Parliamentary election in Iran 2004

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The 2004 Iranian parliamentary elections took place on February 20, 2004.

prehistory

On December 13, 2003, nomination of candidates for the Iranian Parliament ( Majlis ) began . On February 20, 2004, the Guardian Council published the list of 4,679 eligible candidates, approximately 3,600 applicants were rejected, including 83 former parliamentarians.

Results

  Seats percent
conservative 156 54%
reformer 39 13%
Independent 31 11%
elected in the 2nd round of voting 59 20%
Armenian minority 2
Chaldean and Assyrian minority 1
Jewish minority 1
Zoroastrian minority 1
total 290 (including 9 women) 100%

According to the Interior Ministry, the turnout was 50.57%. 46.3 million Iranians were eligible to vote.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Iran Report of the Heinrich Böll Foundation 03.2004  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 160 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.boell.de  
  2. Gevork Vartan, Robert Beglarian
  3. Younatan Betkolia Googtapeh
  4. Maurice Motamed
  5. Kourosh Niknam
  6. http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2149_04.htm