Iranian legislative election, 1944

Iranian legislative election, 1943–1944
November 1943/February 1944[1]
All 137 seats to the National Consultative Assembly
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Sadegh Tabatabaʾi Ziaʾeddin Tabatabaʾi Ali Dashti
Party National Union Party Fatherland Party Justice Party
Leader's seat Tehran Yazd Tehran
Seats won 30[1] 26[1] 15[1]
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Mehdi Farrokh Reza Radmanesh Mohammad Mosaddegh[lower-alpha 1]
Party Tribal Group[lower-alpha 2]
Prime Minister before election

Ali Soheili

 Elected Prime Minister

Mohammad Sa'ed

The elections for 14th Parliament of Iran was held in November 1943–February 1944 and more than 800 candidates ran for 136 seats. It was "the most prolonged, most competetive and most meaningful of all elections in modern Iran".[1]

Fraction members

Fraction Members Leader
National Unity (Ettehad Melli)33Mohammad-Sadegh Tabatabaei
Individuals (Monfaredin)30Mohammad Mossadegh
Homeland (Mihan)24Hadi Taheri
Independent (Mostaghel)15Ali Dashti
Freedom (Azadi)11Mohammad Vali Farmanfarmaian
Democrat8Mehdi Farrokh
Tudeh6Fereydoun Keshavarz
Source: Majlis Research Center[2]:269–270

References

  1. ↑ Mosaddegh took pride of being an Independent politician at the time and was not a member of Iran Party. However his views often coincided with the party which campaigned on his behalf.[1]
  2. ↑ Tough not an organized group/party, representatives from tribes and nomad people in Iran were allied.[1]</ref> ningful of all elections in modern Iran" Tudeh Party s== {| class=wikitable style=text-align: Iran Party !M be ! ad | |a gn ef |[[National Union Party (Ir Leader's seat (''Ettehad Melli'')||33||[[Mohammad-Sad Sistan uals (''Monfaredin'')||30||[[Mohammad Mo Lahijan i Taheri |- |align=left|Independent (''M Tehran [[ ha ad al Mirza Farman Farmaian|Moha Seats won farmaian]] |- |align=left|Democrat||8||[ 11[1] lign=left|[[Tudeh Party of Iran|Tudeh]]| 8[1] rz |- !align=left colspan=3|Source: [[Ma 6[1] ]< f me MR /> rp 69 70 = ef en s= {{ te st { ef st } Ir -e ct n- ub { Ir nian election
    te ory:Elections in Iran|1944]]   ory:1944 elections in Asia]] Seventh party in Iran]] Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Mostafa Fateh Ja'far Pishevari Qazi Muhammad Party Comrades Party Azerbaijan Democratic Party[lower-alpha 3] Kurdistan Democratic Party[lower-alpha 3] Leader's seat Did not stand Tabriz Did not stand Seats won 2[1] 1[lower-alpha 4]:290 He was executed after Iran crisis of 1946.
  3. 1 2 The party was established in 1945 and was not present in the elections.
  4. ↑ Pishevari was refused to admit by the Parliament and the seat became vacant in 1944.[2]:266</ref> 1<ref group='lower-alpha'>Seat for Abolqassem Qazi-Sadr, representing Mahabad, Savejbolagh and Mokri and hoing office as "War Minister" in the Republic of Mahabad.<ref name='MRC'>آشنایی با تاریخ مجالس قانونگذاری در ایران دوره اول تا دوره شانزدهم [History of Legislatures in Iran (1285–1328)] (in Persian). Majlis Research Center. 2005 [1384].
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 188−203. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
  2. 1 2
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