The Kurdistania alliance, made up of regional president Massud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, garnered 178,071 votes in the election.

Goran ("Change" in Kurdish), which is largely comprised of ex-PUK members, was second with 160,144.

It was not immediately clear what percentage of votes had been tallied in Sulaimaniyah, which accounts for 17 parliamentary seats in Iraq's 325-member Council of Representatives.