1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in West Azerbaijan province

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

West Azerbaijan election

3 August 1979 (1979-08-03)

All 3 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Mohammad Beheshti Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou
Party IRP MPRP KDPI
Seats won
1 / 3
1 / 3
1 / 3

Location of the constituency within Iran

Each of the seats in the constituency went to a party. The Khomeinist candidate supported by the Islamic Republican Party was placed first, while the candidate endorsed by the Muslim People's Republic Party of Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari became second. The two Kurdish candidates who belonged to the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan ended up in the third and fourth places, and the party was able to secure a seat. The Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas' nominee received no more than 11% of the votes and was defeated.

Results

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1979 Constitutional Convention election: West Azerbaijan Province
Party Candidate Votes %
IRP Ali Akbar Ghoreishi[a] 152,428 46.88
MPRP Mohammad Fowzi 117,669 36.19
KDPI Abdolrahman Ghasemlou 113,773 34.99
KDPI Ghani Bolourian 103,087 31.70
IRP Ali-Akbar Ghaffari 101,215 31.13
Mollarahim Abbasi 50,802 15.62
Ghodratollah Atabak 39,936 12.28
OIPGF Mohammad-Anvar Soltani Boukani 34,628 10.65
Total votes 325,156 100
  1. ^ Also supported by Malek Ashtar Monotheistic Organization (sāzmān-e tohīdī-ye mālek-e aštar)
Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 39, p. 7, 7 August 1979

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