The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan is the name of the electoral coalition being presented as a united Kurdish list in the 2005 election in Iraq. Elections are simultaneously being held for the assembly of the Kurdistan Regional Government. The Alliance represents a coalition of the two main Kurdish parties, the Kurdish Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan – once engaged in a civil war with each other – along with many smaller groups.

• Kurdish Democratic Party
• Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
• Kurdistan Islamic Union
• Kurdistan Communist Party
• Kurdistan Democratic Socialist Party
• Democratic Baith-Nahrain Party
• Assyrian Patriotic Party or Assyrian National Party
• Chaldean Democration Union
• Kurdish Toilers Party
• several smaller parties, including at least one Turkmen group

The alliance received 1,570,663 votes to the Kurdistan National Assembly, or 90% of the vote.

References

"Iraqi Christian Campaigning Hindered by Dangers, Lack of Funding." Assyrian International News Agency. Accessed on 15 January, 2005.