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The Iranian presidential election, 1980

Iranian presidential election, 1980
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25 January 1980 1981 →
  President of iran Abolhassan Banisadr.jpg Ahmad Madani by NLAI.jpg
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

Ahmad Madani

Hassan Habibi

Dariush Forouhar

Sadeq Tabatabaei

Kazem Sami

Sadegh Ghotbzadeh

Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as president.



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