1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Lorestan province
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2 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution | |||||||
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Location of the constituency within Iran |
On 3 August 1979, a Constitutional Convention election was held in Lorestan Province constituency with plurality-at-large voting format in order to decide two seats for the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution.
The result was a landslide victory for the Islamic Republican Party whose candidates received more than 90% of the votes. The candidate of the right-wing nationalist Nation Party of Iran was placed third.
Results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||||||
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IRP | Hassan Taheri Khorramabadi | 238,205 | 94.40 | ||||||||||
IRP | Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani | 233,920 | 92.70 | ||||||||||
NPI | Khosrow Khosravi | 6,405 | 2.54 | ||||||||||
— | Issa Farrokhpour | 6,227 | 2.47 | ||||||||||
— | Mohammad-Bagher Abbasi | 2,182 | 0.86 | ||||||||||
— | Hassan Nazemi | 1,502 | 0.60 | ||||||||||
MPRP | Air-Hossein Tajbakhsh | 508 | 0.20 | ||||||||||
Total votes | 252,339 | 100 | |||||||||||
Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 42, p. 3, 9 August 1979 |