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1984 Iranian legislative election

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Field	Value
country	Iran
type	parliamentary
previous_year	1980
election_date	15 April and 17 May 1984
next_year	1988
seats_for_election	All 270 seats in the Islamic Consultative Assembly
majority_seats	136
registered	24,143,498
turnout	64.64%
<!-- person 1 -->	colour1	000000
image1	President Ali Khamenei speech at 2nd legislature of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Cropped).jpg
party1	Islamic Republican Party
alliance1	right
leader1	Ali Khamenei
leaders_seat1	Did not stand
party2	Office for Strengthening Unity
alliance2	left
leader2	Mehdi Karroubi
leaders_seat2	Did not stand
<!-- legislative or parliamentary -->	leader_since1	1981
last_election1	85
seats1	130
seat_change1	45
percentage1	48.14%
<!-- -->	title	Prime Minister
before_election	Mir-Hossein Mousavi
before_party	Islamic Republican Party
after_election	Mir-Hossein Mousavi
after_party	Islamic Republican Party

Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 15 April 1984, with a second round on 17 May. The majority of seats were won by independents, whilst the Islamic Republican Party was the only party to win seats. Voter turnout was 65.1% in the first round.

The Freedom Movement of Iran declared that it would boycott the elections after its headquarters was attacked and the authorities refused to permit the party to hold two seminars.

Background

The election was held under conditions of severe sanctions on politic and economical sector as well as war with Iraq's Baathist government (Iran–Iraq War). This election was also first time since the 1979 revolution where only left or right religious parties was allowed to participate (as other political parties were banned and even dissolved before this election).

Conduct

The election was held under conditions of war with Iraq's Baathist government (Iran–Iraq War), caused many cities in border with Iraq were severely destroyed (or could not hold direct election). Therefore. this election was conducted with two ways:

Direct national election (for areas that were not heavily affected by war and also for religious minorities seats)
Indirect national election (for areas that were heavily affected by war, mainly in border areas with Iraq)

Out of 193 constituencies, 187 (including 5 electoral districts for religious minorities) hold direct election while the six others hold indirect elections. These six were:

Mehran (Ilam & Mehran constituency) – Ilam province
Dehloran (Dehloran & Darreh Shahr constituency) – Ilam province
Abadeh (Abadeh constituency) – Fars province
Susangerd (Dasht-e-Azadegan constituency) – Khuzestan province
Khorramshahr (Khorramshahr constituency) – Khuzestan province
Qasr-e-Shirin (Qasr-e-Shirin & Sarpol-e-Zahab constituency) – Kermanshah province

Results

130 seats were elected in second round.

Aftermath

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani remained in his position as Speaker of Majlis

During the term of the Majlis, five by-elections were held.

References

"1984 Parliamentary Election". Princeton University.
[[Dieter Nohlen]], Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p68 {{ISBN. 0-19-924958-X
Nohlen et al., p69
Houchang E. Chehabi. (1990). "Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini". I.B.Tauris.

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