2013 Tehran City Council election

Islamic City Council of Tehran election, 2013
31 City Council seats; 16 seats needed for a majority
Chairman before election; Mehdi Chamran ; Principlist	Elected Chairman; Ahmad Masjed-Jamei ; Reformists

Last updated June 30, 2023

An election to the Islamic City Council of Tehran took place on 14 June 2013, along with the local elections nationwide.

The council is elected by the plurality-at-large voting system. The Principlists gained majority with 18 seats, while the Reformists had endorsed 13 winners in their list.^[1]

Results

#	Candidate	Electoral list							Votes	%
#	Candidate	RC	PV	PJP	ABII	FLIL	FIRS	AM	Votes	%
↓ 31 Sitting Members ↓
1	Mehdi Chamran			Y	Y		Y		566,614	20.34
2	Alireza Dabir			Y					400,677	14.38
3	Ahmad Masjed-Jamei	Y	Y						281,548	10.10
4	Hossein Rezazadeh						Y		270,390	9.70
5	Habib Kashani			Y	Y				266,533	9.57
6	Hadi Saei								260,457	9.35
7	Morteza Talaie			Y	Y				242,386	8.70
8	Parviz Sorouri			Y	Y		Y		199,956	7.18
9	Reza Taghipour			Y	Y		Y		186,020	6.68
10	Elaheh Rastgou	Y							179,982	6.46
11	Abbas Sheybani		Y	Y	Y	Y			173,277	6.22
12	Esmaeil Dousti	Y	Y						158,707	5.70
13	Ahmad Donyamali	Y	Y	Y					157,277	5.64
14	Mohammad Salari	Y	Y						155,138	5.57
15	Mohammad-Mehdi Tondgouyan	Y							154,921	5.56
16	Fatemeh Daneshvar	Y							144,792	5.20
17	Ahmad Hakimipour	Y							137,694	4.94
18	Mohammad Haghani	Y							135,100	4.85
19	Mojtaba Shakeri			Y			Y		130,269	4.68
20	Abdolhossein Mokhtabad	Y	Y						129,969	4.66
21	Rahmatollah Hafezi			Y	Y		Y		129,832	4.66
22	Abolfazl Ghana'ati			Y	Y		Y		127,664	4.58
23	Eghbal Shakeri			Y	Y		Y		127,558	4.58
24	Mehdi Hojjat	Y	Y	Y					127,252	4.57
25	Gholamreza Ansari	Y							126,500	4.54
26	Masoumeh Abad			Y	Y				122,790	4.41
27	Abolmoghim Nasehi			Y	Y				119,826	4.30
28	Mohsen Sorkhou	Y							118,745	4.26
29	Abbas Jadidi								117,503	4.22
30	Mohsen Pirhadi			Y	Y				114,495	4.11
31	Mohammad Mehdi Mofatteh		Y		Y	Y			114,439	4.11
↓ 12 Alternate Members ↓
32	Masoud Soltanifar	Y							114,118	4.10
33	Valiollah Shojapourian	Y							110,696	3.97
34	Ali Saberi	Y							109,411	3.93
35	Afshin Habibzadeh	Y	Y						108,059	3.88
36	Hassan Khalilabadi	Y							106,731	3.83
37	Zahra Sadre'azam-Nouri	Y							105,896	3.80
38	Faezeh Dolati	Y							105,675	3.79
39	Abbas Mirza-Aboutalebi	Y							104,591	3.75
40	Abbas Masjedi-Arani				Y		Y		104,273	3.74
41	Adel Abdi	Y							104,176	3.74
42	Khosro Daneshjou			Y	Y				103,949	3.73
43	Hassan Ghafourifard		Y			Y			101,822	3.65
↓ Defeated ↓
44	Mohammad Saeidnejad	Y							101,683	3.65
45	Seyyed Hassan E'temadzadeh					Y	Y		101,603	3.65
46	Afshin Ala'	Y							101,542	3.64
47	Siavash Shahrivar	Y							101,034	3.63
48	Somayeh Boroujerdi		Y	Y					100,510	3.61
49	Alireza Ali-Ahmadi			Y	Y				99,019	3.55
50	Seyyed Mehdi Nademi	Y							98,970	3.55
51	Seyyed Abolhassan Riazi	Y							98,628	3.54
52	Mohsen Mansouri						Y		95,509	3.43
53	Mohammad Mirzaei	Y							94,758	3.40
54	Behrouz Shojaei	Y							94,446	3.39
55	Ali Nozarpour	Y							89,385	3.21
56	Seyyed Afzal Mousavi	Y							87,465	3.14
57	Hossein Sari				Y		Y		86,418	3.10
58	Bahman Adibzadeh				Y		Y		85,109	3.05
59	Hassan Bayadi				Y				84,289	3.03
60	Hassan Hamidzadeh						Y		75,190	2.70
61	Seyyed Manaaf Hashemi			Y					74,178	2.66
62	Vahid Norouzi		Y	Y					73,266	2.63
63	Irandokht Fayyaz		Y		Y			Y	67,022	2.41
64	Fazel Nazari			Y	Y				65,183	2.34
65	Sedigheh Hekmat		Y						61,915	2.22
66	Ali Rajabi						Y		61,083	2.19
67	Mohammad-Hashem Ghoroghi						Y		60,054	2.16
68	Alireza Saffarzadeh						Y		60,005	2.15
69	Morteza Ghoroghi								59,661	2.14
70	Eshrat Shayegh			Y					56,601	2.03
71	Abdolhossein Nasseri						Y		55,641	1.99
72	Ebrahim Bazian						Y		54,635	1.96
73	Ahmad Cheldavi						Y		53,892	1.93
74	Jalil Nikzad-Samarin						Y		53,811	1.93
75	Amireddin Sadrnejad						Y		53,658	1.92
76	Majid Shayesteh								53,120	1.90
77	Vadoud Heydari			Y					51,709	1.85
78	Zahra Soltani						Y		51,025	1.83
79	Reza Moghaddas		Y						50,660	1.81
80	Afshin Parvinpour						Y		50,370	1.80
81	Abdolreza Sheykholeslami							Y	50,179	1.80
82	Mohammad-Reza Tabatabaei						Y		49,677	1.78
83	Ferdos Ghomashchi						Y		49,621	1.78
84	Rasoul Abbasi						Y		49,469	1.78
85	Saeid Ghofrani			Y	Y				48,930	1.76
86	Morteza Mahmoudi						Y		48,914	1.76
87	Mahnoosh Motamedi Azari						Y		47,253	1.70
88	Asadollah Asgaroladi		Y			Y			44,441	1.59
89	Ahmad Sadeghi								43,866	1.57
90	Mohammad-Reza Mirmohammadi						Y		42,307	1.52
91	Habibollah Kasesaz				Y				42,097	1.51
92	Mahmoud Saber-Hamishegi								40,730	1.46
93	Ebrahim Ansarian					Y			40,281	1.45
94	Hossein Khanlari								39,826	1.43
95	Seyyed Hadi Hashemi								37,433	1.34
96	Rahim Khaki				Y				36,727	1.32
97	Parvin Ahmadinejad							Y	35,339	1.27
98	Majid Fahmideh								35,154	1.26
99	Esmat Nazeri			Y	Y				35,154	1.26
100	Arash Miresmaeili								33,549	1.20

Invalid/blank votes									543,695	19.51
Total Votes									2,786,357	100
Source: Ministry of Interior / Asriran / Khabaronline / Fars Archived 2018-06-16 at the Wayback Machine / Fars / Entekhab / Asriran

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References

↑ Ali M. Pedram (20 June 2013). "Reformists return to power in Iran's local elections". Asharq Al Awsat. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2017. Thirty-one council seats were up for grabs in Tehran, with 13 going to reformists. Although conservatives won 18 seats in the capital in total... Although the composition of Tehran's new city council appears to give conservatives a majority with 18 seats, four of these were won by previously apolitical celebrity athletes, who observers speculate may be open to changing their affiliation in the future.

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[1] Ali M. Pedram (20 June 2013). "Reformists return to power in Iran's local elections". Asharq Al Awsat. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2017. Thirty-one council seats were up for grabs in Tehran, with 13 going to reformists. Although conservatives won 18 seats in the capital in total... Although the composition of Tehran's new city council appears to give conservatives a majority with 18 seats, four of these were won by previously apolitical celebrity athletes, who observers speculate may be open to changing their affiliation in the future.

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v t e Elections in Tehran since 1979
Parliament	1980 1981 ^b 1982 ^b 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2001 ^b 2004/2005 2006 ^b 2008 2012 2016 2020 2021 ^b
City Council	1999 2003 2006 2013 2017 2021
Assembly of Experts	1982 1990 1998 2006 2008 ^b 2009 ^b 2016 2020 ^b 2021 ^b
Other	1979 Constitutional Assembly
^b By-election