1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Tehran Province

On 3 August 1979, Constitutional Convention election was held in Tehran Province constituency with plurality-at-large voting format in order to decide ten seats for the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution

Tehran election
3 August 1979 (1979-08-03)
10 Members in the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
Location of the constituency within Iran
Coalitions by number of seats won
Alliance Great Islamic Coalition Quintuple Coalition Grand National Alliance
Seats won
10 / 10
3 / 10
2 / 10
Alliance Septuple Coalition
Seats won
0 / 10
Parties whose members won
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Mohammad Beheshti Mehdi Bazargan Hussein-Ali Montazeri
Party IRP FMI SST
Seats won
5 / 10
2 / 10
1 / 10
Defeated lists

It resulted in a landslide victory or the Coalition of Islamic Parties, which all of its candidates won with a wide margin. Unlike other constituencies, the coalition's list of candidates was not dominated by the Khomeinists in the Islamic Republican Party and included four of their moderate rivals. Mahmoud Taleghani, the popular cleric who was endorsed by groups in a wide range of political spectrum, was ranked first and gained almost 80% of votes. Other coalitions including the Quintuple Coalition and the Grand National Alliance were defeated and none of their candidates, exempting those shared with the Islamic coalition, performed well. The former's top exclusive candidates, Asghar Sayyed Javadi and Massoud Rajavi, received no better than 12% of all votes cast.

No secular group was successful and all of candidates affiliated with such parties were defeated. Communist parties like the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, the Tudeh Party of Iran, the Socialist Workers' Party of Iran and the Laborers' Party of Iran, as well as those of the nationalists such as the Nation Party of Iran, the National Front and the Radical Movement of Iran, all did poor.

Results
Candidates of the Coalition of Islamic Parties who won in a landslide
Defeated candidates of the Quintuple Coalition
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas candidates
Tudeh Party of Iran candidates
Defeated candidates of different groups
# Candidate Affiliation Votes %
1 Mahmoud Taleghani Freedom Movement of Iran[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] 2,016,801 79.86
2 Abolhassan Banisadr Independent[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 3] 1,763,126 69.82
3 Hossein-Ali Montazeri Society of Seminary Teachers[lower-alpha 1] 1,672,980 66.25
4 Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri Independent[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] 1,560,970 61.81
5 Mohammad Beheshti Islamic Republican Party[lower-alpha 1] 1,547,550 61.28
6 Ezzatollah Sahabi Freedom Movement of Iran[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] 1,449,713 57.41
7 Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili Islamic Republican Party[lower-alpha 1] 1,389,846 55.04
8 Abbas Sheibani Islamic Republican Party[lower-alpha 1] 1,387,813 54.95
9 Monireh Gorji Islamic Republican Party[lower-alpha 1] 1,313,731 52.02
10 Ali-Mohammad Arab Islamic Republican Party[lower-alpha 1] 1,305,136 51.68
11 Asghar Sayyed Javadi The Movement for Freedom[lower-alpha 2] 298,360 11.81
12 Massoud Rajavi People's Mujahedin Organization[lower-alpha 2] 297,707 11.79
13 Fakhreddin Hejazi Islamic Republican Party 189,016 7.48
14 Abdolkarim Lahiji Independent[lower-alpha 2] 179,798 7.12
15 Habibollah Peyman Movement of Militant Muslims[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] 164,644 6.52
16 Mohammad Mofatteh Combatant Clergy Association 153,575 6.08
17 Azam Taleghani Women of Islamic Revolution 132,430 5.24
18 Sadegh Khalkhali Combatant Clergy Association 122,217 4.84
19 Roghayeh Daneshgari People's Fedai Guerrillas[lower-alpha 4] 115,334 4.57
20 Yahya Nasiri Combatant Clergy Association 111,279 4.41
21 Naser Katouzian The Movement for Freedom[lower-alpha 2] 110,859 4.39
22 Tahereh Saffarzadeh Movement of Militant Muslims[lower-alpha 2] 101,778 4.03
23 Mostafa Madani People's Fedai Guerrillas[lower-alpha 4] 100,894 4.00
24 Heshmatollah Raisi People's Fedai Guerrillas[lower-alpha 4] 90,641 3.59
25 Zahra Rahnavard Independent 77,932 3.09
26 Hassan Tavanayanfard Independent 75,352 2.98
27 Mehdi Hajghazi-Tehrani Vanguard Workers[lower-alpha 4] 56,085 2.22
28 Morteza Aladpoush Peykar[lower-alpha 4] 49,979 1.98
29 Ehsan Tabari Tudeh Party 47,225 1.87
30 Hasan Nazih Freedom Movement of Iran[lower-alpha 3] 44,765 1.77
31 Nezameddin Ghahari JAMA[lower-alpha 2] 36,791 1.46
32 Noureddin Kianouri Tudeh Party 32,627 1.29
33 Mohammad-Ali Amouyi Tudeh Party 25,792 1.02
34 Maryam Farmanfarmaian Tudeh Party 25,792 1.02
35 Asef Razmdideh Tudeh Party 20,942 0.83
36 Hassan Habibi Freedom Movement of Iran 17,819 0.71
37 Abdolhamid Iravani Combatant Clergy Association 17,819 0.71
38 Babak Zahraie Socialist Workers' Party 16,446 0.65
39 Saber Mohammadzadeh Tudeh Party 16,150 0.64
40 Abbas Hajari-Bajestani Tudeh Party 15,942 0.63
41 Lotfollah Meisami People's Mujahedin Movement[lower-alpha 3] 11,274 0.45
42 Mahmoud Enayat Muslim People's Republic Party 10,645 0.42
43 Parvaneh Forouhar Nation Party[lower-alpha 3] 8,110 0.32
44 Hossein Ansarian Combatant Clergy Association 6,748 0.27
45 Alireza Jahandar Independent 4,785 0.19
46 Mahmoud Rezaei-Hanjeni Hojjatieh 4,173 0.17
47 Ali Sadeghi The Revolutionary Organization[lower-alpha 3] 3,473 0.14
48 Noor-Ali Tabandeh Independent 3,343 0.13
49 Behrouz Boroumand Nation Party 2,840 0.11
50 Majid Zarbakhsh The Revolutionary Organization[lower-alpha 3] 2,719 0.11
51 Farideh Garman The Revolutionary Organization[lower-alpha 3] 2,685 0.11
52 Gholam-Ali Maloul Independent 2,568 0.10
53 Asghar Ghaem-Maghami Independent (ex-Military) 2,519 0.10
54 Esmail Khoi Independent 2,500 0.10
55 Sedigheh Nabavi Socialist Workers' Party 1,974 0.08
56 Simin Movahed Socialist Workers' Party 1,705 0.07
57 Mostafa Rahnama Independent 1,629 0.06
58 Gholam-Ali Hassas Independent 1,509 0.06
59 Manouchehr Masoudi Nation Party 1,482 0.06
60 Nosratollah Amini National Front 1,407 0.06
61 Esmail Fazelpour Nation Party 1,356 0.05
62 Rahim Abedi Radical Movement 1,305 0.05
63 Ebrahim Karimabadi National Front 1,175 0.05
64 Hossein Lankarani Independent 1,113 0.04
65 Khosrow Seif Nation Party 1,042 0.04
66 Hadi Soudbakhsh The Revolutionary Organization[lower-alpha 3] 990 0.04
67 Mohammad-Reza Jafari Un­known 954 0.04
68 Jalal Ghanizadeh National Front 590 0.02
69 Abolghasem Rafiee Un­known 580 0.02
70 Naser Rangraz Un­known 574 0.02
71 Ebadollah Mahmoudian Socialist Workers' Party 567 0.02
72 Hojabr Khosravi-Azarbaijani Socialist Workers' Party 555 0.02
73 Sadegh Taghavi Independent 507 0.02
74 Mohammad-Reza Amir-Aslani Socialist Workers' Party 496 0.02
75 Ali Sadri Nation Party 487 0.02
76 Ramezan Haj-Esmaili Un­known 466 0.02
77 Abbas Abbasi Un­known 447 0.02
78 Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi Un­known 416 0.02
79 Seyyed Mehdi Hashemi Un­known 392 0.02
80 Seyyed Ahmad Taghavizadeh Independent 349 0.01
81 Naser Fatemi Un­known 301 0.01
82 Mohammad-Kaveh Touyserkani Un­known 286 0.01
83 Ali Esmaili Un­known 262 0.01
84 Ahmad Fardid Independent 201 0.01
85 Mohammad-Hassan Shaqaqi Un­known 195 0.01
86 Gholamreza Mortazavi Radical Movement 176 0.01
87 Mahmoud Javidan Independent 152 0.01
88 Shahrokh Vakhshouri Republican Party 138 0.01
89 Jalal Mofid Un­known 136 0.01
90 Taghi Davoudi-Makkinejad Radical Movement 131 0.01
Khalil Haghighat Jamiat Edalat 131 0.01
92 Naser Yamin Mardux-Kordestani Independent 112 0.00
93 Ahmad Haritash Independent 111 0.00
94 Ehsanollah Afshari Independent 110 0.00
95 Gholamreza Teiranian Independent 108 0.00
96 Naser Engheta Independent 102 0.00
Ahmad Shahab Fada'iyan-e Islam 102 0.00
98 Ziaedin Khajekarimedini Independent 99 0.00
99 Seyyed Yousef Hashemi Un­known 75 0.00
100 Habibollah Zolghadr Independent 68 0.00
Hormoz Bahmanpour Un­known 68 0.00
102 Hossein Afshar-Moghadam Un­known 66 0.00
Ali-Akbar Ajili Mojahedan-e Rah-e Haq 66 0.00
104 Jalil Hoghoughi Un­known 54 0.00
Hadi Khatami Combatant Clergy Association 54 0.00
106 Mostafa Jomhouri Un­known 44 0.00
107 Farrokh Shaban Un­known 36 0.00
108 Seyyed Hadi Parnia Un­known 21 0.00
109 Abbas-Ali Mazloumi Jahromi Un­known 19 0.00
Total Votes 2,525,381 100
Legend:
  Islamic modernists
  Islamists
  Communists
  Secular nationalists
Source:[1][2]

By County

Notes and references
  1. Listed by the Islamic Coalition
  2. Listed by the Quintuple Coalition
  3. Listed by the Grand National Alliance
  4. Listed by the Septuple Coalition
  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, vol. 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:
  2. Names of the candidates listed by coalitions:
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