Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 24 March 1996.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p97 The elections were contested by 689 candidates,Iraq Inter-Parliamentary Union although 30 MPs were appointed to represent Iraqi Kurdistan.Nohlen et al., p101 The result was a victory for the Ba'ath Party, which won 161 of the 250 seats. Voter turnout was reported to be 93.5%.
All candidates "had been approved beforehand by a committee chaired by the Justice Minister".
Results
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