2013 Tehran City Council election explained

Election Name:	Islamic City Council of Tehran election, 2013
Country:	Iran
Type:	parliamentary
Vote Type:	Popular
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	Tehran City Council election, 2006
Previous Year:	2006
Election Date:	14 June 2013
Next Election:	Tehran City Council election, 2017
Next Year:	2017
Seats For Election:	31 City Council seats
Majority Seats:	16
Alliance1:	Conservatives
Chairman
Before Election:	Mehdi Chamran
Before Party:	Principlist
After Election:	Ahmad Masjed-Jamei

An election to the Islamic City Council of Tehran took place on 14 June 2013, along with the local elections nationwide.

The council is elected by the plurality-at-large voting system. The Principlists gained majority with 18 seats, while the Reformists had endorsed 13 winners in their list.^[1]

Results

	Candidate	Electoral list							Votes	%
	Candidate	RC	PV	PJP	ABII	FLIL	FIRS	AM	Votes	%
align=center colspan="11"	↓ 31 Sitting Members ↓
1									566,614	20.34
2	Alireza Dabir								400,677	14.38
3									281,548	10.10
4	Hossein Rezazadeh								270,390	9.70
5	Habib Kashani								266,533	9.57
6	Hadi Saei								260,457	9.35
7	Morteza Talaie								242,386	8.70
8	Parviz Sorouri								199,956	7.18
9	Reza Taghipour								186,020	6.68
10	Elaheh Rastgou								179,982	6.46
11	Abbas Sheybani								173,277	6.22
12	Esmaeil Dousti								158,707	5.70
13	Ahmad Donyamali								157,277	5.64
14	Mohammad Salari								155,138	5.57
15	Mohammad-Mehdi Tondgouyan								154,921	5.56
16	Fatemeh Daneshvar								144,792	5.20
17	Ahmad Hakimipour								137,694	4.94
18	Mohammad Haghani								135,100	4.85
19	Mojtaba Shakeri								130,269	4.68
20	Abdolhossein Mokhtabad								129,969	4.66
21	Rahmatollah Hafezi								129,832	4.66
22	Abolfazl Ghana'ati								127,664	4.58
23	Eghbal Shakeri								127,558	4.58
24	Mehdi Hojjat								127,252	4.57
25	Gholamreza Ansari								126,500	4.54
26	Masoumeh Abad								122,790	4.41
27	Abolmoghim Nasehi								119,826	4.30
28	Mohsen Sorkhou								118,745	4.26
29	Abbas Jadidi								117,503	4.22
30	Mohsen Pirhadi								114,495	4.11
31	Mohammad Mehdi Mofatteh								114,439	4.11
align=center colspan="11"	↓ 12 Alternate Members ↓
32	Masoud Soltanifar								114,118	4.10
33	Valiollah Shojapourian								110,696	3.97
34	Ali Saberi								109,411	3.93
35	Afshin Habibzadeh								108,059	3.88
36	Hassan Khalilabadi								106,731	3.83
37	Zahra Sadre'azam-Nouri								105,896	3.80
38	Faezeh Dolati								105,675	3.79
39	Abbas Mirza-Aboutalebi								104,591	3.75
40	Abbas Masjedi-Arani								104,273	3.74
41	Adel Abdi								104,176	3.74
42	Khosro Daneshjou								103,949	3.73
43	Hassan Ghafourifard								101,822	3.65
align=center colspan="11"	↓ Defeated ↓
44	Mohammad Saeidnejad								101,683	3.65
45	Seyyed Hassan E'temadzadeh								101,603	3.65
46	Afshin Ala'								101,542	3.64
47	Siavash Shahrivar								101,034	3.63
48	Somayeh Boroujerdi								100,510	3.61
49	Alireza Ali-Ahmadi								99,019	3.55
50	Seyyed Mehdi Nademi								98,970	3.55
51	Seyyed Abolhassan Riazi								98,628	3.54
52	Mohsen Mansouri								95,509	3.43
53	Mohammad Mirzaei								94,758	3.40
54	Behrouz Shojaei								94,446	3.39
55	Ali Nozarpour								89,385	3.21
56	Seyyed Afzal Mousavi								87,465	3.14
57	Hossein Sari								86,418	3.10
58	Bahman Adibzadeh								85,109	3.05
59	Hassan Bayadi								84,289	3.03
60	Hassan Hamidzadeh								75,190	2.70
61	Seyyed Manaaf Hashemi								74,178	2.66
62	Vahid Norouzi								73,266	2.63
63	Irandokht Fayyaz								67,022	2.41
64	Fazel Nazari								65,183	2.34
65	Sedigheh Hekmat								61,915	2.22
66	Ali Rajabi								61,083	2.19
67	Mohammad-Hashem Ghoroghi								60,054	2.16
68	Alireza Saffarzadeh								60,005	2.15
69	Morteza Ghoroghi								59,661	2.14
70	Eshrat Shayegh								56,601	2.03
71	Abdolhossein Nasseri								55,641	1.99
72	Ebrahim Bazian								54,635	1.96
73	Ahmad Cheldavi								53,892	1.93
74	Jalil Nikzad-Samarin								53,811	1.93
75	Amireddin Sadrnejad								53,658	1.92
76	Majid Shayesteh								53,120	1.90
77	Vadoud Heydari								51,709	1.85
78	Zahra Soltani								51,025	1.83
79	Reza Moghaddas								50,660	1.81
80	Afshin Parvinpour								50,370	1.80
81	Abdolreza Sheykholeslami								50,179	1.80
82	Mohammad-Reza Tabatabaei								49,677	1.78
83	Ferdos Ghomashchi								49,621	1.78
84	Rasoul Abbasi								49,469	1.78
85	Saeid Ghofrani								48,930	1.76
86	Morteza Mahmoudi								48,914	1.76
87	Mahnoosh Motamedi Azari								47,253	1.70
88	Asadollah Asgaroladi								44,441	1.59
89	Ahmad Sadeghi								43,866	1.57
90	Mohammad-Reza Mirmohammadi								42,307	1.52
91	Habibollah Kasesaz								42,097	1.51
92	Mahmoud Saber-Hamishegi								40,730	1.46
93	Ebrahim Ansarian								40,281	1.45
94	Hossein Khanlari								39,826	1.43
95	Seyyed Hadi Hashemi								37,433	1.34
96	Rahim Khaki								36,727	1.32
97	Parvin Ahmadinejad								35,339	1.27
98	Majid Fahmideh								35,154	1.26
99	Esmat Nazeri								35,154	1.26
100	Arash Miresmaeili								33,549	1.20

Invalid/blank votes									543,695	19.51
Total Votes									2,786,357	100
Source: Ministry of Interior / Asriran / Khabaronline / Fars / Fars / Entekhab / Asriran

Notes and References

Web site: Reformists return to power in Iran’s local elections. Asharq Al Awsat. 1 April 2017. 20 June 2013. Ali M. Pedram. Thirty-one council seats were up for grabs in Tehran, with 13 going to reformists. Although conservatives won 18 seats in the capital in total... Although the composition of Tehran’s new city council appears to give conservatives a majority with 18 seats, four of these were won by previously apolitical celebrity athletes, who observers speculate may be open to changing their affiliation in the future.. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103239/http://english.aawsat.com/2013/06/article55306487. 4 March 2016.