Iranian constitutional election 1979 (Tehran Province)

This is an overview of the 1979 Iranian Constitutional Convention election in Tehran electoral district.

Results

#	Candidate	Coalition	Party	Votes
1	Mahmoud Taleghani	Islamic Coalition[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2]	Freedom Movement of Iran	2,016,801
2	Abolhassan Banisadr	Islamic Coalition[lower-alpha 2]	Independent	1,763,126
3	Hossein-Ali Montazeri	Islamic Coalition	Society of Seminary Teachers	1,672,980
4	Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri	Islamic Coalition[lower-alpha 1]	Independent	1,560,970
5	Mohammad Beheshti	Islamic Coalition	Islamic Republican Party	1,547,550
6	Ezzatollah Sahabi	Islamic Coalition[lower-alpha 1]	Freedom Movement of Iran	1,449,713
7	Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili	Islamic Coalition	Islamic Republican Party	1,389,846
8	Abbas Sheibani	Islamic Coalition	Islamic Republican Party	1,387,813
9	Monireh Gorji	Islamic Coalition	Islamic Republican Party	1,313,731
10	Ali-Mohammad Arab	Islamic Coalition	Islamic Republican Party	1,305,136
11	Asghar Sayyed Javadi	Quintuple Coalition	The Movement	298,360
12	Massoud Rajavi	Quintuple Coalition	People's Mujahedin Organization	297,707
13	Fakhreddin Hejazi	N/A	Islamic Republican Party	189,016
14	Abdolkarim Lahiji	Quintuple Coalition	Independent	179,798
15	Habibollah Peyman	Quintuple Coalition[lower-alpha 2]	Movement of Militant Muslims	164,644
16	Mohammad Mofatteh	N/A	Combatant Clergy Association	153,575
17	Azam Taleghani	N/A	Women of Islamic Revolution	132,430
18	Sadegh Khalkhali	N/A	Combatant Clergy Association	122,217
19	Roghayeh Daneshgari	N/A	People's Fedai Guerrillas	115,334
20	Yahya Nasiri	N/A	Combatant Clergy Association	111,279
21	Naser Katouzian	Quintuple Coalition	Independent	110,859
22	Tahereh Saffarzadeh	Quintuple Coalition	Movement of Militant Muslims	101,778
23	Mostafa Madani	N/A	People's Fedai Guerrillas	100,894
24	Heshmatollah Raisi	N/A	People's Fedai Guerrillas	90,641
25	Zahra Rahnavard	N/A	Movement of Militant Muslims	77,932
26	Hassan Tavanayanfard	N/A	Independent	75,352
27	Mehdi Hajghazi-Tehrani	N/A	People's Fedai Guerrillas	56,085
28	Morteza Aladpoush	N/A	Peykar	49,979
29	Ehsan Tabari	N/A	Tudeh Party	47,225
30	Hasan Nazih	Grand National Alliance	Freedom Movement of Iran	44,765
31	Nezameddin Ghahari	Quintuple Coalition	JAMA	36,791
32	Noureddin Kianouri	N/A	Tudeh Party	32,627
33	Mohammad-Ali Amouyi	N/A	Tudeh Party	25,792
34	Maryam Farmanfarmaian	N/A	Tudeh Party	25,792
35	Asef Razmdideh	N/A	Tudeh Party	20,942
36	Hassan Habibi	N/A	Freedom Movement of Iran	17,819
37	Abdolhamid Iravani	N/A	Combatant Clergy Association	17,819
38	Babak Zahraie	N/A	Socialist Workers' Party	16,446
39	Saber Mohammadzadeh	N/A	Tudeh Party	16,150
40	Abbas Hajari-Bajestani	N/A	Tudeh Party	15,942
41	Lotfollah Meisami	Grand National Alliance	People's Mujahedin Movement	11,274
42	Mahmoud Enayat	N/A	Muslim People's Republic Party	10,645
43	Parvaneh Forouhar	Grand National Alliance	Nation Party	8,110
44	Hossein Ansarian	N/A	Un­known	6,748
45	Alireza Jahandar	N/A	Un­known	4,785
46	Mahmoud Rezaei-Hanjeni	N/A	Hojjatieh	4,173
47	Ali Sadeghi	Grand National Alliance	Laborers’ Party	3,473
48	Noor-Ali Tabandeh	N/A	Independent	3,343
49	Behrouz Boroumand	N/A	Nation Party	2,840
50	Majid Zarbakhsh	Grand National Alliance	Laborers’ Party	2,719
51	Farideh Garman	Grand National Alliance	Laborers’ Party	2,685
52	Gholam-Ali Maloul	N/A	Independent	2,568
53	Asghar Ghaem-Maghami	N/A	Independent	2,519
54	Esmail Khoi	N/A	Independent	2,500
55	Sedigheh Nabavi	N/A	Socialist Workers' Party	1,974
56	Simin Movahed	N/A	Socialist Workers' Party	1,705
57	Mostafa Rahnama	N/A	Independent	1,629
58	Gholam-Ali Hassas	N/A	Un­known	1,509
59	Manouchehr Masoudi	N/A	Nation Party	1,482
60	Nosratollah Amini	N/A	National Front	1,407
61	Esmail Fazelpour	N/A	Nation Party	1,356
62	Rahim Abedi	N/A	Radical Movement	1,305
63	Ebrahim Karimabadi	N/A	National Front	1,175
64	Hossein Lankarani	N/A	Independent	1,113
65	Khosrow Seif	N/A	Nation Party	1,042
66	Hadi Soudbakhsh	Grand National Alliance	Damghani-Rad Group	990
67	Mohammad-Reza Jafari	N/A	Un­known	954
68	Jalal Ghanizadeh	N/A	National Front	590
69	Abolghasem Rafiee	N/A	Un­known	580
70	Naser Rangraz	N/A	Un­known	574
71	Ebadollah Mahmoudian	N/A	Socialist Workers' Party	567
72	Hojabr Khosravi-Azarbaijani	N/A	Socialist Workers' Party	555
73	Sadegh Taghavi	N/A	Un­known	507
74	Mohammad-Reza Amir-Aslani	N/A	Socialist Workers' Party	496
75	Ali Sadri	N/A	Nation Party	487
76	Ramezan Haj-Esmaili	N/A	Un­known	466
77	Abbas Abbasi	N/A	Un­known	447
78	Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi	N/A	Un­known	416
79	Seyyed Mehdi Hashemi	N/A	Un­known	392
80	Seyyed Ahmad Taghavizadeh	N/A	Un­known	349
81	Naser Fatemi	N/A	Un­known	301
82	Mohammad-Kaveh Touyserkani	N/A	Un­known	286
83	Ali Esmaili	N/A	Un­known	262
84	Ahmad Fardid	N/A	Independent	201
85	Mohammad-Hassan Shaqaqi	N/A	Un­known	195
86	Gholamreza Mortazavi	N/A	Radical Movement	176
87	Mahmoud Javidan	N/A	Un­known	152
88	Shahrokh Vakhshouri	N/A	Tehran Zoroastrian Association	138
89	Jalal Mofid	N/A	Un­known	136
90	Taghi Davoudi-Makkinejad	N/A	Radical Movement	131
	Khalil Haghighat	N/A	Un­known	131
92	Naser Yamin Mardux-Kordestani	N/A	Independent	112
93	Ahmad Haritash	N/A	Un­known	111
94	Ehsanollah Afshari	N/A	Un­known	110
95	Gholamreza Tehranian	N/A	Un­known	108
96	Naser Engheta	N/A	Un­known	102
	Ahmad Shahab	N/A	Fada'iyan-e Islam	102
98	Ziaedin Khajekarimedini	N/A	Un­known	99
99	Seyyed Yousef Hashemi	N/A	Un­known	75
100	Habibollah Zolghadr	N/A	Un­known	68
	Hormoz Bahmanpour	N/A	Un­known	68
102	Hossein Afshar-Moghadam	N/A	Un­known	66
	Ali-Akbar Ajili	N/A	Un­known	66
104	Jalil Hoghoughi	N/A	Un­known	54
	Hadi Khatami	N/A	Un­known	54
106	Mostafa Jomhouri	N/A	Un­known	44
107	Farrokh Shaban	N/A	Un­known	36
108	Seyyed Hadi Parnia	N/A	Un­known	21
109	Abbas-Ali Mazloumi Jahromi	N/A	Un­known	19
Source:[1][2]

Notes and references

1. Also listed by Quintuple Coalition.
2. Also listed by Grand National Alliance.

1. Number of votes received by top-18 candidates:
   • Abrahamian, Ervand (1989), "To The Masses", Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin, Society and culture in the modern Middle East, 3, I.B.Tauris, p. 195, Table 6, ISBN 9781850430773
   Mentions of the votes received by left-wing candidates:
   • Mirsepassi, Ali (2004), The Tragedy of the Iranian Left, RoutledgeCurzon, Table 10.3 Selected leftist candidates in the Tehran elections for the Assembly of Experts
   • Menashri, Daṿid (1990), Iran: a decade of war and revolution, Holmes & Meier, p. 86, ISBN 9780841909496
   Full result:
   • "Final Results of Tehran Election Declared" (PDF), Ettela'at (in Persian) (15927), p. 12, 12 August 1979 [21 Mordad 1358] – via mashruteh.org
2. Names of the candidates listed by coalitions:
   • A Candid Narration of the first ever Election in the Islamic Republic (in Persian), Mashregh News, 1 September 2017, 767865, archived from the original on 13 February 2019, retrieved 28 February 2020
   • "Candidates of Tudeh Party" (PDF), Mardom (in Persian), 7 (45), 28 July 1979 [6 Mordad 1358]
   • "Candidates of Nation Party" (PDF), Ettehad-e-Bozorg (in Persian) (24), 26 July 1979 [4 Mordad 1358]
   • "Candidates of People's Fedai Guerrillas" (PDF), Kar (in Persian) (23), 30 July 1979 [8 Mordad 1358]
   • "Candidates of Socialist Workers' Party", Kargar (in Persian) (9), 2 August 1979 [10 Mordad 1358]
   • "Candidates of Peykar" (PDF), Peykar (in Persian) (14), 30 July 1979 [8 Mordad 1358]
   • "List of Candidates in Tehran" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami (in Persian) (32), 28 July 1979 [6 Mordad 1358]