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1992 Iranian legislative election

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Field	Value
country	Iran
type	legislative
previous_year	1988
election_date	10 April and 8 May 1992
next_year	1996
seats_for_election	All 270 seats in the Islamic Consultative Assembly
majority_seats	136
registered	32,465,558
turnout	57.71
image1	[[File:Mahdavi Kani in 1981.jpg	113px]]
leader1	Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
party1	Combatant Clergy Association {{collapsible list
titlestyle	font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:center;
title	and allies
leaders_seat1	Did not stand
alliance1	Right
seats1	122≈150
colour1	no
image2	[[File:Karubi2.jpg	128px]]
party2	Association of Combatant Clerics
{{collapsible list
titlestyle	font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:center;
title	and allies
leader2	Mehdi Karoubi
seats2	40≈79
leaders_seat2	Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat (defeated)
alliance2	Left
colour2	no
title	Speaker
before_election	Mehdi Karoubi
before_party	ACC
after_election	Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
after_party	CCA

| Islamic Coalition Society | Islamic Society of Students | Islamic Society of Engineers | Zeynab Society {{collapsible list | Association of the Women | Office for Strengthening Unity | Worker House | Islamic Association of Engineers | Islamic Association of University Instructors | Islamic Association of Teachers

Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 10 April 1992, with a second round on 8 May. The elections were the first parliamentary elections held in Iran since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini and during Ali Khamenei's leadership.

It marked a rivalry between the two main organizations at the time, the right-wing Combatant Clergy Association (supporters of President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani) and the left-wing Association of Combatant Clerics. The results marked a victory for the right-wingers who obtained an absolute majority with more than 70 percent of the seats.

Campaign

Main groups contesting in the elections were:

Combatant Clergy Association, endorsed by Islamic Aligned Organizations
Association of Combatant Clerics, backed by the Association of the Women of the Islamic Republic and Coalition of Imam's Line groups, including student association Office for Strengthening Unity and trade union Worker House.

Freedom Movement of Iran, the political group led by Mehdi Bazargan, boycotted the elections on the grounds that their rights to compete in fair elections had been curbed and there was official discrimination toward them.

The duration of official campaigns started one week after Ramadan and were limited to seven days, ending 24 hours before the polling process started. The candidates and campaigners were obliged to focus on their merits, rather than negative campaigning. Several taboos on advertisements were broken during the elections, for the first time foreign academic credentials received positive publicity and some campaign literatures were void of regular political and ideological jargon (such as following Imam's Line or highlighting activities against Shah's regime).

Disqualifications

Some 3,150 candidates registered to run for a seat, but the Guardian Council disqualified about one-third of them, approving only some 2,050. Among the disqualified candidates, 39 were incumbent MPs either belonged to or had sympathized with the Association of Combatant Clerics, including Sadegh Khalkhali, Ateghe Sediqi, Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi, Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani and Ebrahim Asgharzadeh. Behzad Nabavi and Mohammad Khatami, Iran's next president were also disqualified to run.

Results

;Baktiari (1996) The table below only includes seats decided in the first round of voting:

Round 1	Electoral list	Seats
Combatant Clergy Association	81	62.3
Association of Combatant Clerics	20	15.4
Independents	29	22.3
Total	130	48.14
Undecided seats	140	51.85
Source: Baktiari

;Nohlen et al. (2001)

Party	Seats	%
Combatant Clergy Association and allies	150	55.6
Association of Combatant Clerics and allies	0	0
Independents	120	44.4
Total	270	100
Source: Nohlen et al.

;Rakel (2008) According to Eva Rakel, the radical left faction gained 79 out of 270 parliamentary seats.

;Alem (2011)

Faction	Seats
Right	122
Left	40
Source: Alem{{citation	title=Duality by Design: The Iranian Electoral System	author=Yasmin Alem	place=Washington, D.C.	year=2011	isbn=978-1-931459-59-4	page=75	quote=The left, however, lost the 1992 Majlis elections to the right after the Guardian Council rejected the credentials of 1,100 candidates, including 40 incumbents... Conservatives won 122 seats in the 1992 elections, while the left suffered a major electoral defeat with only 40 seats.}}

;Inter-Parliamentary Union According to Inter-Parliamentary Union, some three-fourths of the seats were controlled by the Combatant Clergy Association, who secured 134 seats in the first round.

Round 1	Round 2
Valid votes	18,476,051
Blank or invalid votes	327,107
Total votes	18,803,158
Valid votes	7,375,330
Blank or invalid votes	109,767
Total votes	7,485,097
Source: Inter-Parliamentary Union

References

"1992 Parliamentary Election". Princeton University.
(2001). "Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook". [[Oxford University Press]].
Farzin Sarabi. (1994). "The Post-Khomeini Era in Iran: The Elections of the Fourth Islamic Majlis". Middle East Institute.
(1996). "Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics". [[University Press of Florida]].
Rakel, Eva. (2008). "Power, Islam, and Political Elite in Iran: A Study on the Iranian Political Elite from Khomeini to Ahmadinejad". Brill Publishers.
"Parliamentary Chamber: Majles Shoraye Eslami, ELECTIONS HELD IN 1992". [[Inter-Parliamentary Union]].

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