Iranian Constitutional Convention election, 1979

← 1967

3 August 1979

All 73 seats to the Assembly of Experts for Constitution

Registered

20,857,391

Turnout

51.71%

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Mohammad Beheshti	Mehdi Bazargan	Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
Party	Islamic Republican Party	Freedom Movement	Muslim People's Republic Party
Leader's seat	Tehran	Did not stand	Did not stand
Seats won	55≈58	6≈8	4≈7

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou	Masoud Rajavi	Noureddin Kianouri
Party	Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan	People's Mujahedin	Tudeh Party
Leader's seat	West Azerbaijan	Tehran (defeated)	Tehran (defeated)
Seats won	1	0	0

Constitutional Convention elections were held in Iran on 3 August 1979. The result was a victory for the Islamic Republican Party. 10,784,932 voted in the elections, marking 51.71% turnout. Of all members elected, 68% were clerics.

The new constitution drawn up by the body was approved by the voters in a referendum in December.

Several parties including National Front and National Democratic Front boycotted the elections in protest to the new press law, the result of which was to close many newspapers. They also protested the election method, in which the voters should write names of the candidates on the ballot slips. They regarded it questionable, considering the high rate of illiteracy at the time.

Some of the defeated leftist candidates include:

...
Wikipedia