1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Lorestan province

Lorestan election
3 August 1979 (1979-08-03)
2 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
Alliance Coalition of Islamic Parties
Seats won
2 / 2
Location of the constituency within Iran

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

The result was a landslide victory for the Islamic Republican Party whose candidates received more than 90% of the votes. The candidate of the right-wing nationalist Nation Party of Iran was placed third.

Results

1979 Constitutional Convention election: Lorestan Province
Party Candidate Votes %
IRP Hassan Taheri Khorramabadi 238,205 94.40
IRP Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani 233,920 92.70
NPI Khosrow Khosravi 6,405 2.54
— Issa Farrokhpour 6,227 2.47
— Mohammad-Bagher Abbasi 2,182 0.86
— Hassan Nazemi 1,502 0.60
MPRP Air-Hossein Tajbakhsh 508 0.20
Total votes 252,339 100
Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 42, p. 3, 9 August 1979

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