1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Khorasan Province

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Khorasan election

August 1979 (1979-08)

All 7 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution

Location of the constituency within Iran

Lists that won seats

	Majority party	Minority party

Party	Islamic Republican Party	Mashhad's Eminent Proofs
Seats won	7 / 7	4 / 7

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Movement of Militant Muslims	Freedom Movement of Iran
Seats won	1 / 7	1 / 7

Defeated lsts

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

It resulted in a landslide victory for the Khomeinist candidates in the Coalition of Islamic Parties who swept all seats. They were followed by clerical rivals of Khomeini, including the leader of Hojjatieh, who were endorsed jointly by Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi and Mohammad al-Shirazi. The top four winning contenders were supported by both groupings, indicating that the former list had approximately twice number of supporters in comparison to the latter. The top candidate of the defeated Quintuple Coalition received no better than 5% of all votes cast, suppressing those supported by the Sunni community. Candidates of non-religious groups such as the left-wing Tudeh Party of Iran and the right-wing Nation Party of Iran could not receive more than a few thousand votes in their favor.

Result

1979 Constitutional Convention election: Khorasan Province
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	IRP	Mahmoud Rouhani	949,923	89.44
	IRP	Javad Aghatehrani	947,614	89.23
	IRP	Abolhassan Shirazi	940,225	88.53
	IRP	Ali Falsafi	906,888	85.39
	IRP	Jalaleddin Farsi	660,001	62.14
	IRP	Mohammad Khamenei	640,958	60.35
	IRP	Ali Tehrani	559,639	52.69

	—	Mehdi Noghani	366,532	34.51
	Hojjatieh	Mahmoud Halabi	307,754	28.98
	—	Abbas-Ali Eslami	284,581	26.80
	PMOI	Mansour Bazargan	51,113	4.81
	—	Mahmoud Farhoudi	33,067	3.11
	—	Shamseddin Motahari	32,990	3.11
	—	Salaheddin Bayati	30,822	2.90
	—	Ahmad Faroughi	30,010	2.83
	—	Mohammad-Amin Yaghoubi Jami	29,454	2.77
	—	Gholam-Ali Karimdari	29,052	2.74
	MMM	Mahmoud Delasaei	26,772	2.52
	JAMA	Mehdi Zarif-Asgari	23,976	2.26
	MPRP	Fazel Bakhsheshi	7,722	0.73
	Tudeh Party	Ali Khavari	6,452	0.61
	FMI	Hossein Ansari	4,384	0.41
	NPI	Mahmoud Ardakanian	3,358	0.32
	NPI	Hossein Barazandeh	2,145	0.20
	—	Javad Gholampour	876	0.08
	—	Mohammad Nakhaei	836	0.08
	—	Gholamhossein Tofighi	710	0.07
Total votes			1,062,044	100
^ Supported by the electoral list 'Mashhad's Eminent Proofs ' (āyāt-e ezām-e mašḥad). Supported by the Movement of Militant Muslims ^ Supported by the Freedom Movement of Iran ^ Supported by the Quintuple Coalition Supported by Health professionals affiliated with the University of Mashhad ^ Supported by the Sunni community (aḥl-e tasannon)
Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 42, p. 3, 9 August 1979

References

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Electoral blocs	Great Islamic Coalition Quintuple Coalition Septuple Coalition Grand National Alliance
Related topics	Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran December 1979 Iranian constitutional referendum

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