1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Isfahan Province

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

Isfahan election
3 August 1979 (1979-08-03)
All 4 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
Location of the constituency within Iran
Coalitions that won seats
 
Alliance Coalition of Islamic Parties Quintuple Coalition
Seats won
4 / 4
1 / 4
Defeated lsts

The Islamic Republican Party won. Because of conflicts and the major support the People's Mujahedin of Iran received among different minorities and Iranian sectors, Ayatollah Khomeini published a fatwa that prevented the group from taking part in elections of the new government.[1][2]

Unlike other provinces, the constituency was not contested by groups such as the Freedom Movement of Iran or the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas.

Results
1979 Constitutional Convention election: Isfahan Province
Party Candidate Votes %
IRP Jalaleddin Taheri[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4][lower-alpha 5][lower-alpha 6][lower-alpha 7][lower-alpha 8][lower-alpha 9] 787,687 83.33
IRP Ali-Akbar Parvaresh[lower-alpha 6][lower-alpha 7][lower-alpha 9][lower-alpha 10][lower-alpha 11] 710,726 75.19
IRP Hossein Khademi[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 11][lower-alpha 10] 585,302 61.92
IRP Hassan Ayat[lower-alpha 12][lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 6][lower-alpha 10][lower-alpha 8] 479,818 50.76
CCA Mohammad Emami-Kashani 158,905 16.81
QC Mohammad Ahmadi-Foroushani 137,623 14.56
— Ahmad Salamatian[lower-alpha 6][lower-alpha 10][lower-alpha 7] 137,022 14.50
CCA Ahmad Faghih-Emami[lower-alpha 9][lower-alpha 10] 63,484 6.72
CCA Mohammad-Ali Movahed Abtahi[lower-alpha 10] 51,858 5.49
— Ahmad Ghazanfarpour[lower-alpha 6][lower-alpha 7] 50,932 5.39
CCA Hassan Safi[lower-alpha 10] 48,075 5.09
— Javad Gharavi 28,489 3.01
QC Rahmatollah Khaleghi[lower-alpha 11] 10,466 1.11
MPRP Aboutorab Nafisi 7,205 0.76
— Hassan Faghih-Emami 5,485 0.58
Tudeh Party Hossein Azar 5,118 0.54
NPI Ahmad Gheisari-Esfehanai 3,838 0.41
QC Abolfazl Mirshams-Shahshahani 3,019 0.32
NPI Ahmad Yaraghi 1,951 0.21
JC Asghar Tofangsaz 1,815 0.19
— Mostafa Shahrtash 1,752 0.19
— Hossein Aghasharif 1,089 0.12
— Mohammad-Bagher Farani 1,054 0.11
— Mohammad-Bagher Khalesi 755 0.08
— Hossein Morvarid 432 0.05
Total votes 945,285 100
  1. Supported by the Quintuple Coalition
  2. Supported by the Combatant Clergy Association
  3. Supported by Malek Ashtar Monotheistic Organization (sāzmān-e tohīdī-ye mālek-e aštar).
  4. Supported by the Organization of Holy Warriors in the Path of Truth (sāzmān-e mojāhedān-e rāḥ-e ḥaq).
  5. Supported by the Guerillas of the Oppressed (čerikhā-ye mostazʾafin).
  6. Supported by the Islamic Trade Union of the Esfahan Steel Company (etteḥād-e eslāmī-e kār-e zob-e āḥan-e esfahān).
  7. Supported by the Muslim Students of the University of Isfahan.
  8. Supported by the Organization of the Defenders of Monotheism (sāzmān-e modāfeʾān-e toḥīd).
  9. Supported by the Society for Preserving Unity (jamʾīyyat-e ḥāfez-e vahdat).
  10. Supported by the Society of Esfahan Engineers (jameʾe-ye moḥandesīn-e esfaḥān).
  11. Supported by the Islamic Freedom-seekers Group (goruḥ-e āzādīḵāḥān-e eslāmi).
  12. Supported by the Movement of Muslim Women (neḥzat-e zanān-e mosalmān).
Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 40, p. 3, 7 August 1979

References
  1. Cohen, Ronen (2009). The Rise and Fall of the Mojahedin Khalq, 1987-1997: Their Survival After the Islamic Revolution and Resistance to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Sussex Academic Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-1845192709.
  2. Katzman, Kenneth (2001). "Iran: The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran". In Benliot, Albert V. (ed.). Iran: Outlaw, Outcast, Or Normal Country?. Nova. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-56072-954-9.
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