Tags: Election.
Presidential elections were held in the Republic of Iraq on October 16 2002 the second under the rule of Saddam Hussein (the first having taken place in 1995). According to official statistics the turnout was 100% with all 11445638 Iraqis registered as voting on election day all as having elected yes in a referendum whether to support another seven year-term for President Saddam Hussein which would legally have ended in 2009.