2006 Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr by-election
# 2006 Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr by-election

A by-election for the Islamic Consultative Assembly's constituency Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr was held on 15 December 2006, to fill two vacancies caused by resignation of Davoud Danesh-Jafari and Manouchehr Mottaki, who were appointed as finance and foreign ministers respectively. The voters in Tehran cast their ballots along with the nationwide Assembly of Experts election and the Tehran City Council election.

The two seats went to conservative Hassan Ghafourifard and reformist Soheila Jolodarzadeh, who were placed the first and the second respectively in a plurality-at-large voting system.

## Results

The top sixteen candidates who ran for the seats, were:

| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Hassan Ghafourifard | Islamic Coalition Party | 452,801 | 21.44 |
| 2 | Soheila Jolodarzadeh | Islamic Labour Party | 445,834 | 17.82 |
| 3 | Asadollah Badamchian | Islamic Coalition Party | 294,861 | 13.96 |
| 4 | Seyyed Ali-Akbar Mousavi-Hosseini | Combatant Clergy Association | 124,058 | 5.81 |
| 5 | Seyyed Hassan Mousavi-Tabrizi | Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers | 56,587 | 2.68 |
| 6 | Mohammad Beheshti | — | 56,239 | 2.66 |
| 7 | Saeid Sadeghi | Development and Justice Party | 45,479 | 2.15 |
| 8 | Zahra Soleimani | — | 44,895 | 2.13 |
| 9 | Saeed Rajaee Khorasani | Independence Party of Iran | 43,253 | 2.05 |
| 10 | Leili Ahmadi | — | 40,346 | 1.91 |
| 11 | Mohammad-Hossein Tavakkoli | — | 38,056 | 1.80 |
| 12 | Ebrahim Azarpeyvand | — | 32,700 | 1.55 |
| 13 | Mahmoud Saber-Hamishegi | Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution | 32,132 | 1.52 |
| 14 | Mahmoud Ebrahimi | — | 30,935 | 1.47 |
| 15 | Hossein Rezakhah | Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude | 26,418 | 1.25 |
| 16 | Gholamreza Arefnasab | — | 26,376 | 1.25 |
| Total Votes | Total Votes | Total Votes | 2,111,037 | 100 |
| Source: ISNA |||||
