Democratic process

Election Day Timeline

The following is a timeline of attacks on election day in Iraq since polls opened at 7am (1500 AEDT). Local times indicate when attacks were reported.

* Suicide car bomb explodes outside Baghdad house owned by Justice Minister Malik al-Hassan, who was out (1.06pm.)

* Suicide bomber kills two policemen in Baghdad (12.47pm)

* US Marine is killed in action in volatile Anbar province west of Baghdad (12.41pm)

* Suicide bomber kills at least six people in queue outside polling station in eastern Baghdad (12.10pm.)

* Suicide bomber kills one person and wounds 16 at Baghdad polling centre (11.55 am)

* Suicide bomber kills at least one person and wounds four at polling centre in western Baghdad (11.15am.)

* Suicide bomber kills at least four people and wounds nine at polling centre in western Baghdad (10.54am.)

* Suicide bomber kills at least four people at polling station in Baghdad's Sadr City (10.07am)

* Suicide bomber blows himself up in queue of voters outside west Baghdad polling station, causing several casualties (10.06am)

* Mortars land near several Baghdad polling stations, killing two people and wounding several (10.04am)

* Mortar attack kills one person near Hilla, south of Baghdad (9.32am)

* Blast hits voting station in central Basra, no word on casualties (8.54am)

* Suicide car bomber kills policeman at checkpoint near polling station in west Baghdad (8.18am)

Holy f*cking shit.