1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Zanjan Province

Zanjan election

3 August 1979 (1979-08-03)


Alliance	Coalition of Islamic Parties	Quintuple Coalition	Septuple Coalition
Seats won	2 / 2	0 / 2	0 / 2

The result was a victory for the two candidates supported by the Islamic Republican Party while the candidate of the Combatant Clergy Association was placed third. Members of other parties such as the Muslim People's Republic Party, the Nation Party of Iran and JAMA (the latter endorsed by the Quintuple Coalition) were defeated and the only communist who ran in the constituency received the fewest votes cast.

Results

1979 Constitutional Convention election: Zanjan Province
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	IRP	Hadi Barikbin^[a]	206,932	54.90
	IRP	Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani^[a]	204,461	54.24

	CCA	Seyyed Abbas Aboutorabi	123,836	32.85
	MPRP	Mohammad-Esmail Saeini	25,764	6.84
	NPI	Nasser Takmil Homayoun	19,647	5.21
	JAMA	Hadi Motameni^[b]	12,179	3.23
	—	Shoja Ebrahim-Tavani	1,784	0.47
	OSEWC	Ebrahim Nazari^[c]	747	0.20
Total votes			376,922	100
^ ^a ^b Also supported by the Combatant Clergy Association. ^ Supported by the Quintuple Coalition. ^ Supported by the Septuple Coalition.
Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 42, p. 3, 9 August 1979

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Electoral blocs	Great Islamic Coalition Quintuple Coalition Septuple Coalition Grand National Alliance
Related topics	Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran December 1979 Iranian constitutional referendum

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