List of elections and referendums in Iran

This is an overview of all elections and referendums held in Iran since the first time in 1906.

List

Year	Date	Election	Head of state	Notes
1906	July	Parliament (I)	Mozaffareddin Shah	Revolution
1907	—		Mohammad Ali Shah	—
1908				Coup d'état
1909	?	Parliament (II)	Ahmad Shah	Civil War
1910	—			—
1911				Russian Occupation
1912
1913
1914	?	Parliament (III)		World War I British/Russian/Ottoman Occupation
1915	—
1916
1917
1918
1919				—
1920
1921	?	Parliament (IV)		Coup d'état
1922	—			—
1923	November	Parliament (V)[a]
1924	—
1925	?	Constituent Assembly (I)		New dynasty established
1926	?–27 June	Parliament (VI)[a]	Reza Shah	—
1927	—
1928	?	Parliament (VII)[b]
1929	—
1930	?	Parliament (VIII)[b]
1931	—
1932	?	Parliament (IX)[b]
1933	—
1934
1935	?	Parliament (X)[b]
1936	—
1937	?	Parliament (XI)[b]
1938	—
1939	?	Parliament (XII)[b]
1940	—
1941	?	Parliament (XIII)[b]	Mohammad Reza Shah	World War II British/Soviet Occupation
1942	—
1943	November–February	Parliament (XIV)
1944				—
1945	—
1946
1947	January–?	Parliament (XV)[c]
1948	—
1949	?	Constituent Assembly (II)[c]
	August–?	Senate (I)
1950	?	Parliament (XVI)[a]
1951	—
1952	?	Parliament (XVII)[d]
1953	3–10 August	Referendum (I)		Coup d'état
1954	?	Parliament (XVIII)[c]		—
		Senate (II)[c]
1955	—
1956	?	Parliament (XIX)
1957	—
1958
1959
1960	?	Senate (III)
	30 July–20 August	Parliament (XX)[c][e]
1961	?	Parliament (XX)
1962	—
1963	26 January	Referendum (II)
	17 September	Parliament (XXI)
		Senate (IV)
1964	—
1965
1966
1967	4 August	Parliament (XXII)
		Senate (V)
		Constituent Assembly (III)
1968	—
1969
1970
1971	9 July	Parliament (XXIII)
		Senate (VI)
1972	—
1973
1974
1975	20 June	Parliament (XXIV)
		Senate (VII)
1976	—
1977
1978
1979	30–31 March	Referendum (III)	Ruhollah Khomeini	Islamic Revolution
	3 August	Constituent Assembly (IV)
	2–3 December	Referendum (IV)
1980	25 January	President (I)		War with Iraq
	14 March/9 May	Parliament (XXV)
1981	24 July	President (II)
	2 October	President (III)
1982	10 December	Assembly of Experts (I)
1983	—
1984	15 April/17 May	Parliament (XXVI)
1985	16 August	President (IV)
1986	—
1987
1988	8 April/13 May	Parliament (XXVII)
1989	28 July	President (V)	Ali Khamenei	—
		Referendum (V)
1990	8 October	Assembly of Experts (II)
1991	—
1992	10 April/8 May	Parliament (XXVIII)
1993	11 June	President (VI)
1994	—
1995
1996	8 March/19 April	Parliament (XXIX)
1997	23 May	President (VII)
1998	23 October	Assembly of Experts (III)
1999	26 February	Local (I)
2000	18 February/5 May	Parliament (XXX)
2001	8 June	President (VIII)
2002	—
2003	28 February	Local (II)
2004	20 February/7 May	Parliament (XXXI)
2005	17/24 June	President (IX)
2006	15 December	Assembly of Experts (IV)
		Local (III)
2007	—
2008	14 March/25 April	Parliament (XXXII)
2009	12 June	President (X)[f]
2010	—
2011
2012	2 March/4 May	Parliament (XXXIII)
2013	14 June	President (XI)
		Local (IV)
2014	—
2015
2016	26 February/29 April	Assembly of Experts (V)
		Parliament (XXXIV)
2017	19 May	President (XII)
		Local (V)
2018	—
2019
2020	21 February/11 September	Parliament (XXXV)		COVID-19 pandemic
2021	18 June	President (XIII)
		Local (VI)
2022	—			—
2023
2024	1 March	Assembly of Experts (VI)
	1 March/10 May	Parliament (XXXVI)
Scheduled Future Elections
2024	28 June	President (XIV)	—

See also

• Elections in Iran

Notes

1. Rigged in the shahrestans^[1]
2. Vast fraud nationwide by the court and military^[1]
3. Fraudulent^[1]
4. Election suspended^[1]
5. Results annulled^[1]
6. Protests escalated for alleged manipulation

References

1. (Azimi 2011)

• Azimi, Fakhreddin (December 13, 2011) [December 15, 1998], "ELECTIONS i. UNDER THE QAJAR AND PAHLAVI MONARCHIES, 1906-79. ii. Under the Islamic republic, 1979-92", in Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.), Encyclopædia Iranica, 4, vol. VIII, New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press, pp. 345–355, retrieved March 15, 2016
• Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof (2001), "Iran", Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook, vol. I, Oxford University Press, pp. 57–83, ISBN 0-19-924958-X