Presidential election in Iran 2001

Election winner Mohammad Chātami (2001)

Ahmad Tavakkoli took second place.

Ali Shamchani finished third.

The 2001 Iranian presidential election took place on June 8, 2001. The reformer Mohammad Chātami received 77% of the vote and was thus re-elected.

prehistory

The election was preceded by Chātami's first term of office, which was initially marked by hopes of Western democracies for a reform process in Iran. Chātami struck liberal tones and made it his goal to liberalize society, which is permeated by state regulations and censorship. In particular, freedom of the press, freedom of expression and women's rights were on his agenda. Since the parliamentary elections on February 18, 2000 , the parliament has also been in the hands of reformers. However, Chātami faced with his reform approaches the resistance of the theocratic institutions around the supreme spiritual leader Seyyed Ali Chamenei . The Guardian Council prevented most of the reform laws and severely limited Chātami's influence.

At the time of the 2001 presidential election, large sections of the reform-minded population had already felt a certain resignation about the powerlessness of the government and parliament. Still, the reformers were able to mobilize their electorate and the turnout was 67%.

As in all elections, the Guardian Council had banned most of the candidates for the office of president from running. Out of 814 applicants, only 10 were allowed to vote.

Result

	be right	percent
Mohammad Chātami	21,659,053	77%
Ahmad Tavakkoli	4,393,544	15.6%
Ali Shamchani	737.962	2.62%
Mahmoud Jasebi	260,082	0.92%
Mahmoud Kashani	235.363	0.84%
Hassan Ghafourifard	129,222	0.46%
Mansour Razavi	114,327	0.41%
Ali Fallahian	55.176	0.20%
Mostafa Hashemi-Taba	28,090	0.10%
? Shahabeddin Sadr	?	?
total	28,081,930	100%

See also

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

Footnotes

1. ^ Johannes Reissner: Stability Analysis Iran . In: Sigrid Faath (Ed.): Stability Problems of Central States , Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3891730772 , p. 259
2. ^ Fischer Weltalmanach: Iran: Presidential Elections 2001
3. ↑ princeton.edu ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2001 Presidential Election , accessed February 2, 2013