1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Zanjan province
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On 3 August 1979, a Constitutional Convention election was held in Zanjan Province (encompassing today's Qazvin Province) with plurality-at-large voting format in order to decide two seats for the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution.
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2 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution | |||||||||||||
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The result was a victory for the two candidates supported by the Islamic Republican Party while the candidate of the Combatant Clergy Association was placed third. Members of other parties such as the Muslim People's Republic Party, the Nation Party of Iran and JAMA (the latter endorsed by the Quintuple Coalition) were defeated and the only communist who ran in the constituency received the fewest votes cast.
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||||||
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| IRP | Hadi Barikbin[a] | 206,932 | 54.90 | ||||||||||
| IRP | Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani[a] | 204,461 | 54.24 | ||||||||||
| CCA | Seyyed Abbas Aboutorabi | 123,836 | 32.85 | ||||||||||
| MPRP | Mohammad-Esmail Saeini | 25,764 | 6.84 | ||||||||||
| NPI | Nasser Takmil Homayoun | 19,647 | 5.21 | ||||||||||
| JAMA | Hadi Motameni[b] | 12,179 | 3.23 | ||||||||||
| — | Shoja Ebrahim-Tavani | 1,784 | 0.47 | ||||||||||
| OSEWC | Ebrahim Nazari[c] | 747 | 0.20 | ||||||||||
| Total votes | 376,922 | 100 | |||||||||||
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| Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 42, p. 3, 9 August 1979 | |||||||||||||
