The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan (DPAK) sometimes referred to simply as the Kurdistan Alliance (KA) is the name of the electoral coalition first presented as a united Kurdish list in the January 2005 election in Iraq. Elections were held simultaneously for the assembly of Kurdistan Region. The Alliance represents a coalition of the two main Kurdish parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Kurdistan Democratic Party Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Kurdistan Islamic Union Kurdistan Communist Party Kurdistan Toilers' Party Kurdistan Democratic Socialist Party Kurdistan Democratic National Party The alliance received 1,570,665 votes to the Kurdistan National Assembly, or 90% of the vote. At the federal level, the DPAK took close to 26% of the vote and won 75 seats out of 275 in the Iraqi National Assembly. They were able to secure the selection of Jalal Talabani (the PUK leader) as President of Iraq, while Massoud Barzani (KDP leader) became President of Kurdistan Region. References Kurdish nationalism in Iraq Kurdish political party alliances Kurdish political parties in Iraq Kurdish nationalist political parties Political parties in Kurdistan Region Defunct political party alliances in Iraq 2005 establishments in Iraqi Kurdistan