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| Turnout | 64.64%[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 15 April 1984, with a second round on 17 May.[2] The majority of seats were won by independents, whilst the Islamic Republican Party was the only party to win seats. Voter turnout was 65.1% in the first round.[3]
The Freedom Movement of Iran declared that it would boycott the elections after its headquarters was attacked and the authorities refused to permit the party to hold two seminars.[4]
Background
The election was held under conditions of severe sanctions on politic and economical sector as well as war with Iraq's Baathist government (Iran-Iraq War). This election was also first time since 1979 revolution which only one political party were allowed to participated (as other political parties were banned & even dissolved before this election).
Conduct
The election was held under conditions of war with Iraq's Baathist government (Iran-Iraq War), caused many cities in border with Iraq were severely destroyed (or could not hold direct election). Therefore. this election was conducted with two ways :
- Direct national election (for areas that were not heavily affected by war and also for religious minorities seats)
- Indirect national election (for areas that were heavily affected by war -mainly in border with Iraq-)
Out of 193 constituencies, 187 (including 5 electoral districts for religious minorities ) hold direct election while the six others hold indirect elections. These six were :
- Mehran (Ilam & Mehran constituency) - Ilam Province
- Dehloran (Dehloran & Darreh Shahr constituency) - Ilam Province
- Abadeh (Abadeh constituency) - Fars Province
- Susangerd (Dasht-e-Azadegan constituency) - Khuzestan Province
- Khorramshahr (Khorramshahr constituency) - Khuzestan Province
- Qasr-e-Shirin (Qasr-e-Shirin & Sarpol-e-Zahab constituency) - Kermanshah Province
Results
130 seats were elected in second round.
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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| Islamic Republican Party | 130 | +45 | ||
| Independents | 140 | 0 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | – | – | – | |
| Total | 15,815,986 | 100 | 270 | 0 |
| Registered voters/turnout | 24,300,000 | 65.1 | – | – |
| Source: Nohlen et al. | ||||
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani remained in his position as Speaker of Majlis
By-elections
For second period of Majlis, five by-elections were held.
See also
- List of MPs elected in the 1984 Iranian legislative election
References
- 1 2 "1984 Parliamentary Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, archived from the original on 2012-05-30, retrieved 10 August 2015
- ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p68 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
- ↑ Nohlen et al., p69
- ↑ Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 296. ISBN 1850431981.