150,000 Vote in Saddam's Hometown

In Ramadi, where the province's nine candidates represent mainly Sunni parties, over 200,000 out of 700,000 eligible voters had flocked to polling stations by Thursday afternoon. In Tikrit, the birthplace of ousted president Saddam Hussein, about 150,000 voters reported to polling centres. Some 564,000 are eligible to vote for eight seats in the province. Source: Deutsche Presse-Agentur