Presidential election in Iran in July 1981

Election winner Mohammad Ali Radschāʾi

The Iranian presidential election in July 1981 took place on July 24, 1981 . Mohammad Ali Rajāʾi was elected President.

prehistory

President Abolhassan Banisadr , a member of the anti-Shah movement National Front before the Islamic Revolution , had increasingly opposed Khomeini during his tenure and had become the center of the opposition in the Islamic Republic.

In the vote on Banisadr's application for deposition on June 22, 1981, only one of the 177 MPs voted for the President. 12 MPs abstained and 190 voted for removal.

After President Abolhassan Banisadr , who had been in office since January 25, 1980 , had been removed from office by the Iranian parliament , a new president had to be found. The then incumbent Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Radschāʾi was able to unite the most votes by a clear margin in the elections scheduled one month after Banisadr was ousted. An election campaign did not take place because after Banisadr's escape into French exile on June 29, 1981, violence erupted between the rebellious People's Moschahedin and the Khomeini Revolutionary Guard .

Result

	be right	percent
Mohammad Ali Rajāʾi	12,779,050	90.0%
Abbas Scheibani	658,498	4.53%
Ali-Akbar Parwaresch	339,646	2.67%
Habibollah Asgar-Owladi	249,457	1.72%
total	14,573,803	100%

Further development

The election winner Mohammad Ali Rajāʾi fell victim to a bomb attack on August 30, 1981, so that a new president had to be elected in October.

See also

• History of Iran since 1979

Remarks

1. ↑ The high level of approval for the rajāʾi, who is relatively unknown among the people, leads to the assumption of election manipulation.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bahman Nirumand: With God for Power , Hamburg 1989, p. 326
2. ↑ Bahman Nirumand: Mit Gott für die Macht , Hamburg 1989, p. 327
3. ↑ syr.edu : 1981 Presidential Election ( Memento of March 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (English)