2006 Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr by-election
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The vacant seats for Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr Triggered by resignation of Davoud Danesh-Jafari and Manouchehr Mottaki | |||||||||||||||||||||
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A by-election for the Islamic Consultative Assembly's constituency Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr was held on 15 December 2006, to fill two vacancies caused by resignation of Davoud Danesh-Jafari and Manouchehr Mottaki, who were appointed as finance and foreign ministers respectively. The voters in Tehran cast their ballots along with the nationwide Assembly of Experts election and the Tehran City Council election.[1]
The two seats went to conservative Hassan Ghafourifard and reformist Soheila Jolodarzadeh, who were placed the first and the second respectively in a plurality-at-large voting system.[1]
Results
[edit]The top sixteen candidates who ran for the seats, were:
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hassan Ghafourifard | Islamic Coalition Party | 452,801 | 21.44 |
| 2 | Soheila Jolodarzadeh | Islamic Labour Party | 445,834 | 17.82 |
| 3 | Asadollah Badamchian | Islamic Coalition Party | 294,861 | 13.96 |
| 4 | Seyyed Ali-Akbar Mousavi-Hosseini | Combatant Clergy Association | 124,058 | 5.81 |
| 5 | Seyyed Hassan Mousavi-Tabrizi | Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers | 56,587 | 2.68 |
| 6 | Mohammad Beheshti | — | 56,239 | 2.66 |
| 7 | Saeid Sadeghi | Development and Justice Party | 45,479 | 2.15 |
| 8 | Zahra Soleimani | — | 44,895 | 2.13 |
| 9 | Saeed Rajaee Khorasani | Independence Party of Iran | 43,253 | 2.05 |
| 10 | Leili Ahmadi | — | 40,346 | 1.91 |
| 11 | Mohammad-Hossein Tavakkoli | — | 38,056 | 1.80 |
| 12 | Ebrahim Azarpeyvand | — | 32,700 | 1.55 |
| 13 | Mahmoud Saber-Hamishegi | Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution | 32,132 | 1.52 |
| 14 | Mahmoud Ebrahimi | — | 30,935 | 1.47 |
| 15 | Hossein Rezakhah | Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude | 26,418 | 1.25 |
| 16 | Gholamreza Arefnasab | — | 26,376 | 1.25 |
| Total Votes | 2,111,037 | 100 | ||
| Source: ISNA | ||||
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Iran Report", Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, vol. 10, no. 1, 3 January 2007, retrieved 15 March 2021