Iranian legislative election, 1996
- Iranian legislative election, 1996
Elections to the Majlis of Iran were held on 8 March, 1996. A total of 270 representatives were to be chosen (22 in 1997). A second round was held on 19 April, 1996, which filled 103 remaining seats where no candidate gained sufficient votes to win in the first round. 22 seats where reserved for the elections scheduled for February 1997.
While no political parties were in the running, the election offered an occasion for a large debate between a dozen Islamic factions, especially the conservative group led by Assembly Speaker Nategh-Nouri and the moderate wing headed by President of the Republic Ali Akbar Rafsanjani. In the first round the Combatant Clergy Association gained a majority but in the second round their opponents the Servants of Iran's Construction made gaines and eventually no one had a majority. The first sitting of the newly elected Parliament took place on 1 June.
=Official statistics (from the Ministry of Interior)=
* Total candidates: 4679
* Decided in the first round: 145 of 270 seats
* To be decided in the second round: 103 seats
* To be decided in 1997: 22 seats
* Number of voters: 24,718,661
External links
[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2149_96.htm Iranian elections, 1996]
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