Iranian local elections, 1999

City and Village Councils elections
Iran
February 26, 1999 (1999-02-26)
≈200,000 Seats in City and Village Councils
Registered 36,739,982[1]
Turnout 64.42%[1]
Votes casted 23,668,739[1]

The elections for City and Village Councils of Iran were held on 26 February 1999, for the first time in the history of Iran to elect some 200,000 seats.[2]

These elections saw great levels of public participation and civic engagement and still tend to be viewed as an "historic moment"[2] and important opportunity for citizens to play an active part in the management of their municipalities at a local level.[3]

In many large cities, especially Tehran and Isfahan, candidates from 2nd of Khordad movement won the elections. Independents were elected in most rural areas, reflecting concern for local issues which competed with the wider national debate over an emerging “civil society.”[4]

Results

Tehran

Winners of 15 seats and 6 alternate members were:

# Candidate Supporting Camp/List[5][6] Votes[7] %[7]
↓ Sitting Members ↓
1 Abdollah Nouri (Resigned) 2nd of Khordad (Combatant Clerics) 588,633 41.94
2 Saeed Hajjarian 2nd of Khordad (Participation) 386,069 27.50
3 Jamileh Kadivar (Resigned) 2nd of Khordad 369,669 26.34
4 Fatemeh Jalaeipour 2nd of Khordad (Participation) 350,173 24.95
5 Ebrahim Asgharzadeh 2nd of Khordad (Solidarity) 347,173 24.73
6 Mohammad Atrianfar 2nd of Khordad (Executives) 322,897 23.00
7 Ahmad Hakimipour 2nd of Khordad (Imam's Line) 304,460 21.69
8 Mohammad-Hossein Doroudian 2nd of Khordad (Strengthening Unity) 279,964 19.94
9 Mahmoud Alizadeh-Tabatabaei 2nd of Khordad (Executives) 260,462 18.55
10 Morteza Lotfi 2nd of Khordad (Islamic Labour) 224,867 16.02
11 Rahmatollah Khosravi 2nd of Khordad (Imam's Line) 220,021 15.67
12 Gholamreza Forouzesh 2nd of Khordad (Executives) 245,520 15.35
13 Sedigheh Vasmaghi 2nd of Khordad (Participation) 210,303 14.98
14 Abbas Douzdouzani 2nd of Khordad (Participation) 200,521 14.28
15 Mohammad Gharazi (Resigned) 2nd of Khordad (Executives) 192,211 13.69
↓ Alternate Members ↓
16 Davoud Soleymani (Resigned) 2nd of Khordad (Participation) 190,772 13.59
17 Mohammad-Hossein Haghighi (Entered council) 2nd of Khordad (Participation) 176,556 12.58
18 Amir Abedini (Entered council) Independent (Not listed) 176,289 12.56
19 Mansour Razavi (Entered council) 2nd of Khordad (Executives) 167,288 11.92
20 Yahya Ale Eshaq Conservative (Islamic Coalition) 165,217 11.77
21 Mohammad Kazem Seifian Conservative 152,106 10.83
Valid Votes1,403,389
Total Votes1,480,275

Shahla Habibi, Mohammad Khakpour, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Nabi Habibi and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were among notable candidates who lost the election.[2][6]

Isfahan

Reformist groupings won 7 out of 11 positions on the Isfahan council.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "1999 Municipal Councils Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, retrieved 10 August 2015
  2. 1 2 3 "Iran prepares for first-ever local elections", BBC, 10 February 1999, retrieved 10 March 2016
  3. ↑ Reza H. Akbari and Saeed Aganji (19 May 2013). "Why Iran's City Council Elections Matter". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  4. 1 2 Peter Kiernan, "Iran's Reformers Dominate Council Elections", Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (April/May 1999), pp. 66, 102
  5. ↑ Azadeh Mohammad-Hossein (27 April 2013) [7 Ordibehesht 1392], "داستان یک شورا", Shargh (in Persian) (1717)
  6. 1 2 Ahmad Hakimipour, "انتخابات اولین دوره شورای اسلامی شهر تهران", Ahmad Hakimipour Official Website (in Persian)
  7. 1 2 Omid Karimi, "در ۳ دوره گذشته شورای شهر تهران هر نماینده چه تعداد و چند درصد رای آورد؟", Khabaronline (in Persian)
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