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 Composition of the Senate of Iran following the election. Royally appointed seats are shown in gray. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Composition of the Assembly following the election. All seats were won by the Rastakhiz Party, the only legal party at the time. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 20 June 1975. All 268 seats were won by the new monarchist party, the Rastakhiz Party. Voter turnout was 78.6%,[1] although according to official reports, for both houses, out of an electorate of 14 million, 70 percent (9.8 million) registered to vote and 78 percent of the electorate (about 7 million) cast its vote.[2]
This was the final election held under the rule of the Shah of Iran before the Iranian Revolution of 1979.[3]
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- ^ P. Bearman; Th. Bianquis; C.E. Bosworth; E. van Donzel; W.P. Heinrichs (1986). "Mad̲j̲lis". In W. Madelung; Rahman, Munibur; Landau, J. M.; Yapp, M.E.; Robinson, F.C.R. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. 5 (Second ed.). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0606. ISBN 9789004161214.