Urmia (electoral district)

Urmia (electoral district) is a biggest electoral district in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. This electoral district has a population of 936,738 and elects 3 members of parliament. Urmia elections on the basis of ethnicity and religion.[1]

Urmia
Electoral district Constituency
for the West Azerbaijan
West Azerbaijan ProvinceUrmia County
Current constituency
Assembly MembersNader Ghazipour
Hadi Bahadori
Rohollah Hazratpour

1980

MPs in 1980 from the electorate of Urmia. (1st)

  • Gholamreza Hassani (Az, Resigned)
  • Ali Hagigat Afshar (Az)
  • Hassan Vaez Mousavi-Anzabi (Az)
  • Akbar Ghaffari (Az, Mid-term elections)

1984

MPs in 1984 from the electorate of Urmia. (2nd)

1988

MPs in 1988 from the electorate of Urmia. (3rd)

1992

MPs in 1992 from the electorate of Urmia. (4th)

  • Ali Kamyar (Az)
  • Beitollah Jafari (Az)
  • Nosrat Samadzadeh (Az)

1996

MPs in 1996 from the electorate of Urmia. (5th)

2000

MPs in 2000 from the electorate of Urmia. (6th)

2004

MPs in 2004 from the electorate of Urmia. (7th)

  • Mohammad Abbaspour (Az)
  • Javad Jahanghirzadeh (Az)
  • Abed Fattahi (Ku)

2008

MPs in 2008 from the electorate of Urmia. (8th)

2012

MPs in 2012 from the electorate of Urmia. (9th)

2016

2016 Iranian legislative election[2]
# Candidate List(s) Votes Run-offs[3] Ethnic Group
1 Nader Ghazipour Principlists Coalition 169,098 Azerbaijanis
Run-offs
2 Hadi Bahadori Pervasive Coalition of Reformists 102,984 220,197 Azerbaijanis
3 Rohollah Hazratpour Independent politician 86,257 209,705 Azerbaijanis

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