1999 Tehran City Council election

An election to the Islamic City Council of Tehran took place on 26 February 1999, along with the local elections nationwide.

Islamic City Council of Tehran election, 1999

26 February 1999
15 City Council seats 8 seats needed for a majority
Alliance Reformists Principlists Seats won 15 0 Percentage 100% 0%
Elected Chairman Abdollah Nouri Reformists

The results showed a victory for the Reformist groupings, who won all of the seats.

Results

#	Candidate	Party	List[1]				Votes[2]	%[2]
			IIPF	ECP	ICP	CCA
↓ Sitting Members ↓
1	Abdollah Nouri	ACC	Yes	Yes	N/A		588,633	41.94
2	Saeed Hajjarian	IIPF	Yes	Yes	N/A		386,069	27.50
3	Jamileh Kadivar	WJA	Yes	Yes	N/A		369,669	26.34
4	Fatemeh Jalaeipour	IIPF	Yes	Yes	N/A		350,173	24.95
5	Ebrahim Asgharzadeh	IISP	Yes	Yes	N/A		347,173	24.73
6	Mohammad Atrianfar	ECP	Yes	Yes	N/A		322,897	23.00
7	Ahmad Hakimipour	AFIL	Yes	Yes	N/A		304,460	21.69
8	Mohammad-Hossein Doroudian	OSU	Yes	Yes	N/A		279,964	19.94
9	Mahmoud Alizadeh-Tabatabaei	ECP	Yes	Yes	N/A		260,462	18.55
10	Morteza Lotfi	ILP	Yes	Yes	N/A		224,867	16.02
11	Rahmatollah Khosravi	AFIL	Yes	Yes	N/A		220,021	15.67
12	Gholamreza Forouzesh	ECP	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	245,520	15.35
13	Sedigheh Vasmaghi	IIPF	Yes	N/A			210,303	14.98
14	Abbas Douzdouzani	IIPF	Yes	N/A			200,521	14.28
15	Mohammad Gharazi	ECP	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	192,211	13.69
↓ Alternate Members ↓
16	Davoud Soleymani	IIPF	Yes	N/A			190,772	13.59
17	Mohammad-Hossein Haghighi	IIPF	Yes	N/A			176,556	12.58
18	Amir Abedini	N/A	N/A				176,289	12.56
19	Mansour Razavi	ECP	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	167,288	11.92
20	Yahya Ale Eshaq	ICP	N/A		Yes	Yes	165,217	11.77
21	Mohammad Kazem Seifian	ICP	N/A		Yes	Yes	152,106	10.83
Valid Votes							1,403,389
Total Votes							1,480,275

Shahla Habibi, Mohammad Khakpour, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Nabi Habibi, Alinaghi Khamoushi, Mohammad Jahromi, Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were among notable candidates who lost the election.[1][3]

References

1. "بررسی آماری حضور چهره‌های شاخص سیاسی و گروه‌های حمايت‌کننده از آن‌ها در انتخابات شوراها". Hamshahri (in Persian) (1776). 25 February 1999.
2. Omid Karimi, "در ۳ دوره گذشته شورای شهر تهران هر نماینده چه تعداد و چند درصد رای آورد؟", Khabaronline (in Persian)
3. "Iran prepares for first-ever local elections", BBC, 10 February 1999, retrieved 10 March 2016