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Markazi election
3 August 1979 (1979-08-03)
2 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
Alliance Coalition of Islamic Parties
Seats won 2 / 2

On 3 August 1979, a Constitutional Convention election was held in Markazi Province (encompassing today's Qom Province) with plurality-at-large voting format in order to decide two seats for the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution.

Only four candidates, who were all clerics, ran for the two seats. It resulted in a victory for the candidates supported by the Islamic Republican Party and its allies, in absence of their rival parties. Sadegh Khalkhali who also ran for a seat in Tehran Province at the same time (both without support of the Coalition of Islamic Parties), ended up in the third place.

Results

1979 Constitutional Convention election: Markazi Province
Party Candidate Votes %
Seminary Teachers Morteza Haeri Yazdi 392,491 93.17
Seminary Teachers Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani 259,537 61.61
CCA Sadegh Khalkhali 90,680 21.53
— Mohammad Ale Eshaq 60,098 14.27
Total votes 421,248 100
  1. ^ Supported by the Combatant Clergy Association
  2. ^ Supported by the Islamic Republican Party
Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Ettela'at, no. 15922, p. 2, 6 August 1979

References

Pahlavi dynasty 1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election
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