1996 Iranian legislative election

1996 Iranian legislative election
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All 270 seats of Islamic Consultative Assembly
135 seats needed for a majority
Registered34,716,000[1]
Turnout71.10%[1]
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani Gholamhossein Karbaschi Mehdi Karoubi
Party Combatant Clergy Association
and allies 		Executives of Construction
and allies 		Association of Combatant Clerics
and allies
Leader's seat Did not stand Did not stand Did not stand
Seats won 90≈150 60≈80 30≈80
National Consultative Assembly of Iran following the 1996 election
Composition of the Assembly following the election
Speaker before election

Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
CCA

Elected Speaker

Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
CCA

Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 8 March 1996, with a second round on 19 April.[2] The Combatant Clergy Association and its allies emerged as the largest bloc in the Majlis, winning 110 of the 270 seats.[2]

  1. ^ a b "1996 Parliamentary Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, archived from the original on 2012-05-30, retrieved 10 August 2015
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference OUP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).