Iranian legislative election, 1971

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All 268 seats in the Majlis
30 seats in the Senate

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Amir-Abbas Hoveyda	Asadollah Alam	Fazlollah Sadr
Party	New Iran Party	People's Party	Iranians' Party
Majlis seats	230	37	1
Seat change	50	6	1
Senate seats	28	2	0
Seat change	2	2

Prime Minister before election

Amir-Abbas Hoveyda
New Iran Party

Elected Prime Minister

Amir-Abbas Hoveyda
New Iran Party

Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 9 July 1971. The result was a victory for the New Iran Party, which won 230 of the 268 seats in the Majlis and 28 of the 30 elected seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was around 35%. The elections were boycotted by the Pan-Iranist Party, which complained that the government held a monopoly over campaign broadcasts on state radio and television, and also claimed that its newspaper had been censored. Its offshoot, Iranians' Party, won a seat by its secretary-general.

Following the elections, Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveyda formed a new government on 13 September.

The elections were "rigged and far from a legitimate process".

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