Iranian presidential election, July 1981

Iranian presidential election, 1981

24 July 1981



Nominee	Mohammad-Ali Rajai	Abbas Sheibani
Party	IRP	Independent
Popular vote	12,960,619	626,301
Percentage	91.0%	4.4%

President before election

Abolhassan Banisadr
Independent

Elected President

Mohammad-Ali Rajai
IRP

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The Iranian presidential election of July 1981 took place on 24 July 1981 after the previous Iranian president, Abolhassan Banisadr, was impeached by the Majlis on 21 June and then sacked by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, on 22 June. This led to the election of Mohammad Ali Rajai, the previous prime minister, winning 13,001,761 votes out of the 14,573,803 votes cast, which was 89% of the votes. The vote turnout was 65.29%.^[1]

Rajai was killed a few weeks later on 30 August 1981, together with his prime minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar.

Results

Iranian presidential election, July 1981
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Islamic Republican Party	Mohammad-Ali Rajai	12,960,619	91.0%
	Independent	Abbas Sheibani	626,301	4.4%
	Independent	Ali Akbar Parvaresh	401,035	2.8%
	Independent	Habibollah Asgar-Owladi	252,349	1.8%
Blank or invalid votes			402,248
Totals			14,642,552	100.00%
Voter turnout			70%
Sources: Ministry of Interior of Iran

References

↑ Buchta, Wilfried (2000). Who rules Iran? (PDF). The Washington Institute and The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. p. 36.

Elections and referendums in Iran

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