31 City Council seats 16 seats needed for a majority
Alliance
Conservatives
Reformists
Seats won
18 / 31
13 / 31
Chairman before election
Mehdi Chamran
Principlist
Elected Chairman
Ahmad Masjed-Jamei
Reformists
An election to the Islamic City Council of Tehran took place on 14 June 2013, along with the local elections nationwide.
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]
^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.
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