Eponym Group

The Eponym Group (Persian: گروه همنام; Hamnam) was an electoral list for the 1980 Iranian legislative election claiming "it would choose its candidates based on merit without regard to party affiliation".[1] Close to the Freedom Movement, the group formed a minority in the parliament with approximately 15 to 23 seats.[2] Due to internal conflicts, the Freedom Movement did not issue a list but its members were included in the Eponym list. The list had members of Freedom Movement, JAMA and Islamic Republican Party.[1]

The Eponym Group
FounderMehdi Bazargan[1]
Yadollah Sahabi[1]
Mohammad-Taqi Shariati[1]
Abolfazl Zanjani[1]
Founded2 February 1980[1]
ReligionIslam

Election results
Constituency Candidate 1st round 2nd round
Votes % Rank Result Votes % Rank Result
Tehran,
Rey &
Shemiranat		 Hassan Habibi 1,552,478 72.7 2nd Won
Mehdi Bazargan 1,447,316 67.8 3rd Won
Ali Akbar Moinfar 1,439,360 67.4 4th Won
Mohammad Ali Rajai 1,209,012 56.6 12th Won
Ebrahim Yazdi 1,128,304 52.9 15th Won
Mostafa Chamran 1,100,842 51.5 17th Won
Ezatollah Sahabi 1,070,929 50.2 18th Won
Yadollah Sahabi 868,745 40.7 20th Run-off 817,819 50 5th Won
Hashem Sabbaghian 804,411 37.7 23rd Run-off 692,633 42.4 11th Won
Mohammad Tavasoli 747,666 35.1 24th Run-off 618,924 37.9 15th Defeated
Fathollah Banisadr 581,337 27.2 36th Run-off 609,172 37.3 16th Defeated
Abdolali Bazargan 455,727 21.4 42nd Run-off 581,730 35.6 18th Defeated
Mostafa Katiraei 385,201 18 48th Defeated
Ali Sadeghi-Tehrani 364,950 17.1 51st Defeated
Ali-Asghar Behzadnia 207,869 9.7 72nd Defeated
Jalaleddin Ashtiani 129,147 6.05 88th Defeated
Ali Danesh-Monfared 128,553 6.02 89th Defeated
Mahmoud Manian 100,856 4.72 89th Defeated

References
  1. Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. pp. 283–286. ISBN 1850431981.
  2. Bahman Bakhtiari (1996). Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics. University Press of Florida. p. 69. ISBN 0813014611.


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