1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election

1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election
← 1967 3–4 August 1979[1]
All 73 seats in the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
Registered20,857,391[2]
Turnout51.71%[2]
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Mohammad Beheshti Mehdi Bazargan Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
Party Islamic Republican Party Freedom Movement of Iran Muslim People's Republican Party
Leader's seat Tehran Did not stand Did not stand
Seats won 55≈66 3≈8 3≈7
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou[a] Massoud Rajavi Habibollah Peyman
Party Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan People's Mujahedin of Iran Movement of Militant Muslims
Leader's seat West Azerbaijan Tehran (defeated) Tehran (defeated)
Seats won 1 0 0
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Leader Farrokh Negahdar Noureddin Kianouri Dariush Forouhar
Party Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas Tudeh Party of Iran Nation Party of Iran
Leader's seat Did not stand Tehran (defeated) Did not stand
Seats won 0 0 0

Constitutional Convention elections were held in Iran on 3 and 4 August 1979. The result was a victory for the Islamic Republican Party.[3] There were 10,784,932 votes cast in the elections, marking 51.71% turnout.[2] Of all members elected, 68% were clerics.[4]

The new constitution drawn up by the body was approved by the voters in a referendum in December.[2]

  1. ^ Zabir, Sepehr (2012). Iran Since the Revolution (RLE Iran D). Taylor & Francis. pp. 34–35. ISBN 1136833005.
  2. ^ a b c d e "The 1979 Assembly of Experts for the Drafting of the Constitution Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, archived from the original on 2015-09-24, retrieved 10 August 2015
  3. ^ Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof (2001). "Iran". Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook. Vol. I. Oxford University Press. p. 74. ISBN 0-19-924958-X.
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