BAGHDAD
Voting in Iraqi local elections ended at 5 p.m. on Saturday.
Local elections took place in 12 Iraqi provinces.
Regional administration in north of Iraq, Kirkuk, Mosul and Al Anbar provinces were not part of Saturday's elections.
Secretariat General of the Iraqi Council of Ministers declared Sunday as an official holiday so ballot boxes could be carried more easily.
There were no security problems reported during Saturday's local elections in Iraq.
8,302 candidates competed with each other for 447 seats in the local elections of Iraq.
245 foreign observers, 48,292 local observers, 945 local press members and 174 foreign journalists followed Saturday's local elections.
