2006 Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr by-election

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2006 Tehran by-election
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  2004/2005 15 December 2006 2008  

The vacant seats for Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Triggered by resignation of Davoud Danesh-Jafari and Manouchehr Mottaki
  Ghafourifard by MehrNewsAgency.jpg Jolodarzadeh by MehrNewsAgency.jpg Badamchian by MehrNewsAgency.jpg
Candidate Hassan Ghafourifard Soheila Jolodarzadeh Asadollah Badamchian
Party ICP ILP ICP
Popular vote452,801445,834294,861
Percentage21.44%17.82%13.96%

Subsequent MPs

Hassan Ghafourifard
Soheila Jolodarzadeh

A by-election for the Islamic Consultative Assembly's constituency Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr was held on 15 December 2006, to fill two vacancies caused by resignation of Davoud Danesh-Jafari and Manouchehr Mottaki, who were appointed as finance and foreign ministers respectively. The voters in Tehran cast their ballots along with the nationwide Assembly of Experts election and the Tehran City Council election. [1]

The two seats went to conservative Hassan Ghafourifard and reformist Soheila Jolodarzadeh, who were placed the first and the second respectively in a plurality-at-large voting system. [1]

Results

The top sixteen candidates who ran for the seats, were:

#CandidatePartyVotes%
1 Hassan Ghafourifard Islamic Coalition Party 452,80121.44
2 Soheila Jolodarzadeh Islamic Labour Party 445,83417.82
3 Asadollah Badamchian Islamic Coalition Party 294,86113.96
4 Seyyed Ali-Akbar Mousavi-Hosseini Combatant Clergy Association 124,0585.81
5Seyyed Hassan Mousavi-Tabrizi Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers 56,5872.68
6Mohammad Beheshti56,2392.66
7Saeid Sadeghi Development and Justice Party 45,4792.15
8Zahra Soleimani44,8952.13
9 Saeed Rajaee Khorasani Independence Party of Iran43,2532.05
10Leili Ahmadi40,3461.91
11Mohammad-Hossein Tavakkoli38,0561.80
12Ebrahim Azarpeyvand32,7001.55
13Mahmoud Saber-Hamishegi Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution 32,1321.52
14Mahmoud Ebrahimi30,9351.47
15Hossein Rezakhah Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude 26,4181.25
16Gholamreza Arefnasab26,3761.25
Total Votes2,111,037100
Source: ISNA

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References

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