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West Azerbaijan election

3 August 1979 (1979-08-03)
All 3 Seats to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Mohammad Beheshti Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou Party IRP MPRP KDPI Seats won 1 / 3 1 / 3 1 / 3
Location of the constituency within Iran

On 3 August 1979, Constitutional Convention election was held in West Azerbaijan Province constituency with plurality-at-large voting format in order to decide three seats for the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution.

Each of the seats in the constituency went to a party. The Khomeinist candidate supported by the Islamic Republican Party was placed first, while the candidate endorsed by the Muslim People's Republic Party of Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari became second. The two Kurdish candidates who belonged to the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan ended up in the third and fourth places, and the party was able to secure a seat. The Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas' nominee received no more than 11% of the votes and was defeated.

Results

References

v t e 1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election
Results	Tehran Khorasan East Azerbaijan Mazandaran Khuzestan Isfahan Fars West Azerbaijan Gilan Markazi Kerman Kermanshahan Hamedan Zanjan Lorestan Kordestan Sistan and Baluchestan Bushehr Semnan Yazd Hormozgan Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Ilam Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Armenians Assyrians Jews Zoroastrians
Electoral blocs	Great Islamic Coalition Quintuple Coalition Septuple Coalition Grand National Alliance
Related topics	Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran December 1979 Iranian constitutional referendum

• 1979 elections in Iran
• West Azerbaijan province