1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Khuzestan province

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Khuzestan election
3 August 1979 (1979-08-03)
All 4 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
Location of the constituency within Iran
Lists that won seats
  Majority party Minority party
 
Party Islamic Republican Party Movement of Militant Muslims
Seats won
3 / 4
3 / 4
  Third party Fourth party
 
Party Freedom Movement of Iran Combatant Clergy Association
Seats won
1 / 4
1 / 4
Defeated lsts

On 3 August 1979, a Constitutional Convention election was held in Khuzestan 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 was able to secure three of the seats (two of whom endorsed by the Movement of Militant Muslims), while the fourth winner was only supported by the Movement of Militant Muslims. They were followed by the defeated candidate who was endorsed by both the Combatant Clergy Association and the Freedom Movement of Iran in fifth place. Several communists who belonged to groups advocating different lines (Maoism, Trotskyism and pro-Soviet) also contested in the election but were all defeated by a wide margin. The two candidates of the right-wing Nation Party of Iran received less than 1% of the votes.

Results[edit]

1979 Constitutional Convention election: Khuzestan province
Party Candidate Votes %
IRP Mohammad Kiavash[a][b][c] 411,647 23.51
IRP Mohammad Karami[a][d][e] 397,595 22.71
IRP Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri[e] 313,118 17.89
MMM Mohammad Rashidian 273,489 15.62
FMI Ali Shafiei[d] 98,882 5.65
IRP Abolghassem Sattarian 64,239 3.67
CCA Issa Tarsi 35,604 2.03
OIPGF Nasim Khaksar 35,017 2.00
— Mehdi Tadayyon[f] 32,398 1.85
OIPGF Nasrollah Khaksar 28,137 1.61
CCA Mohammad-Kazem Danesh 25,347 1.45
FMI Khodamorad Haddadi 13,086 0.75
— Rahim Bani-Assad 12,206 0.70
RO Abbas Saberi 6,402 0.37
NPI Gholam-Hossein Dehdashti 4,626 0.26
Tudeh Party Ali-Akbar Mayelzadeh 4,500 0.26
NPI Khosrow Panahi 1,911 0.11
— Hamid Nezarat 494 0.03
SWPI Abdolhamid Shahrabi 418 0.02
Total votes 1,750,663 100
  1. ^ a b Supported by the Movement of Militant Muslims
  2. ^ Supported by the Freedom Movement of Iran
  3. ^ Supported by the Movement of Muslim Women (neḥzat-e zanān-e mosalmān).
  4. ^ a b Supported by the Combatant Clergy Association
  5. ^ a b Supported by Malek Ashtar Monotheistic Organization (sāzmān-e tohīdī-ye mālek-e aštar).
  6. ^ Supported by academics in Ahvaz.
Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 39, p. 7, 7 August 1979

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