Quintuple Coalition

Quintuple Coalition
Founded1979
IdeologyRadicalism
ReligionIslam
Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
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The Quintuple Coalition refers to the electoral alliance of five revolutionary groups contesting in the 1979 Iranian Constitutional Convention election.[1] The groups in coalition had Islamic and radical orientations.[1][2] After the elections, the coalition sent an open letter to Ruhollah Khomeini and complained about "fraud".[2]

Parties in coalition

JAMA
JAMA
The Movement
People's Mujahedin Organization
Insignia of the groups in coalition

The five groups were:[1]

Candidates

On 18 July 1979, the coalition presented its candidates for all 10 seats in Tehran in an announcement published by Ayandegan.[6][7]

Constituency Candidate endorsed Votes % Rank Result
Tehran Mahmoud Taleghani 2,016,801 79.86 1st Won
Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri 1,560,970 61.81 4th Won
Ezzatollah Sahabi 1,449,713 57.41 6th Won
Asghar Sayyed Javadi[a] 298,360 11.81 11th Defeated
Massoud Rajavi[b] 297,707 11.79 12th Defeated
Abdolkarim Lahiji 179,798 7.12 14th Defeated
Habibollah Peyman[c] 164,644 6.52 15th Defeated
Nasser Katouzian[a] 110,859 4.39 21st Defeated
Tahereh Saffarzadeh[c] 101,778 4.03 22nd Defeated
Nezameddin Ghahari[d] 36,791 1.46 31st Defeated
East Azerbaijan Ahmad Hanifnejad[b] 76,173 8.47 13th Defeated
Hossein Khosrowshahi[b] 27,966 3.11 14th Defeated
Mousa Sheikhzadegan Did not run
Khorasan Taher Ahmadzadeh Did not run
Mansour Bazargan[b] 51,113 4.81 11th Defeated
Mahmoud Delasaei 26,772 2.52 18th Defeated
Sirous Sahami Did not run
Mohammad-Taghi Shariati Did not run
Mehdi Zarif-Asgari[d] 23,976 2.26 19th Defeated
Fars Hassan Asadi-Lari[d] Did not run
Javad Baraei[b] 39,466 6.42 8th Defeated
Morteza Kasraeian[d] 18,452 3.00 12th Defeated
Mohsen Mahlouji[d] 26,074 4.24 10th Defeated
Hamedan Davoud Milani Did not run
Yahya Naziri 8,583 2.38 5th Defeated
Zanjan Hadi Motameni[d] 12,179 3.23 6th Defeated
Karim Seyyed Javadi Did not run
Gilan Shahbaz Shahbazi[b] 78,307 22.62 5th Defeated
Taher Khoshkholgh 15,473 4.47 9th Defeated
Hadi Pourgol Did not run
Isfahan Jalaleddin Taheri 787,687 83.33 1st Won
Mohammad Ahmadi-Foroushani 137,623 14.56 6th Defeated
Aboutorab Nafisi 7,205 0.76 14th Defeated
Rahmatollah Khaleghi 10,466 1.11 13th Defeated
Semnan Hossein Kharrazi Did not run
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Ahmad Nourbakhsh 24,753 72.92 1st Won
Mazandaran Hassan Akbari-Marznak Defeated
Morad-Ali Zohari Defeated
Seifollah Kabirian[b] Defeated
Abouzar Vardasbi[b] Defeated
Mohammad-Reza Rouhani Did not run
  1. ^ a b Member of the Movement for Freedom
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Member of the People's Mujahedin Organization
  3. ^ a b Member of the Movement of Militant Muslims
  4. ^ a b c d e f Member of the JAMA

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Schirazi, Asghar (1998), The Constitution of Iran: Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic, I.B. Tauris, p. 32, ISBN 9781860642531
  2. ^ a b Grote, Rainer; Röder, Tilmann J.; El-Haj, Ali M. (2016). Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam After the Arab Spring. Oxford University Press. p. 832. ISBN 9780190627645.
  3. ^ Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 343. ISBN 9780815654322.
  4. ^ Daneshvar, Parviz (2016). Revolution in Iran. Springer. p. 138. ISBN 978-1349140626.
  5. ^ Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 345. ISBN 9780815654322.
  6. ^ Near East/North Africa Report, Joint Publications Research Service, vol. 2010, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1979, p. 13
  7. ^ Near East/North Africa Report, Joint Publications Research Service, vol. 2012, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1979, pp. 60–61