Second 1981 Presidential Election

Date of Election 2 October 1981
Number of Eligible Voters  22,687,017
Number of Actual Voters 16,847,717
Voter Turnout (%) 74.26%
Number of Candidates Registered to Run  46
Number of Candidates Allowed to Run 4
Percentage of Candidates Allowed to Run 8.69%
Election Winner Seyyed Ali Khamenei
Number and Percentage of Votes Received by Winner 16,008,579 (95.05%)
First Runner-Up Seyyed Ali-Akhbar Parvaresh
First Runner-Up Number and Percentage of Votes Received 341,874 (2.02%)
Margin of Victory by the Winner 93.0%
Names and Votes of Other Candidates Sayyed Reza Zavarehi, 59,058 (.36%)

Hasan Ghafouri-Fard, 80,545 (.27%)

Nullified Votes 356,411

Breakdown of Votes By Province

Province   Eligible Voters     Votes   Turnout (percent)
East Azerbaijan  1,938,108  1,524,463 78.66
West Azerbaijan  896,767  526,671 58.73
Esfahan  1,488,622  1,243,068 83.5
Ilam  152,856  163,655 107.06
Bushehr  247,233  186,727 75.53
Tehran  4,260,545  2,752,151 64.6
Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari  251,700  184,097 73.14
Razavi Khorasan  2,249,140  1,668,168 74.17
Khuzestan  1,279,703  697,353 54.49
Zanjan  705,450  630,538 89.38
Semnan  203,413  177,714 87.37
Sistan and Baluchestan  457,280  217,684 47.6
Fars  1,379,264  1,207,693 87.56
Kurdistan  486,931  235,980 48.46
Kerman  707,790  590,415 83.42
Kermanshah  664,862  413,586 62.21
Kohgiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad  155,767  136,592 87.69
Gilan  1,026,556  661,192 64.41
Lorestan  574,964  670,085 116.54
Mazandaran  1,550,718  1,144,141 73.78
Markazi  751,455  755,174 100.49
Hormozgan  321,333  205,644 64
Hamadan  682,802  533,618 78.15
Yazd  253,758  210,972 83.14
Iran (total)  22,687,017  16,847,717

(including Iranians abroad)

74.26