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The Al Anbar Governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk. == Background == The governorate is overwhelmingly populated by Sunni Arabs. The sitting governorate council was elected in the Iraqi governorate elections, 2005. These elections took place at the same time as the Iraqi legislative election, January 2005 and were boycotted by nearly all Sunni Arab parties. The Iraqi Islamic Party was the only significant Sunni Arab party to put up candidates but they also withdrew from the ballot days before the election. The turnout in Anbar was 2% for the legislative elections and only 0.5% for the governorate election.〔3,775 out of an electorate of 765,002: : (Provincial Politics in Iraq - Freagmentation or Awakening? ), ''Washington Institute'', 1 April 2008, accessed on 12 January 2009 : (Al Anbar Province Details ), ''Al Sumaria'', 4 February 2009〕 Therefore although the Iraqi Islamic Party has traditionally been stronger in Mosul, they ended up with nearly all the seats on the governorate council. From 2004, the governorate became a major site of the insurgency in Iraq directed against the Iraq government and occupying United States army. However, the formation in September 2006 of the Anbar Salvation Council was a turning point, and led to the American-backed tribal forces driving al-Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgents out of al-Anbar. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Al Anbar governorate election, 2009」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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