1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in East Azerbaijan province
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All 6 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution | ||||||||||||||||
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On 3 August 1979, a Constitutional Convention election was held in East Azerbaijan Province (also encompassing the present-day Ardabil Province) with plurality-at-large voting format in order to decide all six seats for the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution.
The result was a relative victory for the Muslim People's Republic Party (MPRP) over the Islamic Republican Party (IRP). A stronghold of Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari supporters, it was one of the few constituencies where Khomeinist candidates did not end up winning a landslide. Out of the six seats up for the election, four went to those endorsed by the MPRP while the IRP had listed three winners (one candidates was supported by both). Lay candidates supported by groups such as the Freedom Movement of Iran and the Movement of Militant Muslims were defeated. Khomeini published a fatwa banning the People's Mujahedin of Iran from government elections.[1][2] Secular nationalists and communists could not receive more than 3% of the votes.
Results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||||||
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MPRP | Jafar Sobhani[a] | 786,986 | 87.52 | ||||||||||
MPRP | Mohammad-Ali Angaji[b][c][d] | 580,854 | 64.60 | ||||||||||
MPRP | Jafar Eshraghi[b] | 560,793 | 62.37 | ||||||||||
MPRP | Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei[b] | 458,733 | 51.02 | ||||||||||
IRP | Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi | 446,643 | 49.67 | ||||||||||
IRP | Ali Meshkini[e][f] | 431,262 | 47.96 | ||||||||||
MPRP | Ahmad Alizadeh Khoi[b] | 419,601 | 46.66 | ||||||||||
MPRP | Abolfath Abolfathi[b] | 372,233 | 41.40 | ||||||||||
IRP | Mohammad-Ali Sadat | 261,667 | 29.10 | ||||||||||
IRP | Seyyed Mehdi Golabi | 196,738 | 21.88 | ||||||||||
IRP | Asghar Neishabouri | 181,474 | 20.18 | ||||||||||
— | Mohammad Milani-Hosseini[g][h][i] | 124,744 | 13.87 | ||||||||||
PMOI | Ahmad Hanifnejad[j] | 76,173 | 8.47 | ||||||||||
PMOI | Hossein Khosrowshahi[j] | 27,966 | 3.11 | ||||||||||
MMM | Hassan Efekhar-Ardebili[i] | 26,417 | 2.94 | ||||||||||
NPI | Mirjavad Mousavi-Khalkhali | 20,915 | 2.33 | ||||||||||
— | Saeid Rajaei-Khorasani[g][h] | 19,504 | 2.17 | ||||||||||
OIPGF | Nematollah Mohammadi-Golehini | 17,451 | 1.94 | ||||||||||
Tudeh Party | Hossein Joudat | 6,728 | 0.75 | ||||||||||
Tudeh Party | Anoushirvan Ebrahimi | 6,204 | 0.69 | ||||||||||
NF | Mohsen Firouzmand-Khalkhali | 4,889 | 0.54 | ||||||||||
JC | Bagher Mortazavi Khosrowshahi | 2,652 | 0.29 | ||||||||||
— | Ali Moghaddam | 1,952 | 0.22 | ||||||||||
— | Mohammad-Bagher Sadri | 1,183 | 0.13 | ||||||||||
NF | Jalal Ghanizadeh[d] | 1,142 | 0.13 | ||||||||||
— | Mashallah Talachian | 1,141 | 0.13 | ||||||||||
SWPI | Mahmoud Seirafizadeh | 539 | 0.06 | ||||||||||
NF | Manouchehr Malek-Ghassemi | 447 | 0.05 | ||||||||||
Total votes | 899,181 | 100 | |||||||||||
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Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 42, p. 3, 9 August 1979 |
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.