Parliamentary election in Iran in 1980

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The parliamentary elections in Iran in 1980 found on 14 March 1980 instead and were the first parliamentary elections after the Islamic Revolution and the fall of the Shah , Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran . 270 parliamentary seats were available for election, the minimum voting age was set at 16 years. In order to give religious minorities access to parliament, Article 64 of the constitution stipulates that one representative each of the Jews and Zoroastrians , two representatives of the Christian Armenians and one representative of the Chaldean and Assyrian minorities should have a guaranteed seat in parliament.

Result and consequences

be right Percentage ownership %
Eligible voters 20,758,391 100
Voters 10,875,969 52.14
registered candidates 3,694 100
admitted candidates 1.910 51.7
elected male candidates 266
elected female candidates 4th 1.48

It was foreseeable that the strongest political force within the changed party landscape would be the Islamic Republican Party with 130 seats. The preselection of candidates by the forerunner of the Guardian Council , the Revolutionary Council , was not in sight , a process that did not exist before. Almost 50% of the candidates did not achieve the desired qualification. The admission of the People's Mujahedin with its leader Masud Rajawi , who won 20 seats, was surprising . The nationalist-religious Iranian Freedom Movement under its chairman Mehdi Bāzargān , former Prime Minister of Iran, with 110 seats is astonishingly strong .

See also

Remarks

  1. The second round (by-elections) took place on May 9, 1980
  2. Eshagh Farahmandpour was the first Jewish member of the Iranian parliament after the Islamic revolution.
  3. by the Revolutionary Council
  4. 90 women registered to vote

Individual evidence

  1. unibe.ch Iran - Constitution , accessed on February 11, 2013
  2. princeton.edu ( Memento of May 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 1980 Parliamentary Election , accessed on February 10, 2013
  3. ipu.org (PDF; 8 kB) Iran 1980 , accessed on February 10, 2013