On 3 August 1979, a Constitutional Convention election was held in Gilan Province constituency with plurality-at-large voting format in order to decide three seats for the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution.
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All 3 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution | ||
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 Location of the constituency within Iran | ||
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All seats went to Khomeinist candidates, who were affiliated with the Islamic Republican Party, the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom and the Combatant Clergy Association. The clerical candidate supported by the Freedom Movement of Iran was placed fourth, ahead of a People's Mujahedin of Iran member listed by the Quintuple Coalition. Communist candidates of different groups were also all defeated, though they received a higher percentage of votes in comparison to communists in other provinces.
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||||||
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| Seminary Teachers | Mohammad-Mehdi Rabbani[a][b][c] | 216,525 | 62.56 | ||||||||||
| CCA | Abdollah Ziaeinia[d] | 207,628 | 59.99 | ||||||||||
| IRP | Hassan Azodi | 159,397 | 46.05 | ||||||||||
| FMI | Zeinolabedin Ghorbani[e] | 81,724 | 23.61 | ||||||||||
| PMOI | Shahbaz Shahbazi[f] | 78,307 | 22.62 | ||||||||||
| CCA | Sadegh Ehsanbakhsh | 56,715 | 16.39 | ||||||||||
| OIPGF | Mohammad-Reza Joshani Amlashi | 41,861 | 12.09 | ||||||||||
| Tudeh Party | Mahmoud Etemadzadeh | 19,884 | 5.74 | ||||||||||
| — | Taher Khoshkholgh[f] | 15,473 | 4.47 | ||||||||||
| WW | Hassan Hesam | 12,641 | 3.65 | ||||||||||
| — | Ebrahim Faghih-Mohammadi | 9,376 | 2.71 | ||||||||||
| — | Mehdi Zamiri | 3,251 | 0.94 | ||||||||||
| — | Abbas Daneshkhah | 3,031 | 0.88 | ||||||||||
| — | Mahmoud Aghajani Ghazimahalleh | 2,567 | 0.74 | ||||||||||
| NPI | Khalil Khalilpour Darestani | 1,994 | 0.58 | ||||||||||
| WSI | Masoumeh Zamiri | 668 | 0.19 | ||||||||||
| Total votes | 346,114 | 100 | |||||||||||
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| Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 41, p. 3, 8 August 1979[permanent dead link] | |||||||||||||
