Shia majority for Iraq parliament

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The Shia United Iraqi Alliance party has won a majority of seats in Iraq's new transitional parliament. The party, which won the 30 January election with 48% of the vote, was allocated 140 seats. The Kurdish parties, which came second in the poll, have 75 seats and interim PM Iyad Allawi's party gets 40 seats.

United Iraqi Alliance is not a party; these all three "parties" consist of several parties and groups that allied themselves for the elections and the differences of opinion and goals of the member parties of the alliances are often significant.