1980 Iranian presidential election
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The First Iranian presidential election was held on 25 January 1980. It was held one year after the Iranian Revolution when the Council of Islamic Revolution was in power. The number of the eligible voters in the country was 20,993,643.[1] However, the number of the actual voter was 14,152,887, leading to the voter turnout of 67.4%.[1][2]
Candidates
The number of the candidates registered to run for the presidency was 124, but only 96 of them were allowed to run.[1] There were only 8 candidates with ballot access and the rest of candidates were write-in.[3]
Candidates with ballot access
- Party nominees[3]
- Non-partisan candidates[3]
- Abolhassan Banisadr
- Ahmad Madani (National Front member)
- Sadeq Tabatabaei (Freedom Movement member)
- Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (Freedom Movement member)
- Mohammad Mokri (National Front member)
Withdrew
- Hassan Ayat (Independent; Islamic Republican Party memebr), endorsed Jalaleddin Farsi[4]
- Jalaleddin Farsi (Islamic Republican Party nominee), ineligible to run for the office due to his Afghan origin[4]
- Sadegh Khalkhali (Independent), endorsed Abolhassan Banisadr[4]
- Massoud Rajavi (People's Mujahedin of Iran nominee), forced to withdraw for opposing the Islamic Republic constitution[4]
Declined to run
Endorsements
Election results
Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as president.
Nationwide
Template:Iranian presidential election, 1980
Tehran
| # | Candidate | Votes[3] |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abolhassan Banisadr | 1,833,197 |
| 2 | Ahmad Madani | 553,557 |
| 3 | Hassan Habibi | 90,228 |
| 4 | Sadeq Tabatabaei | 28,676 |
| 5 | Kazem Sami | 24,676 |
| 6 | Dariush Forouhar | 22,221 |
| 7 | Sadegh Ghotbzadeh | 12,207 |
| 8 | Mohammad Mokri | 299 |
| 9 | Mahmoud Seirafizadeh | 169 |
| Others | <100 | |
References
- ^ a b c "1980 Presidential Election". Princeton University. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
- ^ Buchta, Wilfried (2000). Who rules Iran? (PDF). The Washington Institute and The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. p. 19.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "First Term of Presidential Elections; 25 January 1980" [اولین دوره انتخابات ریاست جمهوری؛ 5 بهمن 1358] (in Persian). Islamic Revolution Document Center. 30110. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Fattah Gholami (25 January 2015). "How the First Term of Presidential Elections Was Held" [اولین انتخابات ریاست جمهوری چگونه برگزار شد] (in Persian). Jaam-e Jam. 383451. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ Baktiari, Bahman. Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics. University Press of Florida, 1996. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-8130-1461-6.
- ^ Entessar, Nader. “Kurdish Politics in Regional Context”. In Kurdish Politics in the Middle East. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. p. 44. ISBN 0739140396, 9780739140390
- ^ Parsa, Misagh (1989), Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution, Rutgers University Press, p. 255, ISBN 0813514126
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