The list received 9.8% of the vote and 43 out of 440 seats, coming third overall to the State of Law Coalition and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.

[7] Over time, numerous factions in the Sadrist Movement disagreed with Muqtada al-Sadr over various issues and broke off, forming separate militias and parties: In October 2012, various Iraqi religious sects joined the conflict in Syria on both sides.

[10] A senior Sadrist official and former member of Parliament, said that convoys of buses from Najaf, under the cover story of pilgrims, were carrying weapons and fighters to Damascus.

[11][12] The Sadrist Movement ended as second-largest political party in the 30 April 2014 Iraqi parliamentary elections, with 7% of the votes and 34 seats in Parliament.

The Sadrist Movement ended as the largest political party in the 10 October 2021 Iraqi parliamentary elections, with 10% of the votes and 73 seats in Parliament.