Elections in Iran
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Iran elects on national level a head of state and the head of government (the president), a legislature (the Majlis), and an "Assembly of Experts" (which elects the Supreme Leader). City and Village Council elections are also held every four years throughout the entire country. The president is elected for a four-year term by the citizens. The Parliament or Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis-e Shura-ye Eslami) currently has 290 members, also elected for a four-year term in multi- and single-seat constituencies. Elections for the Assembly of Experts are held every eight years. All candidates have to be approved by the Guardian Council. See Politics of Iran for more details.
Until January 2007, when it was raised to 18, the voting age was 15 years, the lowest globally at the time.[1]
The most recent Iranian presidential election was held on 18 June 2021 and the most recent legislative election on 21 February 2020. Presidential and local elections were held on 19 May 2017 simultaneously. Previous parliamentary elections and Assembly of Experts elections were held on 26 February 2016.
According to V-Dem Democracy indices, there has been worsening repression in Iran after the Mahsa Amini protests.[2][3]
Elections since 1979
Presidential elections
Majlis elections
Latest elections
2021 Presidential election
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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| Ebrahim Raisi | Combatant Clergy Association | 17,926,345 | 72.38 | |
| Mohsen Rezaee | Resistance Front of Islamic Iran | 3,412,712 | 13.78 | |
| Abdolnaser Hemmati | Executives of Construction Party | 2,427,201 | 9.80 | |
| Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi | Islamic Law Party | 999,718 | 4.04 | |
| Total | 24,765,976 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 24,765,976 | 85.60 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 4,167,028 | 14.40 | ||
| Total votes | 28,933,004 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 59,310,307 | 48.78 | ||
| Source: Iran International | ||||
2021 Local election
2016 Assembly of Experts election
2020 Parliamentary election
See also
References
External links
- Election Data Archives
- The Outcome of Iran’s Parliamentary Elections
- Iran Data Portal, Princeton University
- Iran Electoral Archive, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
- Results of parliamentary elections, Inter-Parliamentary Union
- Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive
- other
- 2009 Iranian elections page on BBC Persian
- BBC Persian on Iran presidential elections
- Video Archive of Iranian Elections
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