An election to the Islamic City Council of Tehran took place on 19 May 2017, along with the local elections nationwide.
The council is elected by the plurality-at-large voting system. This election saw losses for the Principlists and the Reformists gained all 21 seats.
More than 3.6 million voters turned out in the election, setting a record.
Campaign In January 2017, reformists started working with moderates and supporters of Hassan Rouhani to compile a shared electoral list of candidates for City Council of Tehran. In April 2017, the Moderation and Development Party joined the Reformists' Supreme Council for Policymaking, the body responsible for picking the candidates included in the list. The final list under the brand name The List of Hope, drew criticism from reformists but was eventually endorsed by Mohammad Khatami. It included only 2 out of the 13 incumbent reformist councilors and several well-known reformist figures were not included. Some reform-minded non-partisans were also expected to feature in the list, including whistleblower Yashar Soltani, social activists Leila Arshad and Ameneh Shirafkan, and Taraneh Yalda, a cityplanner. As a result, two other lists emerged: Omīd-e Eṣlāḥāṭ (), partially made up of the incumbent reformist councilors and Šaḥr-e Dīgar () by independent activists.
The conservative camp and its newly established umbrella organization Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces that supported the incumbent mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, unanimously endorsed the list published under the name Ḵedmaṭ ().
Several candidates who were initially approved, including former Islamic Iran Participation Front MP Ali Tajernia, Office for Strengthening Unity activist Abdollah Momeni and Emad Behavar of the Freedom Movement of Iran among others, were declared disqualified after Revolutionary Guards Intelligence agency reportedly forced the Central Election Supervisory Board.
Results #CandidateElectoral listVotes↓ 21 Sitting Members ↓1Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani Hope1,756,0862Morteza Alviri Hope1,411,0683Ahmad Masjed-Jamei (i) Hope1,405,9944Shahrbanoo Amani Hope1,296,6575Mohammad-Javad Haghshenas Hope1,288,6116Bahareh Arvin Hope1,285,2377Ebrahim Amini Hope1,265,8688Afshin Habibzadeh Hope1,232,9479Arash Milani Hope1,230,72210Hassan Khalilabadi Hope1,228,47711Ali A'ta Hope1,216,20912Zahra Nouri Hope1,206,15913Mohammad Salari (i) Hope1,188,87414Hassan Rasouli Hope1,186,60215Nahid Khodakarami Hope1,172,78216Majid Farahani Hope1,171,60917Zahra Nejadbahram Hope1,133,04818Mahmoud Mirlohi Hope1,121,23719Elham Fakhari Hope1,112,12620Mohammad Alikhani Hope1,070,02521Bashir Nazari Hope1,066,813↓ 11 Alternate Members ↓22Mehdi Chamran (i) Service656,13623Alireza Dabir (i) Service528,60324Habib Kashani (i) Service473,48825Morteza Talaie (i) Service468,42826Jalal Maleki Service455,28627Elaheh Rastgou (i) Service444,63528Mohsen Pirhadi (i) Service442,23329Parviz Sorouri (i) Service407,26930Eghbal Shakeri (i) Service381,18331Zohreh Lajevardi Service368,74832Reza Taghipour (i) Service368,683↓ Defeated ↓33Mojtaba Shakeri (i) Service365,76734Gholamreza Ghasemian Service364,08135Hadi Zakeri Service363,04136Hamzeh Shakib Service352,10337Abdolmoghim Nassehi (i) Service349,83338Ali Riaz Service346,38239Mehdi Eghrarian Service339,74040Soudeh Najafi Service339,24841Abolfazl Ghana'ati (i) Service337,87242Babak Negaahdari Service317,96643Yashar Soltani Alternative City256,42444Hossein Raghfar Alternative City131,20745Mohammad-Mehdi Tondgouyan (i) Reforms' Hope128,60446Mohsen Sorkhou (i) Reforms' Hope109,16747Esmaeil Dousti (i) Reforms' Hope92,71148Ahmad Hakimipour (i) Reforms' Hope91,02449Mohammad-Ali Zam Reforms' Hope79,15450Hadi Saei (i)colspan=2 66,44651Alireza Alikhanicolspan=2 57,26752Abbas Jadidi (i)colspan=2 56,39553Fatemeh Daneshvar (i) Reforms' Hope51,40054Ahmad Donyamali (i) Service & Change45,73755Hossein Allahkaramcolspan=2 37,27956Meysam Mozaffar Service & Change36,98157Ameneh Shirafkan Alternative City33,73958Khosro Salehi Alternative City32,97559Hossein Rezazadeh (i)colspan=2 32,74360Touraj Farhadi Service & Change28,77561Taraneh Yaldacolspan=2 24,52862Rasoul Jama'aticolspan=2 24,04763Mohammad Aalikhanicolspan=2 18,15164Mohammad Shahi-Arabloucolspan=2 16,36665Ali Alikhanicolspan=2 14,38566Alireza Faghanicolspan=2 13,15867Seyyed Manaaf Hashemicolspan=2 13,08568Afsaneh Eghbalnia Reforms' Hope12,78569Jafar Salaricolspan=2 12,51270Mohammad-Javad Mirghavamicolspan=2 12,27571Andranik Simoni Alternative City11,70272Ali Nozarpour Reforms' Hope10,15673Jalil Nikzad-Samarincolspan=2 9,43274Mahmoud Alizadeh-Tabatabaei Reforms' Hope9,37275Masoud Hashemicolspan=2 9,037Invalid/blank votesUndeclaredTotal Votes≈3,600,000Source: Ministry of Interior (Total Votes)
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