Iranian legislative election, 1952

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76 seats to the National Consultative Assembly

	First party	Second party

Leader	Mohammad Mosaddegh	Reza Radmanesh
Party	Parties Iran Party Toilers Party Society of Muslim Warriors Nation Party Party of the Iranian People	Tudeh Party
Alliance	NF	—
Leader's seat	Did not stand
Last election	8	0
Seats won	30	0
Seat change	22

Prime Minister before election

Mohammad Mosaddegh
NF

Elected Prime Minister

Mohammad Mosaddegh
NF

Parliamentary elections were held in Iran in 1952 to elect the 17th Iranian Majlis.

The elections were held by Government of Mosaddegh, who championed free elections and tried to minimize fraud by changing several governor-generals and governors. He also ordered members of the electoral supervisory councils to be selected by lot. However, the government was unable to control the shah, Artesh, the notables, and some of its own supporters. The voting process was stopped by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh after enough MPs were elected to form a parliamentary quorum (76 out of 136). The National Front won 30 seats, whilst Royalists won 49. The decision is viewed as manipulation, because Mosaddegh meant to prevent opposition candidates taking seat from rural areas.

Historian Ervand Abrahamian, in an interview with Democracy Now!, said U.S. State Department documents declassified in 2017 reveal that their strategy was to undermine Mohammad Mosaddegh through parliament and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spent lot of money to get their 18 favorable candidates elected.

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