The Independent High Electoral Commission of Iraq (IHEC) said on Sunday that the voters turnout in the country's provincial election was 51 percent, Xinhua reported.
"The turnout of voters nationwide reached to 51 percent," Faraj al-Haydari, chairman of the IHEC told reporters in Baghdad.
Some 7.5 million out of 15 million eligible voters participated in Saturday's elections, Haydari said at a press briefing.
He said the turnout was ranging from 40 percent in the Sunni province of Anbar to 65 percent in Salahudin province, which includes the hometown of toppled ex-president Saddam Hussein.
Haydari also said that final turnout figure for Baghdad is not ready yet, but said that initial reports put it around 40 percent.
In the 2005 parliamentary elections, the voters turnout was 59 percent as Sunni Arabs boycotted the polls because of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.
On Saturday, millions of Iraqis headed to cast their ballots in polling stations across 14 out of 18 Iraqi provinces to choose their leaders in provincial councils.