1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Gilan province

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

Gilan election

3 August 1979 (1979-08-03)

All 3 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution

Location of the constituency within Iran
Defeated lsts

All seats went to Khomeinist candidates, who were affiliated with the Islamic Republican Party, the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom and the Combatant Clergy Association. The clerical candidate supported by the Freedom Movement of Iran was placed fourth, ahead of a People's Mujahedin of Iran member listed by the Quintuple Coalition. Communist candidates of different groups were also all defeated, though they received a higher percentage of votes in comparison to communists in other provinces.

Results

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1979 Constitutional Convention election: Gilan Province
Party Candidate Votes %
Seminary Teachers Mohammad-Mehdi Rabbani[a][b][c] 216,525 62.56
CCA Abdollah Ziaeinia[d] 207,628 59.99
IRP Hassan Azodi 159,397 46.05
FMI Zeinolabedin Ghorbani[e] 81,724 23.61
PMOI Shahbaz Shahbazi[f] 78,307 22.62
CCA Sadegh Ehsanbakhsh 56,715 16.39
OIPGF Mohammad-Reza Joshani Amlashi 41,861 12.09
Tudeh Party Mahmoud Etemadzadeh 19,884 5.74
Taher Khoshkholgh[f] 15,473 4.47
WW Hassan Hesam 12,641 3.65
Ebrahim Faghih-Mohammadi 9,376 2.71
Mehdi Zamiri 3,251 0.94
Abbas Daneshkhah 3,031 0.88
Mahmoud Aghajani Ghazimahalleh 2,567 0.74
NPI Khalil Khalilpour Darestani 1,994 0.58
WSI Masoumeh Zamiri 668 0.19
Total votes 346,114 100
  1. ^ Also supported by the Combatant Clergy Association.
  2. ^ Also supported by the Freedom Movement of Iran.
  3. ^ Also supported by the Islamic Republican Party.
  4. ^ Supported by Malek Ashtar Monotheistic Organization (sāzmān-e tohīdī-ye mālek-e aštar).
  5. ^ Also supported by the Movement of Muslim Women (neḥzat-e zanān-e mosalmān).
  6. ^ a b Supported by the Quintuple Coalition
Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 41, p. 3, 8 August 1979[permanent dead link]

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