 The council re-elected Abdulrahman Mustapha Fatah as governor, who had served since the 2003 invasion of Iraq 

Adel Mahudar Radi, a former Mahdi Army commander, was elected governor.The Governorate Council elected SCIRI member Mohammed Ali al-Hasani as the provincial Governor, and an Islamic Dawa Party member, Ahmad Marzouq Salal as the council president.al-Hasani was assassinated in August 2007 in an attack blamed on the Mahdi Army, and the council elected Marzouq his successor, with an SCIRI member becoming the council president.