1999 Tehran City Council election

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Islamic City Council of Tehran election, 1999
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 197626 February 1999 2003  

15 City Council seats
8 seats needed for a majority
Alliance Reformists Conservatives
Seats won
15 / 15
0 / 15

Elected Chairman

Abdollah Nouri
Reformists

An election to the Islamic City Council of Tehran took place on 26 February 1999 along with the local elections nationwide.

The results showed a victory for the Reformist groupings, who won all of the seats.

Results

#CandidatePartyElectoral listVotes%
IIPF ECP ICP CCA
Sitting Members
1 Abdollah Nouri ACC Black check.svgBlack check.svg588,63341.94
2 Saeed Hajjarian IIPF Black check.svgBlack check.svg386,06927.50
3 Jamileh Kadivar WJABlack check.svgBlack check.svg369,66926.34
4 Fatemeh Jalaeipour IIPF Black check.svgBlack check.svg350,17324.95
5 Ebrahim Asgharzadeh IISP Black check.svgBlack check.svg347,17324.73
6 Mohammad Atrianfar ECP Black check.svgBlack check.svg322,89723.00
7 Ahmad Hakimipour AFIL Black check.svgBlack check.svg304,46021.69
8 Mohammad-Hossein Doroudian OSU Black check.svgBlack check.svg279,96419.94
9 Mahmoud Alizadeh-Tabatabaei ECP Black check.svgBlack check.svg260,46218.55
10 Morteza Lotfi ILP Black check.svgBlack check.svg224,86716.02
11 Rahmatollah Khosravi AFIL Black check.svgBlack check.svg220,02115.67
12 Gholamreza Forouzesh ECP Black check.svgBlack check.svgBlack check.svg245,52015.35
13 Sedigheh Vasmaghi IIPF Black check.svg210,30314.98
14 Abbas Douzdouzani IIPF Black check.svg200,52114.28
15 Mohammad Gharazi ECP Black check.svgBlack check.svgBlack check.svg192,21113.69
Alternate Members
16 Davoud Soleymani IIPF Black check.svg190,77213.59
17 Mohammad-Hossein Haghighi IIPF Black check.svg176,55612.58
18 Amir Abedini 176,28912.56
19 Mansour Razavi ECP Black check.svgBlack check.svgBlack check.svg167,28811.92
20 Yahya Ale Eshaq ICP Black check.svgBlack check.svg165,21711.77
21 Mohammad Kazem Seifian ICP Black check.svgBlack check.svg152,10610.83
Invalid/blank votes76,8865.19
Total Votes1,480,275100

    Source: Hamshahri / Khabaronline

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