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Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's party scored a sweeping victory over rival Shiite Muslim groups in provincial elections as voters rewarded him for security gains and rejected other Shiite parties' overt religious leanings, according to results released today.

The independent electoral commission has received a flood of complaints about fraud and other violations from the largely Sunni Arab Anbar province.

The 'reformed reformer' wants to be governor again -- 35 years after first winning the post.

It was 1974 when Jerry Brown ran for governor as a dashing 36-year-old reformer, the embodiment of change in Watergate's aftermath.

The prime minister is credited with a drop in violence in once-lawless parts of Iraq.

A young Sunni man strolling along the Tigris River hesitated when asked whom he had voted for in provincial elections today.

Voting in Iraq began early Saturday in the war-ravaged country's important provincial elections.

Iraq began sealing its borders, halting air traffic and ordering overnight curfews in some of its largest cities on the eve of its nationwide provincial elections, officials said Friday.

Saturday's vote will be country's first since '05 and will determine leaders of 14 of 18 provinces.

An election in two days in Iraq's most violent province, where al Qaeda and other insurgents are making a last stand, could bring Sunni Arabs back into power and ease resentment that has fueled the bloodshed.