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
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas Septuple Coalition Muslim People's Republic Party (list retracted) National Front (list retracted) Radical Movement of Iran Nation Party of Iran Tudeh Party of Iran Socialist Workers' Party of Iran

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[a][b][c]	2,016,801	79.86
2		Abolhassan Banisadr	Independent[a][c]	1,763,126	69.82
3		Hossein-Ali Montazeri	Society of Seminary Teachers[a]	1,672,980	66.25
4		Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri	Independent[a][b]	1,560,970	61.81
5		Mohammad Beheshti	Islamic Republican Party[a]	1,547,550	61.28
6		Ezzatollah Sahabi	Freedom Movement of Iran[a][b]	1,449,713	57.41
7		Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili	Islamic Republican Party[a]	1,389,846	55.04
8		Abbas Sheibani	Islamic Republican Party[a]	1,387,813	54.95
9		Monireh Gorji	Islamic Republican Party[a]	1,313,731	52.02
10		Ali-Mohammad Arab	Islamic Republican Party[a]	1,305,136	51.68
11		Asghar Sayyed Javadi	The Movement for Freedom[b]	298,360	11.81
12		Massoud Rajavi	People's Mujahedin Organization[b]	297,707	11.79
13		Fakhreddin Hejazi	Islamic Republican Party	189,016	7.48
14		Abdolkarim Lahiji	Independent[b]	179,798	7.12
15		Habibollah Peyman	Movement of Militant Muslims[b][c]	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[d]	115,334	4.57
20		Yahya Nasiri	Combatant Clergy Association	111,279	4.41
21		Naser Katouzian	The Movement for Freedom[b]	110,859	4.39
22		Tahereh Saffarzadeh	Movement of Militant Muslims[b]	101,778	4.03
23		Mostafa Madani	People's Fedai Guerrillas[d]	100,894	4.00
24		Heshmatollah Raisi	People's Fedai Guerrillas[d]	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[d]	56,085	2.22
28		Morteza Aladpoush	Peykar[d]	49,979	1.98
29		Ehsan Tabari	Tudeh Party	47,225	1.87
30		Hasan Nazih	Freedom Movement of Iran[c]	44,765	1.77
31		Nezameddin Ghahari	JAMA[b]	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[c]	11,274	0.45
42		Mahmoud Enayat	Muslim People's Republic Party	10,645	0.42
43		Parvaneh Forouhar	Nation Party[c]	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[c]	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[c]	2,719	0.11
51		Farideh Garman	The Revolutionary Organization[c]	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[c]	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

Karaj County # Candidate Votes % 1 Mahmoud Taleghani 208,034 99.23 2 Abolhassan Banisadr 185,657 88.56 3 Hossein-Ali Montazeri 180,753 86.22 4 Mohammad Beheshti 168,937 80.58 5 Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri 165,503 78.95 6 Ezzatollah Sahabi 159,468 76.07 7 Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili 153,456 73.20 8 Abbas Sheibani 150,106 71.60 9 Ali-Mohammad Arab 139,133 66.37 10 Monireh Gorji 138,325 65.98 11 Sadegh Khalkhali 23,634 11.27 12 Asghar Sayyed Javadi 19,345 9.23 13 Massoud Rajavi 18,704 8.92 14 Azam Taleghani 15,149 7.23 15 Habibollah Peyman 14,043 6.70 16 Fakhreddin Hejazi 12,520 5.97 17 Abdolkarim Lahiji 8,575 4.09 18 Hassan Tavanayanfard 8,275 3.95 19 Yahya Nasiri 6,245 2.98 20 Zahra Rahnavard 5,745 2.74 21 Naser Katouzian 5,725 2.73 22 Tahereh Saffarzadeh 5,445 2.60 23 Mohammad Mofatteh 5,314 2.53 24 Roghayeh Daneshgari 4,683 2.23 25 Mostafa Madani 3,846 1.83 Total Votes 209,642 100

Varamin County # Candidate Votes % 1 Mahmoud Taleghani 63,295 98.29 2 Hossein-Ali Montazeri 60,524 93.99 3 Abolhassan Banisadr 59,401 92.24 4 Mohammad Beheshti 58,647 91.07 5 Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili 57,663 89.55 6 Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri 57,567 89.40 7 Abbas Sheibani 56,312 87.45 8 Ali-Mohammad Arab 55,071 85.52 9 Monireh Gorji 53,154 82.54 10 Ezzatollah Sahabi 31,610 49.09 11 Mohammad Mofatteh 23,438 36.40 12 Fakhreddin Hejazi 3,101 4.82 13 Yahya Nasiri 1,846 2.87 14 Azam Taleghani 1,736 2.70 15 Zahra Rahnavard 1,734 2.69 16 Asghar Sayyed Javadi 1,690 2.62 17 Sadegh Khalkhali 1,644 2.55 18 Habibollah Peyman 1,534 2.38 19 Massoud Rajavi 1,505 2.34 20 Hassan Tavanayanfard 816 1.27 21 Naser Katouzian 553 0.86 Abdolkarim Lahiji 553 0.86 23 Tahereh Saffarzadeh 309 0.48 24 Hassan Nazih 267 0.41 25 Roghayeh Daneshgari 254 0.39 Total Votes 64,395 100

Damavand County and Firuzkuh District # Candidate Votes % 1 Mahmoud Taleghani 35,569 98.92 2 Abolhassan Banisadr 33,652 93.59 3 Hossein-Ali Montazeri 33,118 92.10 4 Ezzatollah Sahabi 32,795 91.21 5 Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri 32,437 90.21 6 Mohammad Beheshti 32,152 89.42 7 Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili 31,050 86.35 8 Abbas Sheibani 30,857 85.82 9 Ali-Mohammad Arab 30,152 83.86 10 Monireh Gorji 29,951 83.30 11 Massoud Rajavi 2,230 6.20 12 Asghar Sayyed Javadi 1,939 5.39 13 Habibollah Peyman 1,660 4.62 14 Abdolkarim Lahiji 1,215 3.38 15 Yahya Nasiri 1,193 3.32 16 Mostafa Madani 890 2.48 17 Naser Katouzian 837 2.33 18 Roghayeh Daneshgari 795 2.21 19 Mohammad Mofatteh 739 2.06 20 Tahereh Saffarzadeh 727 2.02 21 Heshmatollah Raisi 692 1.92 22 Azam Taleghani 655 1.82 23 Zahra Rahnavard 625 1.74 24 Fakhreddin Hejazi 548 1.52 25 Ehsan Tabari 373 1.04 Total Votes 35,957 100

Notes and references

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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:

   • "Final Results of Tehran Election Declared" (PDF), Ettela'at (in Persian), no. 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), vol. 7, no. 45, 28 July 1979 [6 Mordad 1358]
   • "Candidates of Nation Party" (PDF), Ettehad-e-Bozorg (in Persian), no. 24, 26 July 1979 [4 Mordad 1358]
   • "Candidates of People's Fedai Guerrillas" (PDF), Kar (in Persian), no. 23, 30 July 1979 [8 Mordad 1358]
   • "Candidates of Socialist Workers' Party", Kargar (in Persian), no. 9, 2 August 1979 [10 Mordad 1358]
   • "Candidates of Peykar" (PDF), Peykar (in Persian), no. 14, 30 July 1979 [8 Mordad 1358]
   • "List of Candidates in Tehran" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami (in Persian), no. 32, 28 July 1979 [6 Mordad 1358]