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1980 Iranian presidential election

25 January 1980 July 1981 →
Registered	20,993,643
Turnout	67.42%
Nominee Abolhassan Banisadr Ahmad Madani Party Independent Independent Popular vote 10,709,330 2,224,554 Percentage 75.6% 15.71%
Elected President Abolhassan Banisadr Independent

Presidential elections were held for the first time in Iran on 25 January 1980, one year after the Iranian Revolution when the Council of the Islamic Revolution was in power. Abolhassan Banisadr was elected president with 76% of the vote.

Candidates

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

Candidates with ballot access

Party nominees

• Hassan Habibi (Islamic Republican Party)
• Dariush Forouhar (Nation Party)
• Kazem Sami (JAMA)

Non-partisan candidates

• Abolhassan Banisadr
• Ahmad Madani (National Front member)
• Sadeq Tabatabaei (Freedom Movement member)
• Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (Freedom Movement member)
• Mohammad Mokri (National Front member)

Withdrew

• Hassan Ayat (Independent; Islamic Republican Party member), endorsed Jalaleddin Farsi
• Jalaleddin Farsi (Islamic Republican Party nominee), ineligible to run for the office due to his Afghan origin
• Sadegh Khalkhali (Independent), endorsed Abolhassan Banisadr
• Massoud Rajavi (People's Mujahedin of Iran nominee), forced to withdraw for opposing the Islamic Republic constitution

Declined to run

• Ruhollah Khomeini, incumbent Supreme Leader of Iran
• Mohammad Beheshti, incumbent Chief Justice of Iran
• Mehdi Bazargan, former Prime Minister of Iran

Endorsements

Election results

Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as president.

Nationwide

Tehran

References

1. ^ "1980 Presidential Election". Iran Social Science Data Portal. Princeton University. Archived from the original on 4 March 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
2. ^ "First Term of Presidential Elections; 25 January 1980" [اولین دوره انتخابات ریاست جمهوری؛ 5 بهمن 1358] (in Persian). Islamic Revolution Document Center. 30110. Archived from the original on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
3. ^ 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. Archived from the original on 31 October 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
4. Ervand Abrahamian (1989), Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin, Society and culture in the modern Middle East, vol. 3, I.B.Tauris, p. 198, ISBN 9781850430773
5. Entessar, Nader. "Kurdish Politics in Regional Context". In Kurdish Politics in the Middle East. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. p. 44. ISBN 0739140396, 9780739140390
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