They just got released, and as expected, the Shiites dominated:

BAGHDAD, Iraq Feb 13, 2005 ???????? Iraq’s majority Shiite Muslims won nearly half the votes in the nation’s Jan. 30 election, giving the long-oppressed group significant power but not enough to form a government on their own.

The Shiites likely will have to form a coalition in the 275-member National Assembly with the other top vote-getters the Kurds and Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s list to push through their agenda and select a president and prime minister. The president and two vice presidents must be elected by a two-thirds majority.

The Shiite-dominated ticket received more than 4 million votes, or about 48 percent of the total cast, Iraqi election officials said. A Kurdish alliance was second with 2.175 million votes, or 26 percent, and Allawi’s list was third with about 1.168 million, or 13.8 percent.

Here is an interesting op-ed piece on Allawi, and Turkey is urging a recount on the Kurdish vote. Some of the complaints may be valid, though Turkey and the Kurds do have a history. And not a good one, so take it with some salt.

I’m not sure what happened about resolving some of the election complaints. It was said that the electoral commission would resolve all complaints before announcing the results, but I want to know what the solutions were. Remember the Mosul-area Christians whose voting centers never opened?