1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Khuzestan province

On 3 August 1979, a Constitutional Convention election was held in Khuzestan province constituency with plurality-at-large voting format in order to decide four seats for the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution.

Khuzestan election

3 August 1979 (1979-08-03)
All 4 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
Location of the constituency within Iran
Lists that won seats
Majority party Minority party   Party Islamic Republican Party Movement of Militant Muslims Seats won 3 / 4 3 / 4   Third party Fourth party   Party Freedom Movement of Iran Combatant Clergy Association Seats won 1 / 4 1 / 4
Defeated lsts
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas Nation Party of Iran Revolutionary Organization Tudeh Party of Iran Socialist Workers' Party of Iran

The Islamic Republican Party was able to secure three of the seats (two of whom endorsed by the Movement of Militant Muslims), while the fourth winner was only supported by the Movement of Militant Muslims. They were followed by the defeated candidate who was endorsed by both the Combatant Clergy Association and the Freedom Movement of Iran in fifth place. Several communists who belonged to groups advocating different lines (Maoism, Trotskyism and pro-Soviet) also contested in the election but were all defeated by a wide margin. The two candidates of the right-wing Nation Party of Iran received less than 1% of the votes.

Results

1979 Constitutional Convention election: Khuzestan province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	IRP	Mohammad Kiavash	411,647	23.51
	IRP	Mohammad Karami	397,595	22.71
	IRP	Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri	313,118	17.89
	MMM	Mohammad Rashidian	273,489	15.62
	FMI	Ali Shafiei	98,882	5.65
	IRP	Abolghassem Sattarian	64,239	3.67
	CCA	Issa Tarsi	35,604	2.03
	OIPGF	Nasim Khaksar	35,017	2.00
	—	Mehdi Tadayyon	32,398	1.85
	OIPGF	Nasrollah Khaksar	28,137	1.61
	CCA	Mohammad-Kazem Danesh	25,347	1.45
	FMI	Khodamorad Haddadi	13,086	0.75
	—	Rahim Bani-Assad	12,206	0.70
	RO	Abbas Saberi	6,402	0.37
	NPI	Gholam-Hossein Dehdashti	4,626	0.26
	Tudeh Party	Ali-Akbar Mayelzadeh	4,500	0.26
	NPI	Khosrow Panahi	1,911	0.11
	—	Hamid Nezarat	494	0.03
	SWPI	Abdolhamid Shahrabi	418	0.02
Total votes			1,750,663	100
Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 39, p. 7, 7 August 1979