hekmatist; the...
Alliance of Independent Democrats
Assembly of Independent Democrats
The Assembly of Independent Democrats is an electoral coalition that participated in the January 30, 2005 National Assembly legislative election in Iraq...

- led by Adnan Pachachi
Adnan Pachachi
Adnan al-Pachachi or Adnan Muzahim Amin al-Pachachi is a veteran Iraqi politician and diplomat. Pachachi was Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1959 to 1965 and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq from 1965 to 1967; he again served as Permanent Representative to the UN...
National Democratic Party
National Democratic Party (Iraq)
The National Democratic Party is an Iraqi political party. The party was founded after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as several Iraqis, including Naseer al-Chaderchi, son of former leader Kamil al-Chaderchi, and Abdel Amir Abbud Rahima, sought to revive the historic National Democratic Party.The...

- Naseer al-Chaderchi
Naseer al-Chaderchi
Naseer Kamel al-Chaderchi was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. al-Chaderchi is a Sunni Muslim and the leader of the National Democratic Party...
Green Party of Iraq
Green Party of Iraq
The Green Party of Iraq was created in 2003 and is dedicated to build an Iraq that is committed to "democracy, justice, and freedom" and one that respects equal rights for all Iraqis, irrespective of "religion, sect, or ethnicity"...
Iraqi Democratic Union
Iraqi National Accord
Constitutional Monarchy Movement - led by Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein
Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein
Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein was born in 1956, in Baghdad, Iraq. He is currently the leader of the Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy political party and claims to be the legitimate heir to the position of King of Iraq, based on his relationship to the last monarch, the late King Faisal II.-Early...
Assyrian Patriotic Party
Assyrian Patriotic Party
The Assyrian Patriotic Party is a political party in Iraq representing ethnic Assyrians that is led by Nimrud Baito. The party entered alliance with the Assyrian Democratic Movement in 1991, but eventually the ties between the two parties broke off...

- on 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...

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Assyria Liberation Party
Assyria Liberation Party
The Assyria Liberation Party or Gabo D'Furqono D'Othur was founded in 1995, and since 1997 the party has published the magazine Furqono...
Kurdistan Conservative Party
Kurdistan Conservative Party
The Kurdistan Conservative Party is led by Zaid Surchi and Zainab bin Khalil. The List represents tribal leaders and is dominated by the Surchi family. In 1996 KDP forces clashed with fighters from the Surchi family's home villages, killing Hussein Surchi, Zaid's uncle. The PUK supported the...
Turkmen People's Party
Turkmen People's Party
The Turkmen People's Party, or Türkmen Halk Partisi, is a political party representing the Turkmen minority in Iraq. The Turkmen People's Party , founded in 1997, was repressed under Saddam Hussein but has been able to operate freely since the regime was removed by U.S...
Iraqi Islamic Party
Iraqi Islamic Party
The Iraqi Islamic Party is currently the largest Sunni Islamist political party in Iraq as well as the most prominent member of the Iraqi Accord Front political coalition. It is currently part of the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki...

- led by Mohsen Abdel Hamid
Mohsen Abdel Hamid
Mohsen Abdel Hamid is an Iraqi politician and Islamic scholar who was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council , created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq.-Biography:...
Al Neshoor Party

Illegal parties

Hizb ut-Tahrir
Hizb ut-Tahrir
Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Sunni. pan-Islamic political organisation but keeps it open for all including shias,some of its beliefs are against sunni school of thought, whose goal is for all Muslim countries to unify as an Islamic state or caliphate ruled by Islamic law and with a caliph...
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region
The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region is a ba'athist regional organisation founded in 1951 by Fuad al-Rikabi...

(Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (Baghdad))

Parliamentary alliances and parties

Other parties

Illegal parties

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