Iranian presidential election, 1980

Iranian presidential election, 1980
25 January 1980
 
Nominee Abolhassan Banisadr Ahmad Madani Hassan Habibi
Party Independent Independent IRP
Popular vote 10,709,330 2,224,554 674,859
Percentage 75.6% 15.71% 3.35%
President before election

None

 Elected President

Abulhassan 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.[1] However, the number of the actual voter was 14,152,887, leading to the voter turnout of 67.4%.[1][2]

Candidates

The number of the candidates registered to run for the presidency was 124, but only 96 of them were allowed to run.[1] There were only 8 candidates with ballot access and the rest of candidates were write-in.[3]

Candidates with ballot access

Party nominees[3]
Non-partisan candidates[3]

Withdrew

Declined to run

Endorsements

Organization Candidate
Combatant Clergy Association Abolhassan Banisadr[3]
Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom Hassan Habibi (Replaced Abolhassan Banisadr)[3]
Islamic Republican Party Hassan Habibi (Replaced Jalaleddin Farsi)[3]
Freedom Movement of Iran None[3]
Tudeh Party of Iran Hassan Habibi[4]
Nation Party of Iran Dariush Forouhar[3]
Revolutionary Movement of Muslim People of Iran Kazem Sami[3]
People's Mujahedin of Iran Abolhassan Banisadr (Replaced Massoud Rajavi)[5]
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan None (Initially Massoud Rajavi)[6]
Organization of People's Fedaian Majority and Minority None (Initially Massoud Rajavi)[7]
Movement of Militant Muslims None[4]
Socialist Workers' Party of Iran Babak Zahraei[4]
Fada'iyan-e Islam Abolhassan Banisadr[4]
Islamic Association of Teachers of Iran Abolhassan Banisadr[4]

Election results

Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as president.

Nationwide

Party Candidate Votes Percentage
Independent Abolhassan Banisadr 10,709,330 75.6%
Independent (National Front member) Ahmad Madani 2,224,554 15.71%
Islamic Republican Party nominee Hassan Habibi 674,859 3.35%
Nation Party nominee Dariush Forouhar 133,478 0.94%
Independent (Freedom Movement member) Sadeq Tabatabaei 114,776 0.81%
JAMA nominee Kazem Sami 89,270 0.63%
Independent (Freedom Movement member) Sadegh Ghotbzadeh 48,547 0.34%
Other candidates 2,110 0.01%
Valid votes 13,994,814 98.95%
Blank or invalid votes 151,806
Totals 14,146,620 100.00%
Voter turnout 67.42%
Sources:
  • Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof (2001). "Iran". Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook. I. Oxford University Press. p. 75. ISBN 0-19-924958-X. 
  • "1980 Presidential Election". Princeton University. Retrieved 15 February 2013. 

Tehran

# Candidate Votes[3]
1Abolhassan Banisadr1,833,197
2Ahmad Madani553,557
3Hassan Habibi90,228
4Sadeq Tabatabaei28,676
5Kazem Sami24,676
6Dariush Forouhar22,221
7Sadegh Ghotbzadeh12,207
8Mohammad Mokri299
9Mahmoud Seirafizadeh169
Others<100

References

  1. 1 2 3 "1980 Presidential Election". Princeton University. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  2. ↑ Buchta, Wilfried (2000). Who rules Iran? (PDF). The Washington Institute and The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. p. 19.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "First Term of Presidential Elections; 25 January 1980" [اولین دوره انتخابات ریاست جمهوری؛ 5 بهمن 1358] (in Persian). Islamic Revolution Document Center. 30110. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Fattah Gholami (25 January 2015). "How the First Term of Presidential Elections Was Held" [اولین انتخابات ریاست جمهوری چگونه برگزار شد] (in Persian). Jaam-e Jam. 383451. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  5. ↑ Baktiari, Bahman. Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics. University Press of Florida, 1996. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-8130-1461-6.
  6. ↑ Entessar, Nader. “Kurdish Politics in Regional Context”. In Kurdish Politics in the Middle East. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. p. 44. ISBN 0739140396, 9780739140390
  7. ↑ Parsa, Misagh (1989), Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution, Rutgers University Press, p. 255, ISBN 0813514126


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