1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Khorasan Province

Khorasan election
August 1979 (1979-08)
All 7 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
Location of the constituency within Iran
Lists that won seats
  Majority party Minority party
 
Party Islamic Republican Party Mashhad's Eminent Proofs
Seats won
7 / 7
4 / 7
  Third party Fourth party
 
Party Movement of Militant Muslims Freedom Movement of Iran
Seats won
1 / 7
1 / 7
Defeated lsts

On 3 August 1979, Constitutional Convention election was held in Khorasan Province constituency with plurality-at-large voting format in order to decide seven seats for the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution

It resulted in a landslide victory for the Khomeinist candidates in the Coalition of Islamic Parties who swept all seats. They were followed by clerical rivals of Khomeini, including the leader of Hojjatieh, who were endorsed jointly by Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi and Mohammad al-Shirazi. The top four winning contenders were supported by both groupings, indicating that the former list had approximately twice number of supporters in comparison to the latter. The top candidate of the defeated Quintuple Coalition received no better than 5% of all votes cast, suppressing those supported by the Sunni community. Candidates of non-religious groups such as the left-wing Tudeh Party of Iran and the right-wing Nation Party of Iran could not receive more than a few thousand votes in their favor.

Result

1979 Constitutional Convention election: Khorasan Province
Party Candidate Votes %
IRP Mahmoud Rouhani[a] 949,923 89.44
IRP Javad Aghatehrani[a] 947,614 89.23
IRP Abolhassan Shirazi[a] 940,225 88.53
IRP Ali Falsafi[a] 906,888 85.39
IRP Jalaleddin Farsi 660,001 62.14
IRP Mohammad Khamenei 640,958 60.35
IRP Ali Tehrani[b][c] 559,639 52.69
— Mehdi Noghani[a] 366,532 34.51
Hojjatieh Mahmoud Halabi[a] 307,754 28.98
— Abbas-Ali Eslami[a] 284,581 26.80
PMOI Mansour Bazargan[d] 51,113 4.81
— Mahmoud Farhoudi[e] 33,067 3.11
— Shamseddin Motahari[f] 32,990 3.11
— Salaheddin Bayati[f] 30,822 2.90
— Ahmad Faroughi[f] 30,010 2.83
— Mohammad-Amin Yaghoubi Jami[f] 29,454 2.77
— Gholam-Ali Karimdari[f] 29,052 2.74
MMM Mahmoud Delasaei[d] 26,772 2.52
JAMA Mehdi Zarif-Asgari[d] 23,976 2.26
MPRP Fazel Bakhsheshi 7,722 0.73
Tudeh Party Ali Khavari 6,452 0.61
FMI Hossein Ansari 4,384 0.41
NPI Mahmoud Ardakanian 3,358 0.32
NPI Hossein Barazandeh[c] 2,145 0.20
— Javad Gholampour 876 0.08
— Mohammad Nakhaei 836 0.08
— Gholamhossein Tofighi 710 0.07
Total votes 1,062,044 100
  1. ^ a b c d e f g Supported by the electoral list 'Mashhad's Eminent Proofs [of God]' (āyāt-e ezām-e mašḥad).
  2. ^ Supported by the Movement of Militant Muslims
  3. ^ a b Supported by the Freedom Movement of Iran
  4. ^ a b c Supported by the Quintuple Coalition
  5. ^ Supported by Health professionals affiliated with the University of Mashhad
  6. ^ a b c d e Supported by the Sunni community (aḥl-e tasannon)
Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 42, p. 3, 9 August 1979

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