1980 Iranian presidential election

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.

1980 Iranian presidential election
25 January 1980
Registered20,993,643[1]
Turnout67.42%[1]
 
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

Candidates

The number of the candidates registered to run for the presidency was 124, but only 96 of them were allowed to run.[1] There were only 8 candidates with ballot access and the rest of candidates were write-in.[2]

Candidates with ballot access
Party nominees[2]
Non-partisan candidates[2]

Withdrew

Declined to run

Endorsements
OrganizationCandidate
Combatant Clergy Association Abolhassan Banisadr[2]
Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom Hassan Habibi (Replaced Abolhassan Banisadr)[2]
Islamic Republican Party Hassan Habibi (Replaced Jalaleddin Farsi)[2]
Freedom Movement of Iran None[2]
Tudeh Party of Iran Hassan Habibi[3]
Nation Party of Iran Dariush Forouhar[2]
Revolutionary Movement of Muslim People of Iran Kazem Sami[2]
People's Mujahedin of Iran None (Initially Massoud Rajavi)[4]
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan None (Initially Massoud Rajavi)[5]
Organization of People's Fedaian Majority and Minority None (Initially Massoud Rajavi)[6]
Movement of Militant Muslims None[3]
Socialist Workers' Party of Iran Babak Zahraei[3]
Fada'iyan-e Islam Abolhassan Banisadr[3]
Islamic Association of Teachers of Iran Abolhassan Banisadr[3]

Election results

Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as president.

Nationwide
1980 Iranian presidential election
Party Candidate Votes %
Independent Abolhassan Banisadr 10,709,330 75.6
Independent[lower-alpha 1] Ahmad Madani 2,224,554 15.71
Islamic Republican Party Hassan Habibi 674,859 3.35
Nation Party Dariush Forouhar 133,478 0.94
Independent[lower-alpha 2] Sadeq Tabatabaei 114,776 0.81
JAMA Kazem Sami 89,270 0.63
Independent Sadegh Ghotbzadeh 48,547 0.34
Other candidates 2,110 0.01
Valid votes 13,994,814 98.93
Blank or invalid votes 151,806 1.07
Totals 14,146,620 100
Voter turnout 67.42
  1. National Front member
  2. Freedom Movement of Iran member

Sources: Nohlen et al[7] and Iran Social Science Data Portal[1]

Tehran
#CandidateVotes[2]
1Abolhassan Banisadr1,833,197
2Ahmad Madani553,557
3Hassan Habibi90,228
4Sadeq Tabatabaei28,676
5Kazem Sami24,676
6Dariush Forouhar22,221
7Sadegh Ghotbzadeh12,207
8Mohammad Mokri299
9Mahmoud Seirafizadeh169
Others<100

References
  1. "1980 Presidential Election". Iran Social Science Data Portal. Princeton University. 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, 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
  6. Parsa, Misagh (1989), Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution, Rutgers University Press, p. 255, ISBN 0813514126
  7. Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof (2001). "Iran". Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook. I. Oxford University Press. p. 75. ISBN 0-19-924958-X.


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