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This is an overview of the 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election in Tehran Province.
The voter turnout was 53.11% in the constituency. [1]
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This is an overview of the 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election in Tehran Province.
The voter turnout was 53.11% in the constituency. [1]
| # | Candidate | Lists | Votes | % | Notes | |||
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| PE | FM | CCA | SST | |||||
| 1 | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |  | | | N/A | 2,305,419 | 51.22 | Elected |
| 2 | Mohammed Emami-Kashani | | | | | 2,286,447 | 50.80 | |
| 3 | Hassan Rouhani | | | | | 2,243,687 | 49.85 | |
| 4 | Mohsen Qomi | | | | | 2,236,953 | 49.70 | |
| 5 | Mohammad-Ali Movahedi-Kermani | | | | | 2,134,963 | 47.43 | |
| 6 | Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi | | | | | 2,059,246 | 45.75 | |
| 7 | Mohammad Reyshahri | | | | | 1,976,567 | 43.91 | |
| 8 | Abolfazl Mir-Mohammadi | | | | | 1,973,842 | 43.85 | |
| 9 | Ebrahim Amini | | | | | 1,907,332 | 42.38 | |
| 10 | Mahmoud Alavi | | | N/A | 1,712,970 | 38.06 | ||
| 11 | Nasrallah Shah-Abadi | | N/A | 1,449,313 | 32.20 | |||
| 12 | Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri | | | | N/A | 1,449,083 | 32.20 | |
| 13 | Mohsen Esmaeili | | | N/A | 1,424,375 | 31.65 | ||
| 14 | Mohammad-Hassan Zali | | | N/A | 1,360,379 | 30.22 | ||
| 15 | Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani | | | N/A | 1,331,056 | 29.57 | ||
| 16 | Ahmad Jannati | N/A | | | 1,329,625 | 29.54 | ||
| 17 | Mohammad Yazdi | N/A | | | 1,250,082 | 27.77 | Defeated | |
| 18 | Mohammad Sajjadi Ata-Abadi | | | N/A | 1,221,694 | 27.14 | ||
| 19 | Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi | N/A | | | 1,020,605 | 22.68 | ||
| 20 | Mohammad-Bagher Bagheri | N/A | | | 982,140 | 21.82 | ||
| 21 | Ali Momenpour | N/A | | 970,961 | 21.57 | |||
| 22 | Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghadam | N/A | | | 949,226 | 21.09 | ||
| 23 | Alireza Arafi | N/A | | | 925,727 | 20.57 | ||
| 24 | Abbas-Ali Akhtari | N/A | 911,289 | 20.25 | ||||
| 25 | Mohammad Reza Modarresi-Yazdi | N/A | | | 864,077 | 19.20 | ||
| 26 | Mohammad-Ali Amin | N/A | | N/A | 337,522 | 7.50 | ||
| 27 | Hashem Hamidi | N/A | | N/A | 223,260 | 4.96 | ||
| 28 | Hamed Taheri | N/A | 136,678 | 3.04 | ||||
| Blank or Invalid Votes | 322,370 | 7.16 | ||||||
| Total Votes | 4,500,894 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Sources: Official Results, Lists: PE FM CCA SST, Blank/invalid votes: BBC | ||||||||
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