| Election Name: | 1992 Iranian legislative election |
| Country: | Iran |
| Type: | legislative |
| Vote Type: | Popular |
| Previous Year: | 1988 |
| Election Date: | 10 April and 8 May 1992 |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
| Seats For Election: | All 270 seats of Islamic Consultative Assembly |
| Majority Seats: | 136 |
| Registered: | 32,465,558 |
| Turnout: | 57.71 |
| Leader1: | Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani |
| Leaders Seat1: | Did not stand |
| Alliance1: | Right |
| Seats1: | 122≈150 |
| Colour1: | no |
| Party2: | Association of Combatant Clerics |
| Leader2: | Mehdi Karoubi |
| Seats2: | 40≈79 |
| Leaders Seat2: | Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat (defeated) |
| Alliance2: | Left |
| Colour2: | no |
| Speaker | |
| Before Election: | Mehdi Karoubi |
| Before Party: | ACC |
| After Election: | Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri |
| After Party: | CCA |
Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 10 April 1992, with a second round on 8 May.[1] The elections were the first parliamentary elections held in Iran since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini and during Ali Khamenei's leadership.
It marked a rivalry between the two main organizations at the time, the right-wing Combatant Clergy Association (supporters of President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani) and the left-wing Association of Combatant Clerics. The results marked a victory for the right-wingers who obtained an absolute majority with more than 70 percent of the seats.[2]
Main groups contesting in the elections were:[2]
Freedom Movement of Iran, the political group led by Mehdi Bazargan, boycotted the elections on the grounds that their rights to compete in fair elections had been curbed and there was official discrimination toward them.[2]
The duration of official campaigns started one week after Ramadan and were limited to seven days, ending 24 hours before the polling process started.[2] The candidates and campaigners were obliged to focus on their merits, rather than negative campaigning. Several taboos on advertisements were broken during the elections, for the first time foreign academic credentials received positive publicity and some campaign literatures were void of regular political and ideological jargon (such as following Imam's Line or highlighting activities against Shah's regime).[2]
Some 3,150 candidates registered to run for a seat, but the Guardian Council disqualified about one-third of them, approving only some 2,050.[2] Among the disqualified candidates, 39 were incumbent MPs either belonged to or had sympathized with the Association of Combatant Clerics, including Sadegh Khalkhali, Ateghe Sediqi, Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi, Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani and Ebrahim Asgharzadeh. Behzad Nabavi and Mohammad Khatami, Iran's next president were also disqualified to run.[2]
| Round 1 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral list | Seats | |||||||
| Combatant Clergy Association | 81 | 62.3 | ||||||
| Association of Combatant Clerics | 20 | 15.4 | ||||||
| Independents | 29 | 22.3 | ||||||
| Total | 130 | 48.14 | ||||||
| Undecided seats | 140 | 51.85 | ||||||
| Source: Baktiari[3] | ||||||||
| Party | Seats | % |
|---|---|---|
| Combatant Clergy Association and allies | 150 | 55.6 |
| Association of Combatant Clerics and allies | 0 | 0 |
| Independents | 120 | 44.4 |
| Total | 270 | 100 |
| Source: Nohlen et al. |
| Faction | Seats |
|---|---|
| Right | 122 |
| Left | 40 |
| Source: Alem |
| Round 1 | |
|---|---|
| Valid votes | 18,476,051 |
| Blank or invalid votes | 327,107 |
| Total votes | 18,803,158 |
| Round 2 | |
| Valid votes | 7,375,330 |
| Blank or invalid votes | 109,767 |
| Total votes | 7,485,097 |
| Source: Inter-Parliamentary Union | |