The combined Kurdistania list of Kurdish president Massud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani secured 59 of the 111 seats in the parliament.

Their tally in the 2005 election was 78 seats.

The commission's final allocation of seats made the Goran ("Change" in Kurdish) list the strongest opposition grouping, granting it 25 seats in its first contested parliamentary election.

The leftist-Islamist Services and Reform won 13 seats.

Five seats each went to Turkmen and Christian lists, two to the Islamic Movement, and one each to communist and Armenian candidates.

In simultaneous voting for the Kurdish presidency, Barzani garnered 69.57 percent, more than twice the total of his nearest challenger, London-based university professor Kamal Miraudly, who won 25.32 percent.