1984 Iranian legislative election
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All 270 seats of Islamic Consultative Assembly
136 seats needed for a majority
Registered24,143,498[1]
Turnout64.64%[1]
  First party
 
Leader Ali Khamenei
Party Islamic Republican Party
Leader since 1981
Leader's seat Did not stand
Last election 85
Seats won 130
Seat change Increase 45
Percentage 48.14%
National Consultative Assembly of Iran following the 1984 election
Composition of the Assembly following the election
Prime Minister before election

Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Islamic Republican Party

Elected Prime Minister

Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Islamic Republican Party

Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 15 April 1984, with a second round on 17 May.[2] The majority of seats were won by independents, whilst the Islamic Republican Party was the only party to win seats. Voter turnout was 65.1% in the first round.[3]

The Freedom Movement of Iran declared that it would boycott the elections after its headquarters was attacked and the authorities refused to permit the party to hold two seminars.[4]

Background

The election was held under conditions of severe sanctions on politic and economical sector as well as war with Iraq's Baathist government (Iran-Iraq War). This election was also first time since the 1979 revolution where only one political party was allowed to participate (as other political parties were banned and even dissolved before this election).

Conduct

The election was held under conditions of war with Iraq's Baathist government (Iran-Iraq War), caused many cities in border with Iraq were severely destroyed (or could not hold direct election). Therefore. this election was conducted with two ways :

  1. Direct national election (for areas that were not heavily affected by war and also for religious minorities seats)
  2. Indirect national election (for areas that were heavily affected by war -mainly in border with Iraq-)

Out of 193 constituencies, 187 (including 5 electoral districts for religious minorities ) hold direct election while the six others hold indirect elections. These six were :

  1. Mehran (Ilam & Mehran constituency) - Ilam Province
  2. Dehloran (Dehloran & Darreh Shahr constituency) - Ilam Province
  3. Abadeh (Abadeh constituency) - Fars Province
  4. Susangerd (Dasht-e-Azadegan constituency) - Khuzestan Province
  5. Khorramshahr (Khorramshahr constituency) - Khuzestan Province
  6. Qasr-e-Shirin (Qasr-e-Shirin & Sarpol-e-Zahab constituency) - Kermanshah Province

Results

130 seats were elected in second round.

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Islamic Republican Party 130 +45
Independents 140 0
Invalid/blank votes – – –
Total 15,815,986 100 270 0
Registered voters/turnout 24,300,000 65.1 – –
Source: Nohlen et al.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani remained in his position as Speaker of Majlis


By-elections

For second period of Majlis, five by-elections were held.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "1984 Parliamentary Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, archived from the original on 2012-05-30, retrieved 10 August 2015
  2. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p68 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
  3. ^ Nohlen et al., p69
  4. ^ Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 296. ISBN 1850431981.
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