1998 Assembly of Experts election
23 October 1998
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

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

  1. 1 2 Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 267. ISBN 9780815654322.
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