title: 1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Gilan Province
text: # 1979 Iranian Constitutional Assembly election in Gilan Province
  
  On 3 August 1979, a Constitutional Convention election was held in Gilan Province constituency with plurality-at-large voting format in order to decide three seats for the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution.
  
  All seats went to Khomeinist candidates, who were affiliated with the Islamic Republican Party, the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom and the Combatant Clergy Association. The clerical candidate supported by the Freedom Movement of Iran was placed fourth, ahead of a People's Mujahedin of Iran member listed by the Quintuple Coalition. Communist candidates of different groups were also all defeated, though they received a higher percentage of votes in comparison to communists in other provinces.
  
  ## Results
  
  1979 Constitutional Convention election: Gilan Province :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Seminary Teachers | Mohammad-Mehdi Rabbani | 216,525 | 62.56 |
  | | CCA | Abdollah Ziaeinia | 207,628 | 59.99 |
  | | IRP | Hassan Azodi | 159,397 | 46.05 |
  | | FMI | Zeinolabedin Ghorbani | 81,724 | 23.61 |
  | | PMOI | Shahbaz Shahbazi | 78,307 | 22.62 |
  | | CCA | Sadegh Ehsanbakhsh | 56,715 | 16.39 |
  | | OIPGF | Mohammad-Reza Joshani Amlashi | 41,861 | 12.09 |
  | | Tudeh Party | Mahmoud Etemadzadeh | 19,884 | 5.74 |
  | | — | Taher Khoshkholgh | 15,473 | 4.47 |
  | | WW | Hassan Hesam | 12,641 | 3.65 |
  | | — | Ebrahim Faghih-Mohammadi | 9,376 | 2.71 |
  | | — | Mehdi Zamiri | 3,251 | 0.94 |
  | | — | Abbas Daneshkhah | 3,031 | 0.88 |
  | | — | Mahmoud Aghajani Ghazimahalleh | 2,567 | 0.74 |
  | | NPI | Khalil Khalilpour Darestani | 1,994 | 0.58 |
  | | WSI | Masoumeh Zamiri | 668 | 0.19 |
  | Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 346,114 | 100 |
  | ↑ Also supported by the Combatant Clergy Association.↑ Also supported by the Freedom Movement of Iran.↑ Also supported by the Islamic Republican Party.↑ Supported by Malek Ashtar Monotheistic Organization (sāzmān-e tohīdī-ye mālek-e aštar).↑ Also supported by the Movement of Muslim Women (neḥzat-e zanān-e mosalmān).1 2 Supported by the Quintuple Coalition |||||
  | Source: "Election Results" (PDF), Enghelab-e-Eslami, no. 41, p. 3, 8 August 1979 |||||
  