1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Gilan province

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
Quintuple Coalition Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas Tudeh Party of Iran Worker's Way Nation Party of Iran Women's Society of Iran

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.

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

1979 Constitutional Convention election: Gilan Province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Seminary Teachers	Mohammad-Mehdi Rabbani	216,525	62.56
	CCA	Abdollah Ziaeinia	207,628	59.99
	IRP	Hassan Azodi	159,397	46.05
	FMI	Zeinolabedin Ghorbani	81,724	23.61
	PMOI	Shahbaz Shahbazi	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	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
Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 41, p. 3, 8 August 1979