1909 Persian legislative election

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1909 Persian legislative election
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  1906 1909 1914  

All 126 seats to the National Consultative Assembly
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
Party Moderate Socialists Party Democrat Party Union and Progress Party
Seats won36 [1] 28 [1] 4 [1]

 Fourth partyFifth party
 
Party Southern Progressives Independent
Seats won2≈4 [2] 55

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Prime Minister before election

Vacant

Elected Prime Minister

Mohammad Vali Khan Tonekaboni
Moderate Socialists Party

Parliamentary elections were held for the second time in Persia in 1909. The new Parliament convened on 19 November. [3] The majority of the parliament was held by a some 53-seats coalition pioneered by Moderate Socialists Party. [4]

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