1979_Iranian_constitutional_assembly_election_in_Gilan_Province

Gilan election
All 3 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
	Location of the constituency within Iran
Defeated lsts
	Quintuple Coalition; Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas; Tudeh Party of Iran; Worker's Way; Nation Party of Iran; Women's Society of Iran;

1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Gilan Province

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Quick Facts All 3 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution, Defeated lsts ...

All seats went to Khomeinist candidates, who were affiliated with the Islamic Republican Party, the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom and the Combatant Clergy Association. The clerical candidate supported by the Freedom Movement of Iran was placed fourth, ahead of a People's Mujahedin of Iran member listed by the Quintuple Coalition. Communist candidates of different groups were also all defeated, though they received a higher percentage of votes in comparison to communists in other provinces.

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Seminary Teachers	Mohammad-Mehdi Rabbani^{[lower-alpha 1]}^{[lower-alpha 2]}^{[lower-alpha 3]}	216,525	62.56
	CCA	Abdollah Ziaeinia^{[lower-alpha 4]}	207,628	59.99
	IRP	Hassan Azodi	159,397	46.05

	FMI	Zeinolabedin Ghorbani^{[lower-alpha 5]}	81,724	23.61
	PMOI	Shahbaz Shahbazi^{[lower-alpha 6]}	78,307	22.62
	CCA	Sadegh Ehsanbakhsh	56,715	16.39
	OIPGF	Mohammad-Reza Joshani Amlashi	41,861	12.09
	Tudeh Party	Mahmoud Etemadzadeh	19,884	5.74
	—	Taher Khoshkholgh^{[lower-alpha 6]}	15,473	4.47
	WW	Hassan Hesam	12,641	3.65
	—	Ebrahim Faghih-Mohammadi	9,376	2.71
	—	Mehdi Zamiri	3,251	0.94
	—	Abbas Daneshkhah	3,031	0.88
	—	Mahmoud Aghajani Ghazimahalleh	2,567	0.74
	NPI	Khalil Khalilpour Darestani	1,994	0.58
	WSI	Masoumeh Zamiri	668	0.19
Total votes			346,114	100
Also supported by the Combatant Clergy Association. Also supported by the Freedom Movement of Iran. Also supported by the Islamic Republican Party. Supported by Malek Ashtar Monotheistic Organization (sāzmān-e tohīdī-ye mālek-e aštar). Also supported by the Movement of Muslim Women (neḥzat-e zanān-e mosalmān). Supported by the Quintuple Coalition
Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 41, p. 3, 8 August 1979^{[permanent dead link]}

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