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| Judges and their aides count the ballots at a polling station in Kuwait City on July 27, 2013. Kuwait's Shiite minority lost more than half of their seats and liberals made slight gains in the Gulf state's second polls in eight months. (AFP) |
The final results, released by judicial authorities, showed Shiite candidates winning just eight seats in the 50-member parliament.
Shiite candidates had won a record 17 in the previous house elected in December but scrapped in a court ruling last month. Shiites form around 30 percent of Kuwait's native population of 1.23 million."
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