Results of the 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election

This article contains the results of the 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election.

List		Seats Won
	The Two Societies	6
	People's Experts/Hope	3
Total Seats		6

Razavi Khorasan province
#	Candidates (10)^[1]	Lists^[2]^[3]^[4]				Votes^[5]^[6]	%
#	Candidates (10)^[1]	CCA	SST	PE	R	Votes^[5]^[6]	%
1	Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi	Yes				1,499,109	53.91
2	Hassan Alemi	Yes		Yes	Yes	1,285,990	46.24
3	Ahmad Alamolhoda	Yes				1,235,565	44.43
4	Ahmad Hosseini-Khorasani	Yes		Yes	Yes	1,180,249	42.44
5	Mojtaba Hosseini	Yes				897,028	32.25
6	Mohammad-Hadi Abdekhodaei	Yes		Yes	Yes	873,143	31.40
7	Mohammad Saeidi-Golpayegani	Yes				728,894	26.21
8	Ali Ghorbani				Yes	681,131	24.49
9	Mahmoud Madani-Bajestani			Yes	Yes	675,809	24.30
10	Mohammad Mehdi Abbasi					132,586	4.76
Total Votes^[7]						2,780,639

List		Seats Won
	Combatant Clergy	5
	Seminary Teachers	5
	People's Experts/Hope	3
Total Seats		6

Khuzestan province
#	Candidates (7)^[1]	Lists				Votes	%
#	Candidates (7)^[1]	CCA^[8]	SST^[9]	PE^[3]	R^[4]	Votes	%
1	Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	783,004	39.28
2	Abbas Kaebi	Yes	Yes			713,521	35.79
3	Mohsen Heidari Ale-Kathir	Yes	Yes			668,417	33.53
4	Ali Shafiei	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	606,294	30.41
5	Abdolkarim Farhani	Yes	Yes			551,502	27.66
6	Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi			Yes	Yes	448,825	22.51
7	Ali Fallahian	Yes				?
Total Votes^[10]						1,993,259

List		Seats Won
	The Two Societies	4
	People's Experts/Hope	4
Total Seats		5

Results of the 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election

Tehran (16)

Razavi Khorasan (6)

Khuzestan (6)

East Azerbaijan (5)

Isfahan (5)

Fars (5)

Provinces with 4 seats and less

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East Azerbaijan province
#	Candidates (6)^[1]	Lists^[11]^[3]^[4]				Votes^[12]	%
#	Candidates (6)^[1]	CCA	SST	PE	R	Votes^[12]	%
1	Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari	Yes				743,818	41.53
2	Ali Malakouti	Yes		Yes	Yes	688,700	38.45
3	Mohammad Taghi Pourmohammadi	Yes		Yes	Yes	570,445	31.85
4	Hashem Hashemzadeh Herisi			Yes	Yes	476,888	26.63
5	Mohammad Feyzi	Yes		Yes	Yes	415,041	23.17
6	Javad Hajizadeh	Yes				354,660	19.80
Blank or Invalid Votes^[12]						207,650	11.59
Total Votes^[12]						1,790,789

Isfahan province
#	Candidates (14)^[1]	Lists^[8]^[9]^[3]^[4]				Votes^[13]	%
#	Candidates (14)^[1]	CCA	SST	PE	R	Votes^[13]	%
1	Yousef Tabatabaei	Yes		Yes	Yes	1,041,564	52.70
2	Abolhassan Mahdavi	Yes				840,238	42.52
3	Morteza Moghtadaei	Yes		Yes	Yes	825,371	41.76
4	Abdolnabi Namazi	Yes				822,961	41.64
5	Mahmoud Abdollahi	Yes				491,974	24.89
6	Mohammad Omumi					369,729	18.71
7	Abdolrasoul Ghassemi-Kajani			Yes	Yes	363,121	18.37
8	Hassan Shariati-Niasar			Yes	Yes	353,805	17.90
9	Mohammad Ali Faqihi					324,772	16.43
10	Hamid Elahidoust					287,360	14.54
11	Mohsen Faqihi					126,569	6.40
—	Asghar Matinpour				Yes	—
Blank or Invalid Votes^[14]						283,024	14.32
Total Votes^[14]						1,976,061

Fars province
#	Candidates (8)^[1]	Lists^[8]^[9]				Votes^[15]
#	Candidates (8)^[1]	CCA	SST	PE	R	Votes^[15]
1	Ali-Asghar Dastgheib	Yes		Yes	Yes	1,537,081
2	Ahmad Beheshti	Yes		Yes	Yes	1,023,064
3	Asadollah Imani	Yes				955,206
4	Mohammad Faqih			Yes	Yes	560,614
5	Ali-Akabar Kalantari					555,939
6	Ali Sheikh-Movahed	Yes		Yes	Yes	527,092
7	Gholamali Safaei-Boushehri	Yes				525,597
8	Ali Edalat			Yes	Yes	443,412
Total Votes^[15]						2,151,847

#	Candidates^[1]	Lists^[8]^[9]^[3]^[4]				Votes^[5]
#	Candidates^[1]	CCA	SST	PE	R	Votes^[5]
Gilan province (4)
1	Ali Hosseini-Eshkevari	Yes		Yes	Yes	354,918
2	Zeinolabedin Ghorbani	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	331,283
3	Reza Ramezani	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	330,606
4	Ahmad Parvaei					305,073
5	Mehdi Rahnama					249,471
6	Sadegh Alamolhoda			Yes	Yes	194,679
7	Hossein Radayi					69,005
Total Votes^[16]						1,173,241
Mazandaran province (4)
1	Sadegh Larijani	Yes				682,817
2	Nourollah Tabarsi	Yes		Yes	Yes	612,673
3	Ali Moallemi	Yes				556,750
4	Rahim Tavakkol			Yes	Yes	488,817
5	Akbar Seifi-Mazandarani	Yes				345,058
6	Sadegh Pishnamazi			Yes	Yes	275,018
7	Hossein Goli-Shirdar			Yes	Yes	184,472
Total Votes^[17]						1,618,263
West Azerbaijan province (3)
1	Ali Akbar Ghoreishi	Yes				822,027
2	Asgar Dirbaz	Yes				397,407
3	Javad Mojtahed Shabestari					247,240
4	Mansour Mazaheri-Krouni			Yes	Yes	237,279
5	Abbas Rafati	Yes				176,052
Total Votes^[18]						1,511,652
Kerman province (3)
1	Ahmad Khatami	Yes				701,972
2	Mohammad Bahrami-Khoshkar	Yes		Yes	Yes	672,608
3	Amanollah Alimoradi	Yes		Yes	Yes	559,656
4	Jalil Sadr-Tabatabaei			Yes	Yes	486,107
5	Ahmad Shaykh Bahāʾī					224,059
Total Votes^[19]						1,310,234
Ardabil province (2)
1	Hassan Ameli	Yes		Yes	Yes	382,854
2	Fakhraddin Mousavi			Yes	Yes	254,462
3	Sadegh Mohammadi-Jazeyi	Yes				?
Total Votes^[20]						612,320
Alborz province (2)
1	Mohammad-Mehdi Mirbagheri	Yes				348,431
2	Mohsen Kazeroun	Yes		Yes	Yes	282,856
3	Sadegh Razzaghi			Yes	Yes	234,398
4	Mohammad-Ali Modarresi Mosalla	Yes				183,777
5	Hossein Tajabadi					56,357
6	Ali Rahmanifard					55,170
Total Votes^[21]						800,257
Sistan and Baluchestan province (2)
1	Ali-Ahmadi Salami^[a]	Yes		Yes	Yes	732,289
2	Abbasali Soleimani	Yes		Yes	Yes	417,867
3	Mohammad Hossein Bayati					201,088
Total Votes^[22]						1,117,261
Qazvin province (2)
1	Ali Eslami	Yes				291,051
2	Majid Talkhabi			Yes	Yes	209,726
3	Mahmoud Rajabi	Yes				170,612
Total Votes^[23]						539,543
Kurdistan province (2)
1	Faegh Rostami^[a]			Yes	Yes	144,513
2	Anvar Adami^[a]					136,359
3	Abdolrahman Khodaei^[a]		Yes	Yes	Yes	135,341
4	Mohammad Hosseini-Shahroudi		Yes			133,877
5	Eghbal Bahmani^[a]					124,749
Total Votes^[24]						620,458
Kermanshah province (2)
1	Amanollah Narimani			Yes	Yes	381,623
2	Mahmoud Mahmoudi-Araghi	Yes		Yes	Yes	272,292
3	Alireza Mostashari					263,438
4	Hassan Mamdouhi	Yes				250,382
Total Votes (Excluding blank or invalid votes)^[25]						448,355
Golestan province (2)
1	Kazem Nourmofidi	Yes		Yes	Yes	486,286
2	Abdolhadi Mortazavi-Shahroudi	Yes		Yes	Yes	365,881
3	Hosseinali Saʾdī					296,133
Total Votes^[26]						1,148,300
Markazi province (2)
1	Mohsen Araki	Yes				242,146
2	Ahmad Mohseni Gorgani	Yes		Yes	Yes	207,655
3	Kazem Sepasi-Ashtiani					182,231
4	Javad Mousavi			Yes	Yes	176,207
5	Ahmad Momen					32,960
Total Votes^[27]						634,545
Hamedan province (2)
1	Mostafa Mousavi	Yes				441,321
2	Ghiassedin Mohammadi	Yes		Yes	Yes	319,656
3	Ali Razini			Yes	Yes	≈215,000
4	Habibollah Shaʾbani					≈187,000
Total Votes^[28]						845,253
Luristan province (2)
1	Ahmad Moballeghi	Yes		Yes	Yes	400,732
2	Hashem Niazi	Yes				382,523
3	Mohammad-Naghi Shahrokhi			Yes	Yes	345,663
Total Votes^[29]						884,144
Ilam province (1)
1	Mohsen Saeidi	Yes				136,919
2	Mehdi Khatibi					81,962
Total Votes^[30]						323,811
Bushehr province (1)
1	Hashem Boushehri	Yes		Yes	Yes	374,147
2	Gholamreza Fayyazi					33,149
Blank or Invalid Votes^[b]						60,659
Total Votes^[31]						467,945
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province (1)
1	Alireza Eslamian	Yes				245,278
2	Reza Mokhtari-Esfidvajani			Yes	Yes	162,673
3	Mohammad Ali Khazayili					16,673
Total Votes^[32]						424,747
South Khorasan province (1)
1	Ebrahim Raeesi	Yes				325,048
2	Ebrahim Rabbani			Yes	Yes	81,083
Total Votes^[33]						406,131
North Khorasan province (1)
1	Habibollah Mehmannavaz	Yes				176,136
2	Ali Mohammadi-Khorasani			Yes	Yes	126,775
3	Hamid Havali-Shahriari					110,773
Total Votes^[34]						448,355
Zanjan province (1)
1	Mohammad Reza Doulabi		Yes			193,558
2	Esmaeil Nouri-Zanjani	Yes		Yes	Yes	175,498
3	Abdollah Amirkhani					76,932
Total Votes^[35]						445,989
Semnan province (1)
1	Mohammad Shahcheraghi	Yes		Yes		224,215
2	Abdolamir Khattat					48,424
Total Votes^[36]						325,049
Qom province (1)
1	Mohammad Momen	Yes				333,149
2	Maysam Doust-Mohammadi^[c]					43,625
Total Votes^[38]						472,549
Kohgiluyeh and Boyerahmad province (1)
1	Sharafeddin Malek-Hosseini	Yes		Yes	Yes	327,864
2	Mohammad Kazem Mousavinasab					36,881
Total Votes^[39]						400,617
Hormozgan province (1)
1	Ruhollah Sadrossadati					420,699
2	Gholamali Naeimabadi	Yes		Yes	Yes	271,231^[d]
Total Votes^[41]						763,152
Yazd province (1)
1	Abolghassem Vafi	Yes		Yes	Yes	328,206
2	Mohammad Reza Mohassel					101,325
Total Votes^[42]						429,531