Iranian legislative election, 1980

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14 March and 9 May 1980

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All 270 seats to the National Consultative Assembly
136 seats are needed for a majority

Registered

20,758,391

Turnout

52.14%

	Third party	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Mohammad Beheshti	Abolhassan Banisadr	Mehdi Bazargan
Alliance	Grand Coalition	President Office	Eponym Group
Leader's seat	Did not Stand	Did not Stand	Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat
Seats won	85	33	20
Percentage	31.48%	12.12%	7.40%


Leader	Karim Sanjabi	Masoud Rajavi	Noureddin Kianouri
Party	National Front	People's Mujahedin	Tudeh Party
Leader's seat	Kermanshah (withdrew)	Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat (defeated)	Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat (defeated)
Seats won	4	0	0
Percentage	1.48%	0%	0%

Elected Prime Minister

Mohammad-Ali Rajai
Islamic Republican Party

Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 13 March 1980, with a second round on 9 May. They were the first elections to the Majlis since the overthrow of the Shah, and were contested to a considerable degree on a party basis.

It resulted in a victory for the Islamic Republican Party, which won 85 of the 270 seats, whilst its allies who a further 45. The party, joined by smaller Islamist groups in the Grand coalition was a highly organized force and put up candidates in most constituencies and dominated the campaigns, especially in the provinces.

President Abolhassan Banisadr and his followers, presented dozens of candidates in Tehran and provinces under the list Office for the Cooperation of the People with the President.

Freedom Movement of Iran which lost the chance to organize effectively, fielded at most only 40 candidates under the banner of Eponym Group and won about 20 seats.

Among National Front candidates, four won the election but their credentials was rejected on the grounds such as being "landlord" or "American agent" and they did not take seat. Its leader Karim Sanjabi withdrew in the run-off because of the alleged "irregularities".

Under the name Progressive Revolutionary Candidates list, People's Mujahedin of Iran endorsed 127 nominees nationwide and the official counts gave them as much as 20% of the votes in some constituencies, however they failed to win any seats. Its leader Massoud Rajavi received 531,943 votes in Tehran but was defeated in the run-offs.

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