1988 Iranian legislative election

1988 Iranian legislative election
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All 270 seats of Islamic Consultative Assembly
136 seats needed for a majority
Registered27,986,736[1]
Turnout59.72%[1]
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Mehdi Karoubi Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
Party Association of Combatant Clerics
and allies
 Combatant Clergy Association
and allies
Alliance Left Right
Leader's seat Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat (defeated)
Seats won ≈160[2] ≈90[2]
National Consultative Assembly of Iran following the 1988 election
Composition of the Assembly following the election
Prime Minister before election

Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Independent

Elected Prime Minister

Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 8 April 1988, with a second round on 13 May.[3] The result was a victory for leftist politicians who later emerged as reformists.[4] The number of clerics elected to the Majlis was reduced by over a third.[5]

  1. ^ a b "1988 Parliamentary Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, archived from the original on 30 May 2012, retrieved 10 August 2015
  2. ^ a b Bahman Bakhtiari (1993), "Parliamentary elections in Iran", Iranian Studies, 24 (3–4), Routledge: 375–388, doi:10.1080/00210869308701808 – via Tandfonline (subscription required), By the end of September 1989, the radicals had close to 160 supporters, around 90 deputies belonged to the pragmatists' camp, the rest were "fence-sitters."
  3. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p. 68 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
  4. ^ Zandi, Mohammad Ali. "3rd Islamic Consultative Assembly elections" (in Persian). Baqir al-Ulum Research Institute. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ James W. Heslep The Decline of Clerics in the Iranian Majles Archived 12 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine