The election commission said Thursday that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki´s party won 38 percent of the votes in Baghdad in Saturday´s election, followed by allies of anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and a Sunni party with nine percent each.
In Basra, the country´s second biggest city, the prime minister´s followers won 37 percent to 11.6 percent for the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, the biggest Shiite party, the wire agency said.
Voters chose ruling councils in 14 of the 18 provinces in the first election since December 2005.
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