Electoral history of Mohammad Khatami

This is a summary of the electoral history of Mohammad Khatami, an Iranian Reformist politician who has been previously President of Iran (1997-2005) and member of Islamic Consultative Assembly (1980-1982) from Ardakan.

Parliament election

1980

In the election he was placed first in Ardakan, receiving 32,942 out of 40,112 (82.1%) votes.^[1]

Ministry approval

Khatami was nominated and approved for Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance by Iranian Parliament on consecutive times.^[2]

Majlis Term	Year	Votes	%	Nominated by
1st	1982	121 / 170 27 against, 22 abstained	71.17	Mir Hossein Mousavi
2nd	1986	158 / 205 28 against, 19 abstained	77.07	Mir Hossein Mousavi
3rd	1988	175 / 247 57 against, 15 abstained	70.85	Mir Hossein Mousavi
3rd	1989	246 / 260 10 against, 4 abstained	94.61	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Presidential elections

1997

Iranian presidential election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Association of Combatant Clerics	Mohammad Khatami	20,078,187	69.6%
	Combatant Clergy Association	Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri	7,242,859	25.0%
	Independent	Reza Zavarei	771,460	2.7%
	Association for Defence of Revolution Values	Mohammad Reyshahri	742,598	2.6%
Blank or invalid votes			240,996
Totals			29,067,100	100.00%
Voter turnout			88%
Sources: Ministry of Interior of Iran

2001

Iranian presidential election, 2001
Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Mohammad Khatami	21,659,053	77.1%
Ahmad Tavakkoli	4,393,544	15.6%
Ali Shamkhani	737,962	2.6%
Abdollah Jassbi	260,082	0.9%
Mahmoud Kashani	235,363	0.8%
Hassan Ghafourifard	129,222	0.4%
Mansour Razavi	114,327	0.4%
Shahab od-Din Sadr	59,646	0.2%
Ali Fallahian	55,176	0.2%
Mostafa Hashemitaba	28,090	0.1%
Valid votes	28,081,930	100.00%
Blank or invalid votes
Totals	28,081,930	100.00%
Voter turnout	67.77%
Sources: Ministry of Interior of Iran

References

1. Getting to Know the Representatives in the Majles (PDF), Iranian Parliament, p. 124
2. کابینه 10 دولت پیشین: سابقه رای اعتماد مجلسی‌ ها (in Persian), IRINN, retrieved 23 March 2015