Iranian Constitutional Convention election, 1979

Iranian Constitutional Convention election, 1979
3 August 1979
All 73 seats to the Assembly of Experts for Constitution
Registered 20,857,391[1]
Turnout 51.71%
  First party Second party
 
Leader Mohammad Beheshti Mehdi Bazargan
Party Islamic Republican Party Freedom Movement
Leader's seat Tehran Did not stand
Seats won 55≈58 6≈8
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou[lower-alpha 1]
Party Muslim People's Republic Party Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
Leader's seat East Azerbaijan West Azerbaijan
Seats won 4≈7 1

Constitutional Convention elections were held in Iran on 3 August 1979. The result was a victory for the Islamic Republican Party.[2] 10,784,932 voted in the elections, marking 51.71% turnout.[1] Of all members elected, 68% were clerics.[3]

The new constitution drawn up by the body was approved by the voters in a referendum in December.[1]

Results

Party Seats %
Islamic Republican Party5575.3
Freedom Movement68.2
Muslim People's Republican Party45.5
Minority reserved seats34.1
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan1[lower-alpha 1]1.4
Total73100
Source[2]
List Seats
Grand Coalition58
Freedom Movement8
Muslim People's Republican Party7
Total73
Source[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Credentials of Ghassemlou were rejected.[1]
  1. 1 2 3 4 "The 1979 Assembly of Experts for the Drafting of the Constitution Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, retrieved 10 August 2015
  2. 1 2 Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof (2001). "Iran". Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook. I. Oxford University Press. p. 74. ISBN 0-19-924958-X.
  3. 1 2 Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (2014). A Critical Introduction to Khomeini. Cambridge University Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-107-72906-3.
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