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Iraq’s March 2010 elections delivered an unexpected result on the national level, but their biggest surprise came in the ethnically mixed governorate, or province, of Kirkuk. In contrast to the previous national elections, in which the Kurdistan Alliance won over 50 percent of the vote in Kirkuk and no other list received more than 14 percent, the 2010 polls returned a virtual tie between the secular Iraqiya List and the Kurdistan Alliance.