2000 Parliamentary Election

Sixth Parliamentary Election

Date of Election 18 February 2000
Number of Eligible Voters 38,726,431
Number of Actual Voters 26,082,157
Voter Turnout (%) 67.35
Number of Precincts 207
Number of Candidates Needed 290
Number of Candidates Registered to Run 6,853
Number of Candidates Allowed to Run (1) 5,742
Percentage of Candidates Allowed to Run 83.78%
Number of Female Candidates Registered to Run 504
Number of Female Candidates Elected  13

Iranian Ministry of Interior (www.moi.ir).

For Data on Number of Candidate Allowed to Run and Percentage of Candidates Allowed to Run: Markaz-e Asnad-e Enghelab Eslami (www.irdc.ir).

For Data on Female Candidates: Tahereh Pour-Ardeshir,”Gozaresh-e Khaneh-e Mellat az Naqsh-e Zanan-e Qanungozar dar Keshvar,” 6 April 2008.

Notes:

Iran’s Guardian Council has the constitutional right to suspend elections in certain towns and provinces under the pretext that they may cause unrest. In this election, the Council suspended the voting procses in 10 Wards. In Tehran alone, the Guardian Council declared 534 ballot boxes, totaling 726,266 votes, to be invalid. The invalidation of so many votes, amounting to  25 percent of all votes cast in the capital, resulted in dramatic changes in the candidates’ rankings. For instance,   two conservative candidates, ʿAli-Akbar Hāšemi Rafsanjāni and Ḡolām-ʿAli Ḥaddād ʿĀdel, who had fought a losing battle before the cancellation, advanced to the 20th and 28th places, i.e., to the rank of those elected to parliament.

There is no public data on the number of female candidates allowed to run.

(1) Candidates submitting their candidacy are first vetted by the Ministry of Interior and then by the Guardian Council. The number we show under `candidates allowed to run` represents the number of candidates allowed to run after the vetting processes by both the Ministry of Interior and the Guardian Council are completed.

Breakdown of Votes Based on Province

Province  Eligible Voters   Votes  Turnout (percent)
East Azerbaijan  2,249,841  1,511,816 67.2
West Azerbaijan  1,587,634  1,142,351 71.95
Ardabil  737,291  518,051 70.26
Esfahan  2,627,959  1,577,876 60.04
Ilam  295,543  257,165 87.01
Bushehr  468,241  356,953 76.23
Tehran  7,074,191  3,316,582 46.88
Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari  471,709  405,866 86.04
Khorasan  3,779,247  2,765,984 73.19
Khuzestan  2,268,091  1,531,023 67.5
Zanjan  571,848  420,560 73.54
Semnan  338,698  257,829 76.12
Sistan and Baluchestan  916,752  630,638 68.79
Fars  2,447,693  1,790,021 73.13
Qazvin  622,839  438,407 70.39
Qom  510,578  337,078 66.02
Kurdistan  832,236  584,075 70.18
Kerman  1,246,117  952,380 76.43
Kermanshah  1,138,079  817,344 71.82
Kohgiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad  319,748  308,577 96.51
Golestan  888,666  698,899 78.65
Gilan  1,561,159  1,214,971 77.82
Lorestan  985,995  769,626 78.06
Mazandaran  1,782,675  1,341,769 75.27
Markazi  806,164  551,095 68.36
Hormozgan  634,026  452,030 71.3
Hamadan  1,078,510  741,309 68.73
Yazd  484,901  343,645 70.87
Iran (total)  38,726,431  26,082,157 67.35