2000 Iranian legislative election

2000 Iranian legislative election

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All 290 seats of Islamic Consultative Assembly 146 seats needed for a majority
Registered	38,726,388 [1]
Turnout	69.27%
First party Second party   Party Parties IIPF ACC IISP ECP ILP OSU WH AWIR IAE IAU IAT IAM AFIL Parties CCA ISC SDIR ZS ISE ISA ISE ISS IAP Alliance Reformists Principlists Nationalist–Religious Seats won 195≈222 54≈74 2
Composition of the Assembly following the election
Speaker before election Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri Combatant Clergy Elected Speaker Mehdi Karroubi Combatant Clerics

Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 18 February 2000, with a second round on 5 May. ^[2] The result was a solid victory for 2nd of Khordad Front and its allies, the reformist supporters of President Mohammad Khatami.

Campaign

A total of 6,083 candidates contested the elections. ^[1] 225 of the 290 seats were won in the first round of voting. ^[1] Registration process took place between 11 and 16 December 1999. ^[3]

Main reformist coalition lists were "2nd of Khordad Press" and "Coalition of 15 Groups Supporting 2nd of Khordad" (including 11 out of 18 members in the 2nd of Khordad Front) and main principlist coalition was Coalition of Followers of the Line of Imam and Leader. Rest of lists were issued by solitary parties. ^[4] For the first time Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists of Iran issued an electoral list and was able to win two exclusive seats (Alireza Rajaei in Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr and Rahman Kargosha in Arak, Komijan and Khondab) but the Guardian Council declared their votes "voided". ^[5]

Results

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

Inter-Parliamentary Union

Inter-Parliamentary Union report cites the following results:

Electoral list	1st round seats	2nd round seats	Total seats won
2nd of Khordad Front	170	52	222
Front of Followers of the Line of the Imam and the Leader	45	9	54
Independents	10	4	14
Source: Inter-Parliamentary Union [1]

Samii (2000)

The data includes first round only.

Electoral list	1◦ round seats
Reformists	148
Conservatives	37
Independents	35
Religious minorities	5
Total	225
Source: A. W. Samii [6]

Bakhash (2001)

The data includes second round only.

Electoral list	2◦ round seats
Reformists	47
Conservatives	10
Independents	9
Total	66
Source: Bakhash [7]

Shaul Bakhash states that reformers had a comfortable majority, however estimates differed as to the size of this majority. He cites Behzad Nabavi's account (reformers 200 seats, the conservatives 58, and independents 18) as "inflated", but considers Payam-e Emruz report (which states that 150 MPs are committed to the "2nd of Khordad agenda") reliable. Bakhash additionally suggests that votes cast for the Speakers provide a better gauge of the distribution of forces, concluding that 50 to 60 deputies were affiliated with the Combatant Clergy Association, 150 with Islamic Iran Participation Front and 15 to the Executives of Construction. ^[7] The most detailed results, with data down to the province level, can be found on the "Iran Data Portal". ^[8]

Nohlen et al. (2001)

In the following table, the Independents are counted as "allies".

Party	Seats	+/–
Islamic Iran Participation Front and allies	216	New
Combatant Clergy Association and allies	74	–36
Total	290	+20
Source: Nohlen et al. [2]

Abrahamian (2008)

Ervand Abrahamian cites that reformist enjoyed a majority (69.25%), or 26.8 million, of the 38.7 million voters who cast ballots in the February 18, 2000 first round. Ultimately reformists won 195 of the 290 Majlis seats in that election. ^[9]

Kazemzadeh (2008)

Faction	Seats	Bloc seats
Right-wing hardliners	50	75a
Executives of Construction	60	215a
Reformists	130
Independents	50	—a
Total	290
Source: Kazemzadeh [10] a25 Independents for each bloc

See also

• Iran After the Elections conference

References

1. "Parliamentary Chamber: Majlis Shoraye Eslami; Elections held in 2000", Inter-Parliamentary Union, retrieved 29 July 2017
2. Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof (2001). "Iran". Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook. Vol. I. Oxford University Press. pp. 68, 74. ISBN   978-0-19-924958-9.
3. Guy Engelman (2 February 2000), "A Background to Iran's Forthcoming Majlis Elections", The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (PolicyWatch), no. 436, retrieved 29 August 2017
4. Gholami, Fattah (23 February 2012). داستان انتخابات - ششمين دوره انتخابات مجلس شوراي اسلامياصلاح‌طلبان آمدند. Jamejam Online (in Persian). 100804970772. Archived from the original on 23 October 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
5. Beheshti, Ebrahim (4 January 2016) [14 Dey 1394]. "گزارش "ایران" از صف‌آرایی گروه‌های سیاسی در ۹ دوره انتخابات مجلس". Iran (in Persian). No. 6116. 109221. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
6. A. W. Samii (March 2000), "Iran's 2000 Elections" (PDF), The Middle East Review of International Affairs, 4 (1), archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-07-30, retrieved 2017-07-30
7. Shaul Bakhash (2001), "Reformists, Conservatives and Iran's Parliamentary Elections", in Joseph A. Kechichian (ed.), Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States, New York: Palgrave=, pp. 23, 29, ISBN   978-0-312-29388-8
8. "Parliamentary Elections | Iran Data Portal".
9. Ervand Abrahamian (2008), "The Islamic Republic", A History of Modern Iran, Cambridge University Press, p. 188, ISBN   978-0-521-82139-1, In parliamentary elections in 2000, they won 80 percent of the vote and obtained 195 of the 290 Majles seats.
10. Masoud Kazemzadeh (2008), "Intra-Elite Factionalism and the 2004 Majles Elections in Iran", Middle Eastern Studies, 44 (2): 189–214, doi:10.1080/00263200701874867, S2CID   144111986 – via Taylor and Francis Online (subscription required)

External links

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