Iranian local elections, 2013

Iranian local elections, 2013

14 June 2013

Alliance Principlists Reformists Major City Seats[1] 240 / 479 88 / 479 Major City Seats Percentage 50.1% 18.37%

The Iranian local elections took place on 14 June 2013 to elected members of the fourth council of the City and Village Councils of Iran.^[2] This election was held by a general election with presidential election. The original date of the election was in June 2010 but Parliament of Iran voted to increase age of the councils from 4 to 7 years. The councils will began their work one month after the election to elect the new mayors.^[3] Officials said special inspectors have been charged with monitoring more than 67,000 polling stations nationwide. Over 200,000 candidates have been qualified to run for both city and rural council seats. More than 126,000 seats are up for grab in the elections.^[4]

Background

The city and village councils are local establishments that are elected by public vote in all cities and villages across the country. Council members in each city or village are elected for a four-year term. The councils are tasked with helping the Islamic Republic’s social, economic, cultural and educational advancement by encouraging public participation in social affairs. The city councils also elects city mayors.

Registrations

The registration of candidates was toke place from 15 to 20 April 2013. The Guardian Council was announced the final candidates on 16 May 2013. The candidates that failed to enter to the election had a four days timeout for protest.^[5][6]

Members

The councils have 124,700 original members; with the allowance members, it reaches to 207,587 members.^[7] This is different from the previous election.^[8]

Population	Num. of members
20,000 or less	5 (original) +2 (allowance)
20, 000 to 50,000	7 + 3
50,000 to 100,000	9 + 4
100,000 to 200,000	11 + 5
200,000 to 500,000	13 + 6
50,000 to 1,000,000	15 + 7
1,000,000 to 2,000,000	21 + 8
2,000,000 or more	25 + 10
Tehran	31 + 12

Election summary

Ministry of Interior have announced that election will be held by electoral vote in fourteen provinces.^[9] The candidates can began their publicity from 6 June and it will be end 24 hours before the election.^[10] According to Interior Minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar a number of 352,165 persons have enrollment.^[11]

Results

According to mohajernews.net Conservatives won 70% of the councils, while Reformists won 21% of them. Newly Moderates also won 9% of the councils.^[12] Conservatives won 18 and Reformists 13 seats in Tehran City Council.^[13]

Major Cities

Khabar Online published the results of the election in 9 major cities, according to electoral lists. Those who did not count as Principlist or Reformist, were Independents:^[14]

City		Principlists	Reformists	Independents
	Tehran	18 / 31 (58%)	13 / 31 (42%)	0 / 31 (0%)
	Mashhad	24 / 25 (96%)	0 / 25 (0%)	1 / 25 (4%)
	Isfahan	10 / 21 (48%)	3 / 21 (14%)	8 / 21 (38%)
	Shiraz	13 / 21 (62%)	0 / 21 (0%)	8 / 21 (38%)
	Karaj	6 / 21 (29%)	0 / 21 (0%)	15 / 21 (71%)
	Qom	20 / 21 (95%)	0 / 21 (0%)	1 / 21 (5%)
	Tabriz	9 / 21 (43%)	2 / 21 (10%)	10 / 21 (48%)
	Arak	10 / 15 (67%)	0 / 15 (0%)	5 / 15 (33%)
	Bushehr	3 / 11 (27%)	1 / 11 (9%)	7 / 11 (64%)
	Total	113 / 187 (60%)	19 / 187 (10%)	55 / 187 (29%)

Fars News Agency also published a detailed report for province capitals, with the results as following:^[1]

Province capital seats won by political factions according to Fars News Agency report.^[1]

  Principlists (50.1%)

  Reformists (18.37%)

  Independents (31.52%)

City		Principlists	Reformists	Independents
	Tehran	16 / 31 (52%)	13 / 31 (42%)	2 / 31 (6%)
	Mashhad	24 / 25 (96%)	0 / 25 (0%)	1 / 25 (4%)
	Tabriz	7 / 21 (33%)	2 / 21 (10%)	12 / 21 (57%)
	Isfahan	15 / 21 (71%)	3 / 21 (14%)	3 / 21 (14%)
	Ahwaz	11 / 21 (52%)	3 / 21 (14%)	7 / 21 (33%)
	Qom	20 / 21 (95%)	0 / 21 (0%)	1 / 21 (5%)
	Shiraz	16 / 21 (76%)	2 / 21 (10%)	6 / 21 (29%)
	Karaj	3 / 21 (14%)	0 / 21 (0%)	18 / 21 (86%)
	Rasht	3 / 15 (20%)	8 / 15 (53%)	4 / 15 (27%)
	Urmia	9 / 15 (60%)	0 / 15 (0%)	6 / 15 (40%)
	Kermanshah	7 / 15 (47%)	4 / 15 (27%)	4 / 15 (27%)
	Arak	13 / 15 (87%)	0 / 15 (0%)	2 / 15 (13%)
	Hamedan	10 / 15 (67%)	0 / 15 (0%)	5 / 15 (33%)
	Kerman	9 / 15 (60%)	3 / 15 (20%)	3 / 15 (20%)
	Gorgan	6 / 13 (46%)	7 / 13 (54%)	0 / 13 (0%)
	Zanjan	6 / 13 (46%)	2 / 13 (15%)	5 / 13 (38%)
	Yazd	2 / 13 (15%)	8 / 13 (62%)	3 / 13 (23%)
	Sari	7 / 13 (54%)	3 / 13 (23%)	3 / 13 (23%)
	Khorramabad	5 / 13 (38%)	0 / 13 (0%)	8 / 13 (62%)
	Sanandaj	8 / 13 (62%)	2 / 13 (15%)	3 / 13 (23%)
	Bandar Abbas	9 / 13 (69%)	0 / 13 (0%)	4 / 13 (31%)
	Ardabil	6 / 13 (46%)	0 / 13 (0%)	7 / 13 (54%)
	Qazvin	9 / 13 (69%)	2 / 13 (15%)	2 / 13 (15%)
	Bojnurd	0 / 13 (0%)	0 / 13 (0%)	13 / 13 (100%)
	Semnan	7 / 11 (64%)	2 / 11 (18%)	2 / 21 (10%)
	Shahrekord	7 / 11 (64%)	2 / 11 (18%)	2 / 11 (18%)
	Bushehr	4 / 11 (36%)	4 / 11 (36%)	3 / 11 (27%)
	Ilam	2 / 11 (18%)	3 / 11 (27%)	6 / 11 (55%)
	Birjand	2 / 11 (18%)	5 / 11 (45%)	4 / 11 (36%)
	Yasuj	0 / 11 (0%)	0 / 11 (0%)	11 / 11 (100%)
	Zahedan	0 / 9 (0%)	9 / 9 (100%)	0 / 9 (0%)
	Total	240 / 479 (50%)	88 / 479 (18%)	151 / 479 (32%)

Tehran^[15]

#	Candidate	List					Votes	%
		R[16]	PV[17]	S[lower-alpha 1][18]	FF[19]	SF[20]
↓ 31 Sitting Members[21] ↓
1	Mehdi Chamran			Yes		Yes	566,614	25.26
2	Alireza Dabir			Yes			400,677	17.86
3	Ahmad Masjed-Jamei	Yes	Yes				281,548	12.55
4	Hossein Rezazadeh					Yes	270,390	12.05
5	Habib Kashani			Yes			266,533	11.88
6	Hadi Saei						260,457	11.61
7	Morteza Talaie			Yes			242,386	10.80
8	Parviz Sarvari			Yes		Yes	199,956	8.91
9	Reza Taghipour			Yes		Yes	186,020	8.91
10	Elaheh Rastgou	Yes					179,982	8.02
11	Abbas Sheybani		Yes		Yes		173,277	7.72
12	Esmaeil Dousti	Yes	Yes				158,707	7.07
13	Ahmad Donyamali	Yes	Yes				157,277	7.01
14	Mohammad Salari	Yes	Yes				155,138	6.91
15	Mohammad-Mehdi Tondgouyan	Yes					154,921	6.90
16	Fatemeh Daneshvar	Yes					144,792	6.45
17	Ahmad Hakimipour	Yes					137,694	6.13
18	Mohammad Haghani	Yes					135,100	6.02
19	Mojtaba Shakeri			Yes		Yes	130,269	5.80
20	Abdolhossein Mokhtabad	Yes	Yes				129,969	5.79
21	Rahmatollah Hafezi			Yes		Yes	129,832	5.78
22	Abolfazl Ghana'ati			Yes		Yes	127,664	5.69
23	Eghbal Shakeri			Yes		Yes	127,558	5.68
24	Mehdi Hojjat (Resigned)	Yes	Yes				135,100	5.67
25	Gholamreza Ansari	Yes					126,500	5.64
26	Masoumeh Abad			Yes			122,790	5.47
27	Abolmoghim Nasehi			Yes			119,826	5.34
28	Mohsen Sorkhou	Yes					118,745	5.29
29	Abbas Jadidi						117,503	5.23
30	Mohsen Pirhadi			Yes			114,495	5.10
31	Mohammad Mehdi Moffateh (Resigned)		Yes		Yes		114,439	5.10
↓ 12 Alternate Members[22] ↓
32	Masoud Soltanifar (Resigned)	Yes					114,118	5.08
33	Valiollah Shojapourian (Entered council)	Yes					110,696	4.93
34	Ali Saberi (Entered council)	Yes					109,411	4.87
35	Afshin Habibzadeh	Yes	Yes				108,059	4.81
36	Hossein Khalilabadi	Yes					106,731	4.75
37	Zahra Sadre'azam-Nouri	Yes					105,896	4.72
38	Faezeh Dolati	Yes					105,675	4.71
39	Abbas Mirza-Aboutalebi	Yes					104,591	4.66
40	Abbas Masjedi-Arani					Yes	104,273	4.64
41	Adel Abdi	Yes					104,176	4.64
42	Khosro Daneshjou			Yes			103,949	4.63
43	Hassan Ghafourifard		Yes		Yes		101,822	4.54
Valid Votes							2,242,662
Total Votes							2,786,357

1. The "Servants of Development and Progress" (Persian: خدمتگزاران آبادانی و پیشرفت‎‎) was a principlist electoral list close to Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

References

1. "فارس گزارش می دهد اصولگرایان پیروز انتخابات شوراها". Fars News Agency. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
2. the date of the local election have announced
3. City Councils law Ministry of Interior
4. Iran’s city councils candidates start campaigns for June vote Press TV, 7 June 2013
5. The date of registrations of the 2013 local elections Khoorna
6. The registrations date will not renewed 118 Khabar
7. The end of the time for 207,587 seats
8. Changes at the 2013 elections
9. Electoral voted in 14 provinces
10. From A to Z in the local elections 2013
11. 352,166 persons entered to the elections, from 25 to 100 years old
12. اصولگرایان پیروز انتخابات شوراها در مراکز 30 استان
13. جزئیات منتخبان دوره چهارم شورای شهر تهران+جدول Pars News
14. "سهم گروه‌های سیاسی از چهارمین انتخابات شورای شهر در تهران و ۸ شهر بزرگ". Khabar Online. July 2013. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
15. "آگهی نتیجه انتخابات چهارمین دوره شورای اسلامی شهر تهران" (PDF) (in Persian). Ministry of Interior. 18 July 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
16. "لیست اصلاح طلبان در انتخابات شورای شهر تهران + اسامی". Asr-e-Iran (in Persian). 9 June 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
17. "لیست صدای ملت برای انتخابات شورای شهر اعلام شد؛ ترکیبی از اصولگرایان و اصلاح‌طلبان". Khabaronline (in Persian). 9 June 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
18. "لیست 31 نفره خدمتگزاران آبادانی و پیشرفت در انتخابات شورای شهر تهران". Khabaronline (in Persian). 9 June 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
19. "فهرست جبهه پیروان برای شورای شهر". Entekhab (in Persian). 9 June 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
20. "فهرست نهایی جبهه پایداری در انتخابات شورای شهر تهران". Asr-e-Iran (in Persian). 9 June 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
21. "فرمانداری لیست شورای‌شهر تهران را اعلام کرد/ چمران با ۵۶۶ هزار رای، اول- مفتح با ۱۱۴ هزار رای سی و یک". Khabaronline (in Persian). Retrieved 17 February 2016.
22. "اعضای علی‌البدل شورای شهر تهران مشخص شدند". Khabaronline (in Persian). Retrieved 17 February 2016.

External links

• Iran Electoral Archive