Iranian legislative election, 2000 (Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr)

This is an overview of the 2000 Iranian legislative election in Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district.

2000 parliamentary election

18 February 2000
All 30 seats for Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Registered	5,242,993[1]
Turnout	55.91%[1]
Votes cast 2,931,113[1]

Results

First round

Official results declared by the Ministry of Interior are as follows:

#	Candidate	Electoral lists[2]								Votes[3]	%[3]
		IIPF	ACC	OSU	CNR	ECP	MDP	FFLIL	SDIR
↓ Elected Members ↓
1	Mohammad Reza Khatami	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A				1,794,365	61.21
2	Jamileh Kadivar	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes	N/A			1,377,746	47
3	Alireza Noori	Yes	N/A		Yes	Yes	N/A			1,343,520	45.83
4	Mohsen Armin	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A				1,224,421	41.77
5	Hadi Khamenei	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A			1,223,884	41.77
6	Mohsen Mirdamadi	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A					1,188,309	40.54
7	Majid Ansari	Yes	Yes	N/A		Yes	N/A			1,173,534	40.30
8	Behzad Nabavi	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A			1,148,840	39.19
9	Ahmad Bourghani	Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes	N/A				1,1393,65	38.87
10	Soheila Jolodarzadeh	Yes	Yes	N/A		Yes	Yes	N/A		1,119,735	38.20
11	Davoud Soleimani	Yes	N/A		Yes	N/A				1,081,119	36.88
12	Ahmad Pournejati	Yes	Yes	N/A						1,070,122	36.20
13	Elaheh Koulaei	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A					1,054,003	35.95
14	Ali Shakouri Rad	Yes	N/A							1,053,686	35.94
15	Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoeini	Yes	N/A		Yes	N/A				1,052,344	35.90
16	Vahideh Taleghani	Yes	N/A							1,047,096	35.72
17	Mohsen Safaei Farahani	Yes	Yes	N/A		Yes	N/A			1,038,602	35.43
18	Meysam Saeidi	Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes	N/A				1,025,495	34.98
19	Shamseddin Vahabi	Yes	Yes	N/A						988,594	33.72
20	Fatemeh Haghighatjoo	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A					988,564	33.72
21	Behrouz Afkhami	Yes	N/A							973,727	33.22
22	Mohammad Naeimipour	Yes	Yes	N/A						941,697	32.12
23	Abolghasem Sarhaddizadeh	Yes	Yes	N/A		Yes	N/A			926,054	31.59
24	Fatemeh Rakeei	Yes	N/A							896,573	30.58
25	Mehdi Karoubi	Yes	Yes	N/A			Yes	N/A		892,640	30.45
26	Mahmoud Doayi	Yes	Yes	N/A			Yes	N/A		889,986	30.36
27	Rasoul Montajabnia	Yes	Yes	N/A						782,438	26.69
28	Alireza Rajaei	N/A		Yes	Yes	N/A				771,677	26.32
29	Elias Hazrati	N/A	Yes	N/A						756,266	25.80
30	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	N/A				Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	749,884	25.58
↓ Defeated ↓
31	Ali-Akbar Rahmani	Yes	Yes	N/A						737,976[4]	25.17
32	Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur	Yes	Yes	N/A					Yes	717,076[5]	24.46
33	Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel	N/A				Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	669,547[5]	22.84
34	Hossein Hashemian	N/A	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A			632,692[5]	21.58
35	Gohar Dastgheib	Yes	Yes	N/A						610,076[5]	20.81
36	Mohsen Rezaei	N/A	Yes	N/A		Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes	539,796[5]	18.41
37	Alireza Marandi	N/A						Yes	Yes	512,516[5]	17.48
38	Mahmoud Omrani-Tabarestani	N/A			Yes	N/A				505,640[5]	17.25
39	Abbas Sheibani	N/A					Yes	Yes	Yes	504,248[5]	17.20
40	Hassan Rouhani	N/A				Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	498,916[5]	17.02
41	Mohammad Reza Bahonar	N/A						Yes	Yes	451,343[5]	15.39
...	Data not available	N/A
51	Ahmad Tavakoli	N/A						Yes	Yes	382,867[5]	13.06
52	Morteza Nabavi	N/A						Yes	Yes	376,051[5]	12.82
53	Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani	N/A				Yes	Yes	N/A		366,202[5]	12.49
54	Yahya Ale Eshaq	N/A					Yes	Yes	N/A	351,850[5]	12.00
55	Monireh Nobakht	N/A						Yes	Yes	346,524[5]	11.82
56	Ali Movahedi-Savoji	N/A						Yes	Yes	344,897[5]	11.76
57	Ali Abbaspour	N/A					Yes	Yes	Yes	342,248[5]	11.67
58	Shahabedin Sadr	N/A						Yes	Yes	336,349[5]	11.47
59	Reza Taghavi	N/A						Yes	Yes	332,797[5]	11.35
60	Saeed Madani	N/A			Yes	N/A				327,546[5]	11.17
61	Reza Akrami	N/A					Yes	Yes	N/A	327,122[5]	11.16
62	Davoud Danesh-Jafari	N/A						Yes	Yes	315,827[5]	10.77
63	Gholamhossein Elham	N/A						Yes	Yes	305,833[5]	10.43
64	Fatemeh Rahbar	N/A						Yes	N/A	291,249[5]	9.93
65	Fatemeh Farhangkhah	N/A			Yes	N/A				289,476[5]	9.87
66	Mohammad Behzadi	N/A			Yes	N/A				287,290[5]	9.80
67	Mohammad Reza Sarshar	N/A					Yes	Yes	Yes	285,923[5]	9.78
68	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	N/A						Yes	Yes	280,046[5]	9.55
Blank or Invalid Votes
Total Votes										2,931,113	100

Analysis

15 electoral lists were issued for 30 seats in Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district, endorsing a total of 113 individuals. The 113 listed candidates received an average of 437,459 votes, while 723 unlisted candidates received only 5,524 in average.[6]

Average votes received by each list in Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district[6] List Average votes* Islamic Iran Participation Front   1,049,891 2nd of Khordad Press   1,032,847 Office for Strengthening Unity   963,619 Association of Combatant Clerics   792,630 Worker House   650,733 Executives of Construction Party   631,597 Association of the Women of the Islamic Republic   598,820 Society of Researchers   476,650 Independence Party of Iran   454,204 Moderation and Development Party   427,508 Combatant Clergy Association   396,376 Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution   386,379 Islamic Society of Students   379,938 Islamic Civilization Party   360,825 Summit of Freethinkers   263,826 *Average votes is the arithmetic mean of total votes received by all candidates listed.

Notes and references

1. Ehteshami, Anoushiravan; Zweiri, Mahjoob (2007), Iran and the Rise of Its Neoconservatives: The Politics of Tehran's Silent Revolution, I.B.Tauris, Appendix IX, Table 4. Electoral participation: comparison of the Sixth Majlis elections, 2000 and Seventh Majlis elections, 2004 pp. 35–37, ISBN 978-0857713674
2. Gholami, Fattah (23 February 2012). داستان انتخابات - ششمين دوره انتخابات مجلس شوراي اسلامي اصلاح‌طلبان آمدند. Jamejam Online (in Persian). 100804970772. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
3. نمایندگان مردم تهران در ششمین مجلس شورای اسلامی مشخص شدند. Hamshahri (in Persian) (2063). 27 February 2000.
4. Tehran Ballot Recount Abruptly Stopped, Kuwait News Agency, 9 March 2000, retrieved 19 January 2017
5. آگهی نتیجه انتخابات ششمین دوره مجلس شورای اسلامی در حوزه انتخابیه تهران، ری، شمیرانات و اسلامشهر (in Persian), archived from the original on 9 June 2011
6. Mehdi Mohsenian-Rad (May 2000) [Ordibehesht 1379]. "بررسی آماری نتایج انتخابات مجلس ششم در تهران" [Statistical Analysis of 6th Parliament in Tehran]. Majlis Research Center (in Persian). 5505523.

• آمار مقایسه‌ای نتایج انتخابات مجلس ششم و هفتم (PDF), Ministry of Interior (in Persian)