A doctoral thesis in the College of Law and Political Science discussed the legal organization of local council elections in Iraq / a comparative study, by the student: Jumaa Hussein Mahdi, and under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sami Hassan Najm. The study aimed to shed light on the local elections in Iraq that took place after 2003 according to the permanent constitution. of 2005 and the successive electoral laws, the latest of which is Law No. 12 of 2018 and its amendments, with an explanation of the positive and negative aspects of the texts of the articles that these electoral laws came with, as well as a statement of the role of the Independent High Electoral Commission in organizing and managing these elections and the extent to which this commission enjoys the principles of impartiality and integrity. The thesis concluded that Most of the legislation and laws of countries almost unanimously agree on the conditions of the voter in terms of nationality, age, mental and moral eligibility, as well as the voter register, and this is a good thing in the unity of international and Arab laws and in terms of equality in rights and duties to achieve social justice. It provides a legal text on the formation of local councils in sub-districts, and limited them to the governorates and districts in its article a. For a second he did not provide the compelling reasons adopted by the legislator in not mentioning its formation.