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1998 Iranian Assembly of Experts election in Tehran province

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1998 Assembly of Experts election

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Turnout39.45%
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Mahdavi Kani & Yazdi Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Party Combatant Clergy Association & Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom Executives of Construction Party
Seats won
13 / 16
9 / 16

The third elections for the Assembly of Experts in Tehran Province was held on 23 October 1998[1] to elect 16 representatives in the constituency. The result was a victory for the conservatives. Allied institutions the Combatant Clergy Association and the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom supported candidates jointly, while the Association of Combatant Clerics and the Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers whose most members were disqualified by the Guardian Council did not support any candidates. Executives of Construction Party was the only reformist group that competed in the election.

The voter turnout was declared 39.45% in the constituency.[1]

Results

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# Candidate Electoral list(s) Votes % Notes
ECP CCA SST
1 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani checkY checkY checkY 1,682,882 60.10 Elected
2 Ali Meshkini checkY checkY checkY 1,240,524 44.30
3 Mohammad Reyshahri checkY checkY checkY 1,212,249 43.29
4 Mohammad Emami-Kashani checkY checkY checkY 1,179,566 42.12
5 Mohammad Yazdi checkY checkY 1,124,620 40.16
6 Ahmad Jannati checkY checkY 1,047,232 37.40
7 Mohammad-Reza Tavassoli checkY 931,845 33.28
8 Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi checkY checkY 889,065 31.75
9 Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi checkY checkY 882,672 31.52
10 Majid Ansari checkY 835,037 29.82
11 Mohsen Kharazi checkY checkY checkY 765,802 27.35
12 Bagher Asadi-Khonsari checkY checkY 764,633 27.31
13 Mohammad Mohammadi-Gilani checkY checkY checkY 693,173 24.75
14 Reza Ostadi checkY checkY 636,651 22.74
15 Mohsen Qomi checkY 633,774 22.63
16 Gholamreza Rezvani checkY checkY 606,735 21.67
Mohammad-Javad Hojjati-Kermani checkY Un­known Defeated
Ali Hojjati-Kermani checkY
Mousavi-Bojnourdi checkY
Saghafi checkY
Ma'refat checkY
Ghazizadeh checkY
Marvi checkY
Anvari checkY checkY
Mohammad Momen checkY checkY
Hossein Rasti-Kashani checkY checkY
Blank Votes 85,047 3.04
Invalid Votes 68,689 2.45
Total Votes 2,800,267 100
Source: Results via IRNA / lists via IRNA, Hamshahri and Hamshahri

References

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  1. ^ a b Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 267. ISBN 9780815654322.