List of members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq, 2005–2010

The members of the first Iraqi Council of Representatives were elected in December 2005 under the newly adopted constitution.

The main functions of the Council were to:

Elect the first permanent government of Iraq since the invasion and occupation of Iraq by United States and allied forces in 2003
Discuss amendments to the constitution
Implement various element of the constitution including nominating members of the judiciary, resolving the status of Kirkuk and establishing Regions.

Votes chose between coalition lists, and seats were allocated according to a formula that considered first the proportion of votes received in each governorate and then allocated compensatory national seats to those lists where the governorate seats did not reflect their share of the national vote. Individual members were then nominated by the lists.

Where members of the Council of Representative are appointed to the Council of Ministers or the Presidency Council they have to resign their seat and the coalition list must appoint a replacement member. The same is the case if a member dies, resigns, is disqualified or incapacitated or is deemed to have "committed a crime against the constitution" ^[1]

United Iraqi Alliance - 128 seats[]

Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council[]

SIIC was previously known as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq or SCIRI

Abd al-Aziz Muhsin Mahdi al-Hakim Leader of the United Iraqi Alliance
Basimah Aziz Nasir
Hamid Rashid Ma`ala
Rida Jawad Taqi
(an ethnic Iraqi Turkmen)
Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir (Badr Organization)
(Badr Organization)
(Badr Organization)
(Badr Organization)
(Badr Organization)
(Badr Organization)
(Badr Organization)
(Badr Organization)
(Badr Organization)
(Badr Organization)
(Badr Organization)
(Badr Organization)
(Badr Organization)
Hadi Farhan al-Amiri (Badr Organization)
(Badr Organization)
Hammam Baqir Abd al-Hamid Hammudi (Badr Organization)

Sadrist Movement[]

Note: the Sadrist Movement boycotted the Council of Representatives from 13 June to 17 July 2007 in protest of the 2007 al-Askari Mosque bombing^[2]

Note that the Sadrist Movement quit the United Iraq Alliance in September 2007^[3]

Baha' al-A`raji

Islamic Virtue Party[]

Note that the Islamic Virtue Party left the United Iraqi Alliance in March 2007. They had previously quit the government of Nouri al-Maliki in March 2006 - see Government of Iraq from 2006 for more information.^[4]

Sabah Julub Falih
Nadim Isa al-Jabiri

Islamic Dawa Party[]

Ali Muhammad Salih al-Adib
Haidar al-Abbadi
Ibrahim Abd al-Karim al-Ja`fari (split in 2007 to the National Reform Trend)
(split in 2007 to the National Reform Trend) ^[5]

Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organisation[]

Kasim Muhammad Taqi al-Sahlani
Abd al-Karim Ali al-Anazi

Independents[]

Khalid Abadhir al-Atiyah
Sami Jasim al-Askari
Shatha Mousa Sadiq
Abbas Hasan al-Bayati (an ethnic Iraqi Turkmen)
Qassim Daoud

Others[]

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Kurdistani Alliance - 53 seats[]

1. Ablahad Afraim Sawa - Chaldean Democratic Union
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. - Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13. Barham Salih - Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
14.
15. Jalal Talabani - Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
16.
17. (an ethnic Yazidi^[6])
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27. Aref Tayfour - Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37. Fawzi Franso Hariri - Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq
38.
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44.
45.
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47. Mohamed Fouad Maasoum Khader
48. Mahmoud Othman - Kurdish Socialist Party
49.
50.
51. Hoshyar Zebari - Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq
52. - Iraqi Turkomen Brotherhood Party^[7]
53.

Iraqi Accord Front - 44 seats[]

(Note: The Front boycotted the Council of Representatives from 2007-06-24 in protest at the suspension of the speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani and the arrest warrant against Culture Minister As'ad al-Hashimi.^[8]^[9] They ended their boycott 19 July after Mashhadani was reinstated. ^[10])

Note: Six members of the IAF have defected since their election^[11]

1.
2.
3.
4. Azhar Abd Al Majeed Husain
5.
6. Asma Adnan Mohamed
7. Asma Abd Alla Saleh
8.
9.
10.
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12. Taiseer Najeh Awad
13.
14. Hareth Mohei Al Deen Abed
15.
16. - resigned from the Front in July 2008 ^[11]
17. Khalaf al-Ulayyan
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23. Saleem Abd Alla Ahmad al-Jabouri
24.
25. Tariq al-Hashimi
26.
27.
28.
29.
30. Abd Al Naser Kareem Yousef al-Janabi - resigned October 2007 and replaced by Ahmed Radhi^[12]
31.
32. `Adnan al-Dulaymi
33.
34. ^[13] He resigned from the Front in July 2008 ^[11]
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36.
37. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani
38.
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40. Naef Jasem Mohamed
41.
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44.

Iraqi National List - 25 seats[]

1. Usama Abd Al Azeez Al Najafi
2. Iyad Allawi - Iraqi National Accord
3. Iyad Raouf Mohamed Jalal Al Deen
4.
5. Hajem Mahdi Saleh al-Hassani (independent since Sep 2007 ^[14])
6.
7. Husain Ali Al Sha'alan (d. July 2007)
8. Hamid Majid Mousa - Iraqi Communist Party
9.
10.
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12. Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail (independent since Sep 2007 ^[14])
13. (died June 27, 2007?) Archived July 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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15.
16. Adnan Pachachi - Assembly of Independent Democrats
17.
18. Ghazi al-Yawar - The Iraqis
19. Falah Hassan al-Naqib
20.
21.
22. Mofeed Mohaed Jawad - Iraqi Communist Party
23. Mahdi Ahmad Al Hafeth - (since May 2007 an independent^[15])
24. Maysun al-Damluji
25. Wael Abdul Latif

Iraqi National Dialogue Front - 11 seats[]

(Note: The Dialogue Front boycotted the Council of Representatives from 24 June to 19 July 2007 in protest at the suspension of the speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani and the arrest warrant against Culture Minister As'ad al-Hashimi ^[8]^[9]^[10])