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2006 Iranian local elections
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| election_name | 2006 Iranian City and Village Islamic Councils elections |
| country | Iran |
| type | |
| vote_type | Popular |
| previous_election | 2003 Iranian local elections |
| previous_year | 2003 |
| election_date | |
| next_election | Iranian local elections, 2013 |
| next_year | 2013 |
| alliance1 | Principlists |
| 1data1 | |
| 2data1 | |
| 3data1 | |
| alliance2 | Reformists |
| 1data2 | |
| 2data2 | |
| 3data2 | |
| 1blank | Provincial capitals |
| per Hamshahri | |
| 2blank | per Fars |
| 3blank | per IRNA |
per Hamshahri
The Iranian City and Village Councils election of 2006 took place on December 15, 2006. People elected representatives for City and Village Councils, who in their turn elected the mayors.
The elections happened on the same day as the election for the Assembly of Experts.
Candidates
Every city and village in the country elected representatives. Iran's 46.5 million eligible voters elected about 233,000 candidates for more than 113,000 city and rural council posts.
Results
According The Financial Times, partial results about cities other than Tehran indicated:
- In Isfahan, Ahmadinejad's supporters won 3 out of 11 seats
- In Tabriz, Ahmadinejad's supporters won 4 out of 16 seats
- In Qom, Ahmadinejad's supporters won 3 out of 9 seats
- In Shiraz, Ahmadinejad's supporters won 1 out of 11 seats
- In Ardabil, Ahmadinejad's supporters won 1 out of 9 seats
Safdar Hosseini, the provincial campaign coordinator for the Reformists Coalition, claimed that the reformists had won most of the 1,524 seats for municipal councils in 265 cities and that most of the independents have "reformist leanings". According to him, the results were as follows:
| Conservatives | Reformists | Independents | PSS | Others |
|---|
The results in provincial capitals were reported by Iranian media as follows:
| Conservatives | Reformists | Independents | PSS | Others |
|---|
Controversy about the results
The reformist candidates protested Ministry of Interior delays in announcing provisional results, and its failure to announce provisional results for two days after the end of the election. This contravened normal practice, where results were announced gradually as vote counting was under way. The candidates also claimed fraud in counting the votes, mentioning lost vote boxes and newly found boxes that reported zero votes for the reformist candidates.
References
References
- Seyyed Masoud Razavi Faqih. (17 March 2007). "تحلیلی بر انتخابات ۲۴ آذر". Hamshahri Online.
- (17 December 2006). "گزارش اختصاصي فارس از گرايش منتخبين شوراها در مراكز استانها: اصولگرايان و مستقلها ۷۲ درصد كرسی شوراها در مركز استانها را كسب كردند". Fars News Agency.
- (19 December 2006). "آرايش سياسی منتخبان شوراها". Ebtekar newspaper.
- (2006-12-17). "Ahmadi-Nejad suffers vote setback in Iran". [[Financial Times]].
- (3 January 2007). "Iran Report". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
- (2006-12-17). "10 boxes were lost (۱۰ صندوق گم شد)".
- (2006-12-20). "Five new boxes entered the vote counting site four days after the end of voting (پنج صندوق جدید، چهار روز پس از پایان رأیگیری به سایت شمارش آرا وارد شد)".
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