Electoral history of Mohammad Khatami

This is a summary of the electoral history of Mohammad Khatami, an Iranian Reformist politician who has been previously President of Iran (1997–2005) and member of Islamic Consultative Assembly (1980–1982) from Ardakan.

Parliament election

1980

In the election he was placed first in Ardakan, receiving 32,942 out of 40,112 (82.1%) votes.[1]

Ministry approval

Khatami was nominated and approved for Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance by Iranian Parliament on consecutive times.[2]

Majlis Term	Year	Votes	%	Nominated by
1st	1982	121 / 170 27 against, 22 abstained	71.17	Mir Hossein Mousavi
2nd	1986	158 / 205 28 against, 19 abstained	77.07	Mir Hossein Mousavi
3rd	1988	175 / 247 57 against, 15 abstained	70.85	Mir Hossein Mousavi
3rd	1989	246 / 260 10 against, 4 abstained	94.61	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Presidential elections

1997

1997 Iranian presidential election
Party		Candidate	Nohen et al[3]		ISSDP[4]
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Association of Combatant Clerics	Mohammad Khatami	20,078,187	69.07	20,138,784	69.1
	Combatant Clergy Association	Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri	7,242,859	24.91	7,248,317	24.87
	Independent	Reza Zavarei	771,460	2.65	772,707	2.65
	Association for Defence of Revolution Values	Mohammad Reyshahri	742,598	2.55	744,205	2.65
Blank or invalid votes			240,996	0.93	241,732	0.83
Totals			29,067,100	100	29,145,745	100

2001

Iranian presidential election, 2001
Candidate	Votes	%
Mohammad Khatami	21,656,476	76.90
Ahmad Tavakkoli	4,387,112	15.58
Ali Shamkhani	737,051	2.61
Abdollah Jassbi	259,759	0.92
Mahmoud Kashani	237,660	0.84
Hassan Ghafourifard	129,155	0.45
Mansour Razavi	114,616	0.40
Shahabedin Sadr	60,546	0.21
Ali Fallahian	55,225	0.19
Mostafa Hashemitaba	27,949	0.09
Valid votes	27,665,549	98.25
Blank or invalid votes	493,740	1.75
Totals	28,159,289	100.00%
Sources: Sahliyeh[5] and RFE/RL[6]

References

1. Getting to Know the Representatives in the Majles (PDF), Iranian Parliament, p. 124
2. کابینه 10 دولت پیشین: سابقه رای اعتماد مجلسی‌ ها (in Persian), IRINN, retrieved 23 March 2015
3. Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof (2001). "Iran". Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook. I. Oxford University Press. p. 76. ISBN 0-19-924958-X.
4. "1997 Presidential Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, retrieved 10 August 2015
5. Sahliyeh, Emile (2002). "The Reforming Elections in Iran, 2000–2001". Electoral Studies. Elsevier. 21 (3): 526–533. doi:10.1016/S0261-3794(01)00041-5.
6. Samii, Bill (11 June 2001). "Four More Years of What?". Iran Report. Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 4 (22).