2013 Tehran City Council election

An election to the Islamic City Council of Tehran took place on 14 June 2013, along with the local elections nationwide.

Islamic City Council of Tehran election, 2013
14 June 2013
31 City Council seats
16 seats needed for a majority
Alliance Principlists Reformists
Last election 10 4
Seats won 18 13
Percentage 58.06% 41.93%
Electoral list Multiple Reformists Coalition
Chairman before election

Mehdi Chamran
Principlist

 Elected Chairman

Ahmad Masjed-Jamei
Reformists

The council is elected by the plurality-at-large voting system. The Principlists gained majority with 18 seats, while the Reformists had endorsed 13 winners in their list.[1]

Results
# Candidate List Votes[2] %
RC[3] PV[4] PJP[5] ABII[6] FF[7] SF[8]
↓ 31 Sitting Members[9] ↓
1 Mehdi Chamran Yes 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 Yes 266,533 11.88
6 Hadi Saei 260,457 11.61
7 Morteza Talaie Yes Yes 242,386 10.80
8 Parviz Sorouri Yes Yes Yes 199,956 8.91
9 Reza Taghipour Yes Yes Yes 186,020 8.91
10 Elaheh Rastgou Yes 179,982 8.02
11 Abbas Sheybani Yes Yes Yes Yes 173,277 7.72
12 Esmaeil Dousti Yes Yes 158,707 7.07
13 Ahmad Donyamali Yes Yes Yes 157,277 7.01
14 Mohammad Salari Yes Yes 155,138 6.91
15 Mohammad-Mahdi 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 Yes 129,832 5.78
22 Abolfazl Ghana'ati Yes Yes Yes 127,664 5.69
23 Eghbal Shakeri Yes Yes Yes 127,558 5.68
24 Mahdi Hojjat Yes Yes Yes 135,100 5.67
25 Gholamreza Ansari Yes 126,500 5.64
26 Masoumeh Abad Yes Yes 122,790 5.47
27 Abolmoghim Nasehi Yes Yes 119,826 5.34
28 Mohsen Sorkhou Yes 118,745 5.29
29 Abbas Jadidi 117,503 5.23
30 Mohsen Pirhadi Yes Yes 114,495 5.10
31 Mohammad Mehdi Mofatteh Yes Yes Yes 114,439 5.10
↓ 12 Alternate Members[10] ↓
32 Masoud Soltanifar Yes 114,118 5.08
33 Valiollah Shojapourian Yes 110,696 4.93
34 Ali Saberi Yes 109,411 4.87
35 Afshin Habibzadeh Yes Yes 108,059 4.81
36 Hassan 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 Yes 104,273 4.64
41 Adel Abdi Yes 104,176 4.64
42 Khosro Daneshjou Yes Yes 103,949 4.63
43 Hassan Ghafourifard Yes Yes 101,822 4.54
↓ Lost Candidates ↓
44 Mohammad Saeidnejad Yes 101,683 4.53
45 Seyyed Hassan E'temadzadeh Yes Yes 101,603 4.53
46 Afshin Ala' Yes 101,542 4.53
47 Siavash Shahrivar Yes 101,034 4.50
48 Somayeh Boroujerdi Yes Yes 100,510 4.48
49 Alireza Ali-Ahmadi Yes Yes 99,019 4.41
50 Seyyed Mahdi Nademi Yes 98,970 4.41
51 Seyyed Abolhassan Riazi Yes 98,628 4.40
52 Mohsen Mansouri Yes 95,509 4.26
53 Mohammad Mirzaei Yes 94,758 4.22
54 Behrouz Shojaei Yes 94,446 4.21
55 Ali Nozarpour Yes 89,385 3.98
56 Seyyed Afzal Mousavi Yes 87,465 3.90
57 Hossein Sari Yes Yes 86,418 3.85
58 Bahman Adibzadeh Yes Yes 85,109 3.79
59 Hassan Bayadi Yes 84,289 3.76
60 Hassan Hamidzadeh Yes 75,190 3.35
61 Seyyed Manaaf Hashemi Yes 74,178 3.31
62 Vahid Norouzi Yes Yes 73,266 3.27
63 Irandokht Fayyaz Yes Yes 67,022 2.99
64 Fazel Nazari Yes Yes 65,183 2.90
65 Sedigheh Hekmat Yes 61,915 2.76
66 Ali Rajabi Yes 61,083 2.72
67 Mohammad-Hashem Ghoroghi Yes 60,054 2.67
68 Alireza Saffarzadeh Yes 60,005 2.67
17664 other candidates<60,000
Valid Votes2,242,662
Total Votes2,786,357

References
  1. Ali M. Pedram (20 June 2013). "Reformists return to power in Iran's local elections". Asharq Al Awsat. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2017. Thirty-one council seats were up for grabs in Tehran, with 13 going to reformists. Although conservatives won 18 seats in the capital in total... Although the composition of Tehran’s new city council appears to give conservatives a majority with 18 seats, four of these were won by previously apolitical celebrity athletes, who observers speculate may be open to changing their affiliation in the future.
  2. "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.
  3. "لیست اصلاح طلبان در انتخابات شورای شهر تهران + اسامی". Asr-e-Iran (in Persian). 9 June 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  4. "لیست صدای ملت برای انتخابات شورای شهر اعلام شد؛ ترکیبی از اصولگرایان و اصلاح‌طلبان". Khabaronline (in Persian). 9 June 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
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  6. "لیست آبادگران ایران اسلامی+دستخط چمران". Fars News Agency (in Persian). 6 June 2013. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  7. "فهرست جبهه پیروان برای شورای شهر". Entekhab (in Persian). 9 June 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  8. "فهرست نهایی جبهه پایداری در انتخابات شورای شهر تهران". Asr-e-Iran (in Persian). 9 June 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  9. "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.
  10. "اعضای علی‌البدل شورای شهر تهران مشخص شدند". Khabaronline (in Persian). Retrieved 17 February 2016.
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