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Do you want Kurdistan to become an independent state? | |||||||||||||||||||
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An informalindependence referendum forKurdistan Region was held on 30 January 2005, with final results showing the vast majority of votes, 98.98 per cent, cast in favour of independence. Conducted by the Kurdistan Referendum Movement alongside theIraqi parliamentary elections andKurdistan Region elections of 2005, the referendum asked the people of Kurdistan Region whether they favoured remaining a part ofIraq or were in favour of an independentKurdistan.[1]
On 22 December 2004, a non-partisan delegation headed by Ardishir Rashidi-Kalhur, president of the Kurdish American Education Society met withCarina Perelli, Head of the U.N. Electoral Assistance Division and staff, at theUnited Nations Headquarters inNew York, to hand over 1,732,535 signatures, which were collected endorsing the call for an independence referendum on the future ofSouthern Kurdistan.
The referendum was held at the end of the term of theIraqi Interim Government.
The referendum did not lead to the independence of Kurdistan because of threats from neighboring countries, but the Kurdistan Region was granted autonomy in theConstitution of Iraq adopted on October 15, 2005.[2]
| Area: | Independence | Stay in Iraq | Total | Independence % | Stay in Iraq % | |||||||||
| Kirkuk: | 131,274 | 181 | 131,582 | 99.88 | 0.12 | |||||||||
| Nineveh: | 165,780 | 111 | 165,891 | 99.93 | 0.07 | |||||||||
| Diyala: | 35,786 | 627 | 36,413 | 98.28 | 1.72 | |||||||||
| Sulaymaniyah: | 650,000 | 5,796 | 656,496 | 99.12 | 0.88 | |||||||||
| Erbil: | 622,409 | 11,289 | 636,898 | 98.23 | 1.77 | |||||||||
| Duhok: | 368,163 | 2,247 | 370,781 | 99.39 | 0.61 | |||||||||
| Total: | 1,973,412 | 20,251 | 1,998,061 | 98.88% | 1.12% | |||||||||
The referendum included two provincesNineveh Governorate andDiyala Governorate with strong Arab majorities andKirkuk Governorate where Kurds are a plurality and not a majority. This undercuts the results of the referendum as a true exercise of self-determination by the Kurdish people, as it included territories not predominantly inhabited by them and ignored the will of local Arab and Turkmen populations
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