All 270 seats of Islamic Consultative Assembly 136 seats needed for a majority
Registered
27,986,736[1]
Turnout
59.72%[1]
Majority party
Minority party
Leader
Mehdi Karoubi
Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
Party
Association of Combatant Clerics
and allies
Association of the Women
Office for Strengthening Unity
Worker House
Islamic Association of Teachers
Combatant Clergy Association
and allies
Islamic Coalition Society
Islamic Society of Engineers
Zeynab Society
Alliance
Left
Right
Leader's seat
Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat
Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat (defeated)
Seats won
≈160[2]
≈90[2]
Composition of the Assembly following the election
Prime Minister before election
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Independent
Elected Prime Minister
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Independent
Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 8 April 1988, with a second round on 13 May.[3] The result was a victory for leftist politicians who later emerged as reformists.[4] The number of clerics elected to the Majlis was reduced by over a third.[5]
^ ab"1988 Parliamentary Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, archived from the original on 30 May 2012, retrieved 10 August 2015
^ abBahman Bakhtiari (1993), "Parliamentary elections in Iran", Iranian Studies, 24 (3–4), Routledge: 375–388, doi:10.1080/00210869308701808 – via Tandfonline (subscription required), By the end of September 1989, the radicals had close to 160 supporters, around 90 deputies belonged to the pragmatists' camp, the rest were "fence-sitters."
^Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p. 68 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
^Zandi, Mohammad Ali. "3rd Islamic Consultative Assembly elections" (in Persian). Baqir al-Ulum Research Institute. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^James W. Heslep The Decline of Clerics in the Iranian Majles Archived 12 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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