2021 Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis by-election

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2021 Tehran by-election
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  2020 18 June 2021

The vacant seat for Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis
Triggered by death of Fatemeh Rahbar
 
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Candidate Esmaeil Kousari Hamid Rasaei Alireza Mahjoub
Party FIRS FIRS WH
Popular vote346,645261,81098,823
Percentage19.44%14.68%5.54%

Subsequent MP

Esmaeil Kousari

A by-election for the Islamic Consultative Assembly's constituency Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis was held on 18 June 2021, to fill the vacancy caused by death of Fatemeh Rahbar. The voters cast their ballots along with the 2021 Iranian presidential election, the election for the City Council of Tehran, as well as another by-election for the Assembly of Experts.

It was won by Esmaeil Kousari, a brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who had recently resigned from his office, and was officially supported by the conservative alliance Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces. Two former MPs for the constituency, conservative Hamid Rasaei and Alireza Mahjoub of the Worker House ended up in the second and third place respectively.

The by-election had a low turnout, and is thought to have had an unprecedented number of invalid votes.

Results

The top ten candidates out of 202 who ran for the seat, were:

#CandidatePartyVotes%
1 Esmaeil Kousari Front of Islamic Revolution Stability 346,64519.44
2 Hamid Rasaei Front of Islamic Revolution Stability 261,81014.68
3 Alireza Mahjoub Worker House 98,8235.54
4Ali Karbasi20,8561.16
5Zahra Saeidi-Mobarakeh Zeynab Society 16,1120.90
6Amir Aghasi9,4530.05
7Alireza Yazdani6,5140.03
8Asghar Azoureh5,9940.03
9Mehdi Marashi5,7890.03
10Reza Vahedi5,4720.03
Blank/Invalid votesNot Declared
Total Votes1,783,003100
Source: [1]

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