86 Members in the Assembly of Experts 49 votes needed to win
Voting on mandating a 'Leadership Council'
Electoral vote
23 / 68 (34%)
First round
Nominee
Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani
Electoral vote
13 / 86 (15%)
Second round
Nominee
Ali Khamenei
Electoral vote
60 / 86 (70%)
Leader before election
Ruhollah Khomeini
Elected Leader
Ali Khamenei
In the 1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election the Assembly of Experts members voted to choose the second Supreme Leader of Iran. The election was held on June 4, 1989, the morning after Ruhollah Khomeini's death and Ali Khamenei was elected as his successor with 60 votes out of 74.[1]
^Amir Arjomand, Saïd (2009). After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors. Oxford University Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780199745760.
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