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2006 Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr by-election

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2006 Tehran by-election

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The vacant seats for Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Triggered by resignation of Davoud Danesh-Jafari and Manouchehr Mottaki
 
Candidate Hassan Ghafourifard Soheila Jolodarzadeh Asadollah Badamchian
Party ICP ILP ICP
Popular vote 452,801 445,834 294,861
Percentage 21.44% 17.82% 13.96%

Subsequent MPs

Hassan Ghafourifard
Soheila Jolodarzadeh

A by-election for the Islamic Consultative Assembly's constituency Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr was held on 15 December 2006, to fill two vacancies caused by resignation of Davoud Danesh-Jafari and Manouchehr Mottaki, who were appointed as finance and foreign ministers respectively. The voters in Tehran cast their ballots along with the nationwide Assembly of Experts election and the Tehran City Council election.[1]

The two seats went to conservative Hassan Ghafourifard and reformist Soheila Jolodarzadeh, who were placed the first and the second respectively in a plurality-at-large voting system.[1]

Results

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The top sixteen candidates who ran for the seats, were:

# Candidate Party Votes %
1 Hassan Ghafourifard Islamic Coalition Party 452,801 21.44
2 Soheila Jolodarzadeh Islamic Labour Party 445,834 17.82
3 Asadollah Badamchian Islamic Coalition Party 294,861 13.96
4 Seyyed Ali-Akbar Mousavi-Hosseini Combatant Clergy Association 124,058 5.81
5 Seyyed Hassan Mousavi-Tabrizi Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers 56,587 2.68
6 Mohammad Beheshti 56,239 2.66
7 Saeid Sadeghi Development and Justice Party 45,479 2.15
8 Zahra Soleimani 44,895 2.13
9 Saeed Rajaee Khorasani Independence Party of Iran 43,253 2.05
10 Leili Ahmadi 40,346 1.91
11 Mohammad-Hossein Tavakkoli 38,056 1.80
12 Ebrahim Azarpeyvand 32,700 1.55
13 Mahmoud Saber-Hamishegi Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution 32,132 1.52
14 Mahmoud Ebrahimi 30,935 1.47
15 Hossein Rezakhah Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude 26,418 1.25
16 Gholamreza Arefnasab 26,376 1.25
Total Votes 2,111,037 100
Source: ISNA

References

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  1. ^ a b "Iran Report", Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, vol. 10, no. 1, 3 January 2007, retrieved 15 March 2021