Eponym Group Explained

The Eponym Group
Founder:	Mehdi Bazargan Yadollah Sahabi Mohammad-Taqi Shariati Abolfazl Zanjani^[1]
Foundation:	2 February 1980
Religion:	Islam
Country:	Iran

The Eponym Group (Persian: گروه همنام; Hamnam) was an electoral list for the 1980 Iranian legislative election claiming "it would choose its candidates based on merit without regard to party affiliation".^[1] Close to the Freedom Movement, the group formed a minority in the parliament with approximately 15 to 23 seats.^[2] Due to internal conflicts, the Freedom Movement did not issue a list but its members were included in the Eponym list. The list had members of Freedom Movement, JAMA and Islamic Republican Party.^[1]

Election results

Constituency	Candidate	1st round				2nd round
		Votes	%	Rank	Result	Votes	%	Rank	Result
Tehran, Rey &<br>Shemiranat	Hassan Habibi	1,552,478	72.7	2nd	Won
	Mehdi Bazargan	1,447,316	67.8	3rd	Won
	Ali Akbar Moinfar	1,439,360	67.4	4th	Won
	Mohammad Ali Rajai	1,209,012	56.6	12th	Won
	Ebrahim Yazdi	1,128,304	52.9	15th	Won
	Mostafa Chamran	1,100,842	51.5	17th	Won
	Ezatollah Sahabi	1,070,929	50.2	18th	Won
	Yadollah Sahabi	868,745	40.7	20th	Run-off	817,819	50	5th	Won
	Hashem Sabbaghian	804,411	37.7	23rd	Run-off	692,633	42.4	11th	Won
	Mohammad Tavasoli	747,666	35.1	24th	Run-off	618,924	37.9	15th	Defeated
	Fathollah Banisadr	581,337	27.2	36th	Run-off	609,172	37.3	16th	Defeated
	Abdolali Bazargan	455,727	21.4	42nd	Run-off	581,730	35.6	18th	Defeated
	Mostafa Katiraei	385,201	18	48th	Defeated
	Ali Sadeghi-Tehrani	364,950	17.1	51st	Defeated
	Ali-Asghar Behzadnia	207,869	9.7	72nd	Defeated
	Jalaleddin Ashtiani	129,147	6.05	88th	Defeated
	Ali Danesh-Monfared	128,553	6.02	89th	Defeated
	Mahmoud Manian	100,856	4.72	89th	Defeated

Notes and References

1. Book: Houchang E. Chehabi. Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. 283–286. 1990. 1850431981.
2. Book: Bahman Bakhtiari. Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics. University Press of Florida. 69. 1996. 0813014611.