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1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Tehran province

On 3 August 1979, Constitutional Convention election was held in Tehran Province constituency with plurality-at-large voting format in order to decide ten seats for the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution

It resulted in a landslide victory or the Coalition of Islamic Parties, which all of its candidates won with a wide margin. Unlike other constituencies, the coalition's list of candidates was not dominated by the Khomeinists in the Islamic Republican Party and included four of their moderate rivals. Mahmoud Taleghani, the popular cleric who was endorsed by groups in a wide range of political spectrum, was ranked first and gained almost 80% of votes. Other coalitions including the Quintuple Coalition and the Grand National Alliance were defeated and none of their candidates, exempting those shared with the Islamic coalition, performed well. The former's top exclusive candidates, Asghar Sayyed Javadi and Massoud Rajavi, received no better than 12% of all votes cast.

No secular group was successful and all of candidates affiliated with such parties were defeated. Communist parties like the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, the Tudeh Party of Iran, the Socialist Workers' Party of Iran and the Laborers' Party of Iran, as well as those of the nationalists such as the Nation Party of Iran, the National Front and the Radical Movement of Iran, all did poor.

Results

Candidates of the Coalition of Islamic Parties who won in a landslide
Defeated candidates of the Quintuple Coalition
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas candidates
Tudeh Party of Iran candidates
Defeated candidates of different groups

By County

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Listed by the Islamic Coalition
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Listed by the Quintuple Coalition
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Listed by the Grand National Alliance
  4. ^ a b c d e Listed by the Septuple Coalition
  1. ^ Number of votes received by top-18 candidates:
    • Abrahamian, Ervand (1989), "To The Masses", Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin, Society and culture in the modern Middle East, vol. 3, I.B.Tauris, p. 195, Table 6, ISBN 9781850430773
    Mentions of the votes received by left-wing candidates:
    • Mirsepassi, Ali (2004), The Tragedy of the Iranian Left, RoutledgeCurzon, Table 10.3 Selected leftist candidates in the Tehran elections for the Assembly of Experts
    • Menashri, Daṿid (1990), Iran: a decade of war and revolution, Holmes & Meier, p. 86, ISBN 9780841909496
    Full result:
    • "Final Results of Tehran Election Declared" (PDF), Ettela'at (in Persian), no. 15927, p. 12, 12 August 1979 [21 Mordad 1358] – via mashruteh.org
  2. ^ Names of the candidates listed by coalitions:
    • A Candid Narration of the first ever Election in the Islamic Republic (in Persian), Mashregh News, 1 September 2017, 767865, archived from the original on 13 February 2019, retrieved 28 February 2020
    • "Candidates of Tudeh Party" (PDF), Mardom (in Persian), vol. 7, no. 45, 28 July 1979 [6 Mordad 1358]
    • "Candidates of Nation Party" (PDF), Ettehad-e-Bozorg (in Persian), no. 24, 26 July 1979 [4 Mordad 1358]
    • "Candidates of People's Fedai Guerrillas" (PDF), Kar (in Persian), no. 23, 30 July 1979 [8 Mordad 1358]
    • "Candidates of Socialist Workers' Party", Kargar (in Persian), no. 9, 2 August 1979 [10 Mordad 1358]
    • "Candidates of Peykar" (PDF), Peykar (in Persian), no. 14, 30 July 1979 [8 Mordad 1358]
    • "List of Candidates in Tehran" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami (in Persian), no. 32, 28 July 1979 [6 Mordad 1358]