1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Isfahan province
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All 4 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution | ||||||||||
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![]() Location of the constituency within Iran | ||||||||||
Coalitions that won seats | ||||||||||
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On 3 August 1979, a Constitutional Convention election was held in Isfahan Province constituency with plurality-at-large voting format in order to decide four seats for the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution.
The Islamic Republican Party won. Because of conflicts and the major support the People's Mujahedin of Iran received among different minorities and Iranian sectors, Ayatollah Khomeini published a fatwa that prevented the group from taking part in elections of the new government.[1][2]
Unlike other provinces, the constituency was not contested by groups such as the Freedom Movement of Iran or the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas.
Results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||||||
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IRP | Jalaleddin Taheri[a][b][c][d][e][f][g][h][i] | 787,687 | 83.33 | ||||||||||
IRP | Ali-Akbar Parvaresh[f][g][i][j][k] | 710,726 | 75.19 | ||||||||||
IRP | Hossein Khademi[b][k][j] | 585,302 | 61.92 | ||||||||||
IRP | Hassan Ayat[l][c][f][j][h] | 479,818 | 50.76 | ||||||||||
CCA | Mohammad Emami-Kashani | 158,905 | 16.81 | ||||||||||
QC | Mohammad Ahmadi-Foroushani | 137,623 | 14.56 | ||||||||||
— | Ahmad Salamatian[f][j][g] | 137,022 | 14.50 | ||||||||||
CCA | Ahmad Faghih-Emami[i][j] | 63,484 | 6.72 | ||||||||||
CCA | Mohammad-Ali Movahed Abtahi[j] | 51,858 | 5.49 | ||||||||||
— | Ahmad Ghazanfarpour[f][g] | 50,932 | 5.39 | ||||||||||
CCA | Hassan Safi[j] | 48,075 | 5.09 | ||||||||||
— | Javad Gharavi | 28,489 | 3.01 | ||||||||||
QC | Rahmatollah Khaleghi[k] | 10,466 | 1.11 | ||||||||||
MPRP | Aboutorab Nafisi | 7,205 | 0.76 | ||||||||||
— | Hassan Faghih-Emami | 5,485 | 0.58 | ||||||||||
Tudeh Party | Hossein Azar | 5,118 | 0.54 | ||||||||||
NPI | Ahmad Gheisari-Esfehanai | 3,838 | 0.41 | ||||||||||
QC | Abolfazl Mirshams-Shahshahani | 3,019 | 0.32 | ||||||||||
NPI | Ahmad Yaraghi | 1,951 | 0.21 | ||||||||||
JC | Asghar Tofangsaz | 1,815 | 0.19 | ||||||||||
— | Mostafa Shahrtash | 1,752 | 0.19 | ||||||||||
— | Hossein Aghasharif | 1,089 | 0.12 | ||||||||||
— | Mohammad-Bagher Farani | 1,054 | 0.11 | ||||||||||
— | Mohammad-Bagher Khalesi | 755 | 0.08 | ||||||||||
— | Hossein Morvarid | 432 | 0.05 | ||||||||||
Total votes | 945,285 | 100 | |||||||||||
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Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 40, p. 3, 7 August 1979[permanent dead link] |
References
[edit]- ^ Cohen, Ronen (2009). The Rise and Fall of the Mojahedin Khalq, 1987-1997: Their Survival After the Islamic Revolution and Resistance to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Sussex Academic Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-1845192709.
- ^ Katzman, Kenneth (2001). "Iran: The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran". In Benliot, Albert V. (ed.). Iran: Outlaw, Outcast, Or Normal Country?. Nova. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-56072-954-9.