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Legislative elections were held in Iran on 1 March 2024 for the first round, and on a later date on 10 May 2024 for the second.
They were held four years after the previous election in 2020. [2] The election had a preregistration for the first time as a result of a 2023 law. [3] Elections to the Assembly of Experts are taking place concurrently with the legislative elections.
The elections had most moderate and reformist figures disqualified from polls. It also had a record low turnout of 41%. [4]
The 290-seat Islamic Consultative Assembly consists of 285 directly elected members and five seats reserved for the Zoroastrians, Jews, Assyrian and Chaldean Christians and Armenians (one for Armenians in the north of Iran and one for Armenians in the south). [5] The 285 directly elected seats were elected from 196 single and multi-member constituencies. In single-member constituencies, candidates had to receive at least 25% of the vote in the first round to be elected; in cases where no candidate passed the threshold, a second round is held between the top two candidates. In multi-member constituencies, voters cast as many votes as there are seats available; if not all seats are filled by candidates with at least 25% of the vote, a second round is held with twice the number of candidates as there are seats to be filled (or all the original candidates if there are fewer than double the number of seats). [5]
As with the previous election, in order to qualify to stand as a candidate in the election, in accordance with Iranian laws, a candidate must: [5]
A candidate will be disqualified if he/she is found to be mentally impaired, actively supporting the Shah or supporting political parties and organizations deemed illegal or been charged with anti-government activity, converted to another faith or has otherwise renounced the Islamic faith, have been found guilty of corruption, treason, fraud, bribery, is an addict or trafficker or have been found guilty of violating Sharia law. [5] Also, candidates must be literate; candidates cannot have played a role in the pre-1979 government, be large landowners, drug addicts or have convictions relating to actions against the state or apostasy. Government ministers, members of the Guardian Council and High Judicial Council are banned from running for office, as is the Head of the Administrative Court of Justice, the Head of General Inspection, some civil servants and religious leaders and any member of the armed forces. [5]
Preregistration was held for seven days.[ when? ] A record-breaking 48,847 people registered as candidates in the election, who were then vetted by the Guardian Council to run for election. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Of these candidates, 75% were below the age of 50. [11] About 15,200 received final approval to run for office, with reformists believed to constitute between 20 and 30 percent of them. [12] The candidates also included 1,713 women, which was more than double the number who competed in the last election, at 819. [13]
Candidates had only one week to publicly campaign from 22 February until 29 February. [14]
A former minister of intelligence predicted that turnout may be low as the population may distance themselves from the election due to recent protests. [15] A survey released by the state-owned polling center ISPA on 29 February expected a turnout of 38.5 percent nationwide and 23.5 percent in Tehran. [16] Actual turnout was at 41 percent, equivalent to about 25 million voters and the lowest since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. [17] About five percent of ballots cast were also declared "invalid". [4]
Prior to the vote, the newspaper Kayhan claimed that the National Trust Party and the Executives of Construction Party had signed up for the election. In a report, the Islamic Coalition Party invited people to vote. [18] [19] Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged for a strong turnout, saying that "it is important to show the world that the nation is mobilised," and that "the enemies of Iran want to see if the people are present." Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Hossein Salami also urged people to participate, saying that "every vote is like a missile that is fired into the heart of our strongest enemies". [20] President Ebrahim Raisi urged the public to make the elections “a glorious day for the Iranian nation.” [21] In what was seen as an effort to boost turnout, members of the Iranian police were given four days of incentive leave to cast their vote. [22]
About 275 prominent activists and civil society representatives called for a boycott of the election, citing the "disgraceful" state of the electoral system and the "complete elimination of opponents." [23] Among them was imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate and women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi, who called the vote a "sham". [16] The Reform Front also described the vote as "meaningless, non-competitive and ineffective", while former President Mohammad Khatami said that Iran was "very far from free and competitive elections". [20] In West Azerbaijan province, 50 activists were arrested for calling for a boycott of the election on social media. [22] Former president Hassan Rouhani, who was disqualified from running in the Assembly of Experts after being a member for 24 years, urged for a "protest vote" but did not explicitly call for a boycott. [24]
Polls opened at 08:00 local time in 59,000 precincts across the country and were initially set to run for ten hours before being extended until midnight. Electronic voting was scheduled to be held in 1,700 polling stations across four constituencies. The Interior Ministry deployed 250,000 security personnel to ensure the conduct of the elections amid tighter scrutiny in the aftermath of the 2024 Kerman bombings. [25] [26] [27]
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Initial results revealed that a second round was required for 45 seats in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, in a total of 15 provinces, [17] including the constituency regrouping Tehran, Ray, Shemiran, Eslamshahr and Pardis, which amount to thirty seats, among which 14 were filled in the first round. [4] Scheduled for May, the exact date of the second round is not yet known. [28]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | ||
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Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces | – | ||||
Unity Council | – | ||||
Voice of the Nation | – | ||||
People's Alliance of Islamic Revolution | – | ||||
Independents | – | ||||
Seats reserved for religious minorities | 5 | ||||
Total | 5 | ||||
Total votes | 24,861,542 | – | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 61,172,298 | 40.64 | |||
Source: Isna, Guardian |
The US State Department said that it did not expect the elections to be "be free and fair", noting the disqualification of thousands of candidates in an "opaque process" as well as the "undemocratic and non-transparent administrative, judicial and electoral systems" of the Iranian political system. [24]
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