1998 Iranian Assembly of Experts election in Tehran Province

The third elections for the Assembly of Experts in Tehran Province was held on 23 October 1998^[1] to elect 16 representatives in the constituency. The result was a victory for the conservatives. Allied institutions the Combatant Clergy Association and the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom supported candidates jointly, while the Association of Combatant Clerics and the Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers whose most members were disqualified by the Guardian Council did not support any candidates. Executives of Construction Party was the only reformist group that competed in the election.

The voter turnout was declared 39.45% in the constituency.^[1]

Results edit

#	Candidate	Electoral list(s)			Votes	%	Notes
#	Candidate	ECP	CCA	SST	Votes	%	Notes
1	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	Y	Y	Y	1,682,882	60.10	Elected
2	Ali Meshkini	Y	Y	Y	1,240,524	44.30
3	Mohammad Reyshahri	Y	Y	Y	1,212,249	43.29
4	Mohammad Emami-Kashani	Y	Y	Y	1,179,566	42.12
5	Mohammad Yazdi		Y	Y	1,124,620	40.16
6	Ahmad Jannati		Y	Y	1,047,232	37.40
7	Mohammad-Reza Tavassoli	Y			931,845	33.28
8	Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi		Y	Y	889,065	31.75
9	Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi		Y	Y	882,672	31.52
10	Majid Ansari	Y			835,037	29.82
11	Mohsen Kharazi	Y	Y	Y	765,802	27.35
12	Bagher Asadi-Khonsari		Y	Y	764,633	27.31
13	Mohammad Mohammadi-Gilani	Y	Y	Y	693,173	24.75
14	Reza Ostadi		Y	Y	636,651	22.74
15	Mohsen Qomi	Y			633,774	22.63
16	Gholamreza Rezvani		Y	Y	606,735	21.67
	Mohammad-Javad Hojjati-Kermani	Y			Unknown		Defeated
	Ali Hojjati-Kermani	Y
	Mousavi-Bojnourdi	Y
	Saghafi	Y
	Ma'refat	Y
	Ghazizadeh	Y
	Marvi	Y
	Anvari		Y	Y
	Mohammad Momen		Y	Y
	Hossein Rasti-Kashani		Y	Y

Blank Votes					85,047	3.04
Invalid Votes					68,689	2.45
Total Votes					2,800,267	100
Source: Results via IRNA / lists via IRNA, Hamshahri and Hamshahri

^ ^a ^b Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 267. ISBN 9780815654322.