Iranian legislative election, 2008 (Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr)

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2008 legislative election
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  2006 14 March and 25 April 2008 2012  
Alliance United Front of Principlists Principlists Pervasive Coalition
Seats won
29 / 30
8 / 30
Alliance Reformists Coalition Popular Coalition of Reforms
Seats won
1 / 30
0 / 30

This is an overview of the 2008 Iranian legislative election in Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district.

Contents

Results

First round

#CandidateList(s) [1] [2] Votes [3] [4] %
UFP PPC RC PCR
Elected Members
1 Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel YesYes844,23049.48
2 Morteza Agha-Tehrani Yes584,19833.56
3 Ali Motahari YesYes571,07133.08
4 Ahmad Tavakoli YesYes568,45932.65
5 Hassan Ghafourifard YesYes556,21731.95
6 Mohammad Reza Bahonar Yes549,28031.55
7 Bijan Nobaveh-Vatan Yes537,17930.86
8 Shahab od-Din Sadr Yes533,56530.65
9 Alireza Marandi Yes528,25630.34
10 Hamid Reza Katouzian YesYes500,64428.76
11 Ali Abbaspour YesYes485,77127.9
12 Esmaeil Kousari YesYes471,93627.11
13 Reza Akrami Yes448,49825.76
14 Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghadam YesYes444,12825.76
15 Fatemeh Rahbar Yes443,51825.48
16 Fatemeh Alia Yes443,31425.46
17 Ruhollah Hosseinian Yes437,10725.11
18 Hossein Nejabat Yes437,10525.11
19 Asadollah Badamchian Yes436,61125.08
Went to Run-off
20 Ali-Asghar Zarei Yes423,14224.31
21 Elyas Naderan Yes421,06324.19
22 Laleh Eftekhari Yes420,02824.13
23 Mehdi Kouchakzadeh Yes419,64124.1
24 Alireza Zakani Yes418,83623.06
25 Hossein Fadaee Yes390,98322.46
26 Hamid Rasaee Yes380,88721.88
27 Parviz Sorouri Yes372,62621.4
28 Nasrin Soltankhah Yes352,69720.26
29 Majid Ansari YesYes346,26119.89
30 Zohreh Elahian Yes345,86219.87
31 Tayebeh Safaei Yes345,03019.82
32 Alireza Mahjoub Yes308,42917.72
33 Soheila Jolodarzadeh Yes303,30817.42
34 Mahmoud Doayi Yes259,29314.89
35 Eshaq Jahangiri YesYes257,56014.79
36 Elias Hazrati YesYes233,31213.4
37 Elaheh Rastgou YesYes228,57113.13
38Mohammad SadrYesYes228,57113.13
39 Mohammad Khoshchehreh Yes210,57112.1
40Mohammad QomiYesYes209,46912.03
41Mohammad Ashrafi-EsfahaniYes208,98112
Defeated
42Abbas-Ali ZaliYes203,61111.69
43 Najafqoli Habibi YesYes201,63011.58
44Hossein Abedi-JafariYesYes193,51811.11
45 Javad Etaat YesYes185,55310.65
46Asadollah Kian-ErsiYesYes169,0299.7
47Kamel TaghavinejadYesYes167,2949.6
48Narges KarimiYes157,7619.06
49Behzad Ghareh-YaziYesYes155,5538.93
50 Hossein Mozaffar Yes153,6938.82
51 Nafiseh Fayyazbakhsh Yes153,0618.79
52Tayebeh GolpayeganiYes152,3568.75
53Vahid MahmoudiYes149,3798.85
54Abolfazl ShakouriYesYes147,1108.45
55 Alireza Rahimi YesYes144,9958.32
56 Hassan Khalilabadi Yes141,4498.12
57 Afshin Habibzadeh YesYes140,1948.05
58 Afzal Mousavi Yes137,9437.92
59Habib AjayebiYes135,9927.81
60 Amir Reza Khadem Yes134,7087.73
61Azam Khoshkholgh-SimaYes134,6367.73
62Farahnaz MinaeipourYes132,5667.61
63Mohammad Jamshidi-GohariYes128,6547.38
64Saeid MoayyadfarYes123,1057.07
65 Fatemeh Karroubi Yes116,6116.69
66Adel AzarYesYes104,7786.01
67 Mohammad Mayeli Kohan 95,8785.5
68 Rasoul Montajabnia Yes92,6135.31
69 Ali Fathollahzadeh Yes92,3355.3
70 Saeid Aboutaleb Yes92,2415.29
71 Reza Talaei-Nik YesYes88,9025.1
72 Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani Yes88,1635.06
73Mir-Mohammad SadeghiYes79,1254.54
74 Elham Aminzadeh Yes61,1203.51
75 Mohammad Mir-Mohammadi Yes55,1253.16
76 Seyyed Ali Riaz Yes52,5863.02
77Esmaeil Gerami-MoghadamYes47,9622.75
78 Ebrahim Asgharzadeh Yes44,9842.58
79 Parviz Kazemi Yes41,9772.41
80Ghadir-Ali Ab-Peykaran40,9892.35
81Emad Abshenas33,6891.93
82 Hossein Sheikholeslam Yes30,9591.77
83 Masoud Soltanifar Yes30,0641.72
84Hossein Kanaani-MoghadamYes29,8821.71
85Ebrahim AnsarianYes27,6271.58
86 Abbas Akhoundi 27,4341.57
87Rahim Shakouri26,6461.86
88Seyyed Hadi Khatami22,8191.31
89Najmeh GoudarziYes22,3051.28
90Saeid SadeghiYes22,0321.26
91Akhtar DerakhshandehYes21,1741.21
92Abolghasem EghbalianYes21,0001.2
93Mohammad Karbashchi20,3401.16
94Najaf Mahmoudi19,8731.14
95Mansoureh HashemiYes19,7951.14
96Abolfazl Hassan-BeygiYes19,0191.09
97Mohammad Reza Marandi17,9571.03
98 Mohammad-Ali Ramin 17,7621.02
99Sadegh VakilpourYes16,3070.93
100Hossein Eftekhari16,2110.93
Blank or Invalid Votes168,6218.83
Total Votes1,909,562100

Notes and references

    1. فهرست هاي انتخاباتي در ايستگاه آخر (in Persian), Jaam-e Jam, 3 March 2008, retrieved 15 February 2017
    2. Michael Rubin (7 March 2008), "Iran News Round Up", National Review , retrieved 10 February 2016
    3. نتيجه قطعي انتخابات تهران اعلام شد, Fars News Agency (in Persian), 17 March 2008, retrieved 10 February 2016
    4. تعداد و درصد آراء 100 نامزد اول تهران, Asr Iran (in Persian), retrieved 10 February 2016

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