Iranian legislative election, 1961

1961

All 200 seats to the National Consultative Assembly

	First party	Second party

Leader	Manouchehr Eghbal	Asadollah Alam
Party	Party of Nationalists	People's Party
Seats won	75	65
Seat change	4	29

Prime Minister before election

Jafar Sharif-Emami
Independent

Elected Prime Minister

Ali Amini
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Iran in 1961, after the elections the previous year had been annulled by the Shah.^[1] The result was a victory for the Party of Nationalists, which won 75 of the 200 seats.^[2]

Results

Party	%	Seats	+/–
Party of Nationalists		75	+4
People's Party		65	+29
Independents		32	+12
Other parties		28	+19
Invalid/blank votes	–	–	–
Total		200	+64
Source: Nohlen et al.

↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p68 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
↑ Nohlen et al., p73

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