Iranian presidential election, 1980

25 January 1980

→ 1981



Nominee	Abolhassan Banisadr	Ahmad Madani
Party	Independent	Independent (Member of the NF)
Popular vote	10,709,330	2,224,554
Percentage	75.6%	15.71%

President before election

None

Elected President

Abolhassan Banisadr
Independent

None

Abolhassan Banisadr
Independent

The First Iranian presidential election was held on 25 January 1980. It was held one year after the Iranian Revolution when the Council of Islamic Revolution was in power. The number of the eligible voters in the country was 20,993,643. However, the number of the actual voter was 14,152,887, leading to the voter turnout of 67.4%.

The number of the candidates registered to run for the presidency was 124, but only 96 of them were allowed to run. There were only 8 candidates with ballot access and the rest of candidates were write-in.

Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as president.

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