Iranian legislative election, 2020 (Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr) explained

Election Name:	2020 legislative election
Country:	Iran
Type:	legislative
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	Iranian legislative election, 2016 (Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr)
Previous Year:	2016
Next Election:	2021 Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis by-election
Next Year:	2021
Votes For Election:	All 30 Seats to the Islamic Consultative Assembly
Alliance1:	Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces
Alliance2:	Front of Islamic Revolution Stability
Alliance3:	Campaign for Justice-seeking Parliament
Alliance4:	People's Coalition
Alliance5:	Coalition For Iran
Alliance6:	Friends of Hashemi

This is an overview of the 2020 Iranian legislative election in Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district. In the election, all 30 seats were decided in the first round and went to the unity list jointly endorsed by the Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces and the Front of Islamic Revolution Stability.

Turnout

The election was noted being held two days after acknowledgement of COVID-19 spread in Iran, as well as for its low turnout, which was the lowest nationwide amidst the lowest national turnout for decades. The turnout was interpreted as a possible sign of apathy and widespread dissatisfaction with the establishment.

Official turnout in the constituency was put at 25.4% by the interior minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, who was quoted by the AP as saying "we believe that the number of votes and the turnout is absolutely acceptable". Ali Motahari, an outgoing MP for the constituency, expressed his regret that only 18% of eligible voters in the city of Tehran had showed up at the polling place, of whom 8% had cast spoilt ballots.^[1]

Results

	Candidate	List(s)^[2]			Votes	%
align=center colspan="9"	↓ Elected Members ↓
1	Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf			Proud Iran	1,265,287	68.69
2	Mostafa Mir-Salim			Proud Iran	892,318	48.45
3	Morteza Aghatehrani			Stability Front	868,025	47.13
4	Elias Naderan			Proud Iran / Stability Front	841,956	45.71
5	Mohsen Dehnavai			Proud Iran / Stability Front	829,292	45.02
6	Mahmoud Nabavian			Proud Iran / Stability Front	821,203	44.58
7	Ehsan Khandouzi			Proud Iran	801,696	43.53
8	Eghbal Shakeri			Proud Iran	795,211	43.17
9	Abolfazl Amouyi			Proud Iran	792,964	43.05
10	Bijan Nobaveh-Vatan			Stability Front	792,565	43.03
11	Mojtaba Tavangar			Proud Iran	789,913	42.89
12	Fatemeh Rahbar			Proud Iran	787,485	42.75
13	Mohsen Pirhadi			Proud Iran	785,450	42.64
14	Rouhollah Izadkhah			Justice Seekers / Stability Front	784,456	42.59
15	Ahmad Naderi			Proud Iran	783,545	42.54
16	Abdolhossein Rouhalamini			Proud Iran	779,479	42.32
17	Nezameddin Mousavi			Proud Iran / Stability Front	778,618	42.27
18	Zohreh Elahian			Proud Iran	773,263	41.98
19	Malek Shariati			Proud Iran	768,139	41.70
20	Mehdi Sharifian			Proud Iran	760,016	41.26
21	Reza Taghavi			Proud Iran	753,307	40.90
22	Somayeh Rafiei			Proud Iran	742,975	40.34
23	Ali Yazdikhah			Proud Iran	742,394	40.31
24	Ali Khezrian			Stability Front	740,033	40.18
25	Reza Taghipour			Stability Front	728,238	39.54
26	Fatemeh Ghasempour			Proud Iran	726,007	39.42
27	Mojtaba Rezakhah			Proud Iran	723,729	39.29
28	Zohreh Lajevardi			Stability Front	714,931	38.82
29	Gholamhossein Rezvani			Stability Front	711,608	38.63
30	Ezzatollah Akbari Talarposhti			Proud Iran	642,214	34.87
align=center colspan="9"	↓ Defeated candidates ↓
31	Vahid Yaminpour			People's Coalition / Stability Front	296,021	16.07
32	Hamid Rasaee			People's Coalition	219,648	11.93
33	Ali Jafari			Stability Front	150,422	8.17
34	Alireza Mahjoub			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	95,393	5.18
35	Mohammad-Sadegh Shahbazi			Justice Seekers / Stability Front	86,180	4.68
36	Majid Ansari			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	69,151	3.75
37	Soheila Jolodarzadeh			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	67,820	3.68
38	Mostafa Kavakebian			For Iran	61,396	3.33
39	Mohammad Hosseini			People's Coalition	55,431	3.01
40	Mohammad Aghamiri			Proud Iran	51,406	2.79
41	Mehdi Kouchakzadeh			People's Coalition	49,326	2.68
42	Ali Shamsipour			Proud Iran	47,511	2.58
43	Mostafa Zamanian			Proud Iran	46,791	2.54
44	Vahid Ashtari				46,588	2.53
45	Hossein Pirhadi	45,956	2.50
46	Mohammad-Sadegh Koushki	45,812	2.49
47	Soudeh Najafi			Proud Iran	44,914	2.44
48	Kioumars Hashemi			Proud Iran	44,562	2.42
49	Atefeh Khademi			Proud Iran	37,663	2.04
50	Zahra Saei			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	36,239	1.97
51	Mohammad Reza Badamchi			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	35,675	1.94
52	Parvaneh Mafi			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	33,609	1.82
53	Mohammad-Ali Vakili			For Iran	31,949	1.73
54	Farideh Oladghobad			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	31,597	1.72
55	Mohammad-Hossein Moghimi			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	31,093	1.69
56	Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani			For Iran	30,537	1.66
57	Mehdi Zaribaf			People's Coalition / Stability Front	30,475	1.65
58	Farid Mousavi			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	28,848	1.57
59	Mohammad Aghamiri	28,525	1.55
60	Mohammad Reza Najafi			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	24,480	1.33
61	Hassan Tarighat Monfared			People's Coalition / Justice Seekers	24,413	1.33
62	Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghaddam			Economy and People's Livelihood	23,102	1.25
63	Afshin Ala'			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	22,897	1.24
64	Davoud Mohammadi			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	21,694	1.18
65	Vahid Toutounchi			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	20,039	1.09
66	Abolfazl Soroush			For Iran	19,459	1.06
67	Saeid Bagheri			For Iran	18,032	0.98
68	Mohammad-Reza Sharifi			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	17,843	0.97
69	Mohammad-Hossein Sheikhmohammadi			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	17,507	0.95
70	Azam Samsami			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	16,806	0.91
71	Mehdi Sheykh			For Iran	16,666	0.90
72	Mohammad-Hadi Enteshari			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	16,381	0.89
73	Mohammad-Javad Abtahi			Stability Front	16,377	0.89
74	Amir Asgari			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	16,313	0.89
75	Fakhreddin Saberi			For Iran / Friends of Hashemi	15,447	0.84
76	Mehdi Sarrami			Stability Front	14,028	0.76
77	Hassan Ansari			For Iran	13,737	0.75
78	Mohammad Soleimani			People's Coalition / Stability Front	55,24	0.74
79	Mohammad-Reza Rezvani	12,814	0.70
80	Mohsen Alijani-Zamani			For Iran	12,133	0.66
81	Ali Dastani			For Iran	11,483	0.62
82	Mohammad-Reza Asnafi				10,923	0.59
83	Mojtaba Ghasempour	10,377	0.56
84	Mahdi Movahedi Beknazar				10,073	0.55
85	Laleh Eftekhari			Economy and People's Livelihood	10,017	0.54
86	Elham Aminzadeh			Economy and People's Livelihood	9,804	0.53
87	Firouz Aslani			Stability Front	9,761	0.53
88	Mohsen Badreh				9,514	0.52
89	Habib Sohrabi-Parsa			For Iran	9,131	0.50
90	Hossein Hajilou				9,046	0.49
91	Sadeq Khalilian			People's Coalition	8,891	0.48
92	Ali-Hossein Rezaeian	8,858	0.48
93	Hossein Razavipour				8,776	0.48
94	Reza Kalhor				8,672	0.47
95	Davoud Manzour			People's Coalition / Justice Seekers	8,663	0.47
96	Ali-Asghari Pourezzat				8,304	0.45
97	Seyyed Mia'ad Salehi			Economy and People's Livelihood	8,123	0.44
98	Abolfazl Zohrevand			People's Coalition	8,091	0.44
99	Saeid Karami			Proud Iran / People's Coalition	7,950	0.43
100	Ahmad-Reza Aref	7,898	0.43
align=center colspan="5"	1159 other candidates	<7,800	<0.42
Blank or Invalid Votes					Not announced
Total Votes					1,841,891	100

Notes and References

1. Motahari. Ali. Zeynab Safari. If Raisi was the President. 626. Persian. 15 March 2020. Sazandegi. https://web.archive.org/web/20200420184403/https://sazandeginews.com/News/7025. 5 January 2022. 20 April 2020. 66–68.
2. Candidates listed:
   • Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces
   • Front of Islamic Revolution Stability
   • Campaign for Justice-seeking Parliament
   • People's Coalition
   • Economy and People's Livelihood
   • Coalition For Iran
   • Friends of Hashemi