1985 Iranian presidential election

16 August 1985

1989 →

Registered

25,993,802

Turnout

54.78% (

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President before election

Ali Khamenei
IRP

Elected President

Ali Khamenei
IRP

Presidential elections were held in Iran on 16 August 1985, and resulted in the re-election of the incumbent President Ali Khamenei.

Campaign

In July 1985, 50 people applied for the nomination, of whom only three were approved:

Ali Khamenei, the current president and candidate of the Islamic Republic Party.
Mahmoud Kashani, lawyer and independent candidate.
Habibollah Asgaroladi, former Minister of Commerce and candidate of the Islamic Coalition Party

The following candidates were disqualified by the Guardian Council:

1985 Iranian presidential election
Party		Candidate	Nohen et al		ISSDP
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Islamic Republican Party	Ali Khamenei	12,203,870	87.9	12,205,012	85.00
	Islamic Republican Party	Mahmoud Kashani	1,402,416	10.1	1,402,953	9.85
	Islamic Republican Party	Habibollah Asgaroladi	283,297	2.00	278,113	1.95
Blank or invalid votes			355,047	2.50	352,509	2.47
Totals			14,244,630	100	14,238,587	100

^ "1985 Presidential Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, retrieved 10 August 2015
Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 298. ISBN 1850431981.
Hiro, Dilip (2013). "Libertation Movement of Iran". A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Middle East. Interlink Publishing. ISBN 9781623710330.
^ Rabinovich, Itamar; Shaked, Haim (1988), "Khameneh'i Elected President for Second Term", Middle East Contemporary Survey: 1984–1985, vol. IX, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, pp. 425–426, ISBN 9780813374451
Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof (2001). "Iran". Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook. Vol. I. Oxford University Press. p. 76. ISBN 0-19-924958-X.

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