Parliamentary election in Iran 2000

The 2000 Iranian parliamentary elections took place on February 18, 2000.

To the prehistory

Before the election, the age limit for the right to vote was raised from 16 to 17 years. This meant that 38.7 million Iranians were eligible to vote. 6,083 candidates were allowed to vote; the Guardian Council did not admit 650 candidates.

Result

	Seats	percent
Participation front of Islamic Iran (reformers)	189	65%
Coalition following the line of the Imam (Conservatives)	54	19%
Independent	42	14%
Armenian minority	2
Chaldean and Assyrian minority	1
Jewish minority	1
Zoroaster	1
total	290 (including 10 women)	100

See also

• History of Iran since 1979 # Chātami government (1997-2005)

Footnotes

1. ↑ www.ipu.org
2. ↑ Levon Davidian , Georgik Abrahamian
3. ↑ Younatan Betkolia Googtapeh
4. ↑ Maurice Motamed
5. ↑ Khosro Dabestani