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Partial results from Iraqi vote show tight contest

Associated Press

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 10:31 AM

BAGHDAD (AP) — Partial preliminary results from four of 18 provinces in Iraq show the prime minister's bloc and a secular challenger winning two provinces each.

Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission says the secular coalition led by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has the lead in the former insurgent strongholds of Diyala and Salahuddin, north of Baghdad.

Thursday's announcement came hours after the commission said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was ahead in two mainly Shiite provinces in southern Iraq.

Final results are not expected for days. But the early results foreshadow a tight contest.

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