1999 Tehran City Council election

An election to the Islamic City Council of Tehran took place on 26 February 1999, along with the local elections nationwide.

Islamic City Council of Tehran election, 1999
26 February 1999
15 City Council seats
8 seats needed for a majority
Alliance Reformists Principlists
Seats won 15 0
Percentage 100% 0%
Elected Chairman

Abdollah Nouri
Reformists

The results showed a victory for the Reformist groupings, who won all of the seats.

Results
# Candidate Party List[1] Votes[2] %[2]
IIPF ECP ICP CCA
↓ Sitting Members ↓
1 Abdollah Nouri ACC YesYesN/A 588,633 41.94
2 Saeed Hajjarian IIPF YesYesN/A 386,069 27.50
3 Jamileh Kadivar WJA YesYesN/A 369,669 26.34
4 Fatemeh Jalaeipour IIPF YesYesN/A 350,173 24.95
5 Ebrahim Asgharzadeh IISP YesYesN/A 347,173 24.73
6 Mohammad Atrianfar ECP YesYesN/A 322,897 23.00
7 Ahmad Hakimipour AFIL YesYesN/A 304,460 21.69
8 Mohammad-Hossein Doroudian OSU YesYesN/A 279,964 19.94
9 Mahmoud Alizadeh-Tabatabaei ECP YesYesN/A 260,462 18.55
10 Morteza Lotfi ILP YesYesN/A 224,867 16.02
11 Rahmatollah Khosravi AFIL YesYesN/A 220,021 15.67
12 Gholamreza Forouzesh ECP N/AYesYesYes 245,520 15.35
13 Sedigheh Vasmaghi IIPF YesN/A 210,303 14.98
14 Abbas Douzdouzani IIPF YesN/A 200,521 14.28
15 Mohammad Gharazi ECP N/AYesYesYes 192,211 13.69
↓ Alternate Members ↓
16 Davoud Soleymani IIPF YesN/A 190,772 13.59
17 Mohammad-Hossein Haghighi IIPF YesN/A 176,556 12.58
18 Amir Abedini N/A N/A 176,289 12.56
19 Mansour Razavi ECP N/AYesYesYes 167,288 11.92
20 Yahya Ale Eshaq ICP N/AYesYes 165,217 11.77
21 Mohammad Kazem Seifian ICP N/AYesYes 152,106 10.83
Valid Votes1,403,389
Total Votes1,480,275

Shahla Habibi, Mohammad Khakpour, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Nabi Habibi, Alinaghi Khamoushi, Mohammad Jahromi, Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were among notable candidates who lost the election.[1][3]

References
  1. "بررسی آماری حضور چهره‌های شاخص سیاسی و گروه‌های حمايت‌کننده از آن‌ها در انتخابات شوراها". Hamshahri (in Persian) (1776). 25 February 1999.
  2. Omid Karimi, "در ۳ دوره گذشته شورای شهر تهران هر نماینده چه تعداد و چند درصد رای آورد؟", Khabaronline (in Persian)
  3. "Iran prepares for first-ever local elections", BBC, 10 February 1999, retrieved 10 March 2016
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