Iranian legislative election, 2000

Iranian legislative election, 2000

1996 ←
February 18 and May 5, 2000
→ 2004

All 290 seats to the Islamic Consultative Assembly
146 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Ali-Akbar Mousavi Khoeini Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Party Mosharekat CCA ECP
Alliance Reformists Conservatives Constructions
Leader's seat Tehran - -
Last election 80 110 -
Seats won 189 54 42
Percentage 65% 19% 14%

Speaker before election

Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
CCA

Elected Speaker

Mehdi Karroubi
ACC

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Iranian parliamentary elections, 2000, was the election held for the sixth parliament of Iran (2000-2004) after the Iranian revolution. The election was swept by reformist parties, such as the Islamic Iran Participation Front. They won 189 out of 290 seats in the Majlis, with conservatives winning 54, Constructions 42.[1][2]

e • d Summary of the 10 February and 23 May 2000 Majlis of Iran election results
Orientiation of candidates Votes % Seats % of Seats
Reformists 189 65%
Conservatives 54 19%
Constructions 42 14%
Armenians recognized minority religion 2 0.6%
Chaldean and Assyrian Catholic recognized minority religion 1 0.3%
Jewish recognized minority religion 1 0.3%
Zoroastrian recognized minority religion 1 0.3%
Total 38,726,386 100 290 100
Source: nationsencyclopedia

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