1980 Iranian presidential election

{{Infobox election

| election_name = 1980 Iranian presidential election

| country = Iran

| flag_image = Flag of Iran (1964).svg

| type = presidential

| ongoing = no

| next_election = July 1981 Iranian presidential election

| next_year = July 1981

| election_date = 25 January 1980

| registered = 20,993,643

| turnout = 67.42%

| image1 = Abolhassan Banisadr portrait 1980 1.jpg

| nominee1 = Abolhassan Banisadr

| party1 = Independent politician

| popular_vote1 = 10,709,330

| percentage1 = 75.6%

| image2 = Ahmad Madani by NLAI.jpg

| nominee2 = Ahmad Madani

| party2 = Independent politician

| popular_vote2 = 2,224,554

| percentage2 = 15.71%

| title = President

| after_election = Abolhassan Banisadr

| after_party = Independent politician

}}

Presidential elections were held for the first time in Iran on 25 January 1980, one year after the Iranian Revolution when the Council of the Islamic Revolution was in power. Abolhassan Banisadr was elected president with 76% of the vote.

Candidates

The number of the candidates registered to run for the presidency was 124, but only 96 of them were allowed to run. There were only 8 candidates with ballot access and the rest of candidates were write-in.

= Candidates with ballot access =

;Party nominees

;Non-partisan candidates

Abolhassan Banisadr
Ahmad Madani (National Front member)
Sadeq Tabatabaei (Freedom Movement member)
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (Freedom Movement member)
Mohammad Mokri (National Front member)

= Withdrew =

Hassan Ayat (Independent; Islamic Republican Party member), endorsed Jalaleddin Farsi
Jalaleddin Farsi (Islamic Republican Party nominee), ineligible to run for the office due to his Afghan origin
Sadegh Khalkhali (Independent), endorsed Abolhassan Banisadr
Massoud Rajavi (People's Mujahedin of Iran nominee), forced to withdraw for opposing the Islamic Republic constitution

= Declined to run =

Ruhollah Khomeini, incumbent Supreme Leader of Iran
Mohammad Beheshti, incumbent Chief Justice of Iran
Mehdi Bazargan, former Prime Minister of Iran

Endorsements

class="wikitable"
Organization	Candidate
Combatant Clergy Association \|Abolhassan Banisadr{{cite web\|url=http://www.irdc.ir/FA/content/30110/default.aspx\|title=First Term of Presidential Elections; 25 January 1980\|trans-title=اولین دوره انتخابات ریاست جمهوری؛ 5 بهمن 1358\|language=Persian\|id=30110\|access-date=28 October 2016\|publisher=Islamic Revolution Document Center\|url-status=dead\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303195801/http://www.irdc.ir/FA/content/30110/default.aspx\|archivedate=3 March 2014}}
Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom \|Hassan Habibi {{small\|(Replaced Abolhassan Banisadr)}}
Islamic Republican Party \|Hassan Habibi {{small\|(Replaced Jalaleddin Farsi)}}
Freedom Movement of Iran \|None
Tudeh Party of Iran \|Hassan Habibi{{cite web\|author=Fattah Gholami\|url=http://jamejamonline.ir/ayam/1807989577116624823/اولین-انتخابات-ریاست-جمهوری-چگونه-برگزار-شد\|title=How the First Term of Presidential Elections Was Held\|trans-title=اولین انتخابات ریاست جمهوری چگونه برگزار شد\|language=Persian\|id=383451\|access-date=28 October 2016\|date=25 January 2015\|publisher=Jaam-e Jam\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031193034/http://jamejamonline.ir/ayam/1807989577116624823/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C-%DA%86%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D8%AF\|archive-date=31 October 2016\|url-status=dead}}
Nation Party of Iran \|Dariush Forouhar
Revolutionary Movement of Muslim People of Iran \|Kazem Sami
People's Mujahedin of Iran \|None {{small\|(Initially Massoud Rajavi)}}{{citation\|author=Ervand Abrahamian\|title=Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin\|publisher=I.B.Tauris\|date=1989\|isbn=9781850430773\|volume=3\|series=Society and culture in the modern Middle East\|at=p. 198}}
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan \|None {{small\|(Initially Massoud Rajavi)}}Entessar, Nader. "Kurdish Politics in Regional Context". In Kurdish Politics in the Middle East. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. p. 44. {{ISBN\|0739140396}}, 9780739140390
Organization of People's Fedaian Majority and Minority \|None {{small\|(Initially Massoud Rajavi)}}{{Citation\|last=Parsa\|first=Misagh\|year=1989\|title=Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution\|publisher=Rutgers University Press\|page=255\|isbn=0813514126}}
Movement of Militant Muslims \|None
Socialist Workers' Party of Iran \|Babak Zahraei
Fada'iyan-e Islam \|Abolhassan Banisadr
Islamic Association of Teachers of Iran \|Abolhassan Banisadr

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Organization

Candidate

Combatant Clergy Association

|Abolhassan Banisadr{{cite web|url=http://www.irdc.ir/FA/content/30110/default.aspx|title=First Term of Presidential Elections; 25 January 1980|trans-title=اولین دوره انتخابات ریاست جمهوری؛ 5 بهمن 1358|language=Persian|id=30110|access-date=28 October 2016|publisher=Islamic Revolution Document Center|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303195801/http://www.irdc.ir/FA/content/30110/default.aspx|archivedate=3 March 2014}}

Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom

|Hassan Habibi {{small|(Replaced Abolhassan Banisadr)}}

Islamic Republican Party

|Hassan Habibi {{small|(Replaced Jalaleddin Farsi)}}

Freedom Movement of Iran

|None

Tudeh Party of Iran

|Hassan Habibi{{cite web|author=Fattah Gholami|url=http://jamejamonline.ir/ayam/1807989577116624823/اولین-انتخابات-ریاست-جمهوری-چگونه-برگزار-شد|title=How the First Term of Presidential Elections Was Held|trans-title=اولین انتخابات ریاست جمهوری چگونه برگزار شد|language=Persian|id=383451|access-date=28 October 2016|date=25 January 2015|publisher=Jaam-e Jam|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031193034/http://jamejamonline.ir/ayam/1807989577116624823/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C-%DA%86%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D8%AF|archive-date=31 October 2016|url-status=dead}}

Nation Party of Iran

|Dariush Forouhar

Revolutionary Movement of Muslim People of Iran

|Kazem Sami

People's Mujahedin of Iran

|None {{small|(Initially Massoud Rajavi)}}{{citation|author=Ervand Abrahamian|title=Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin|publisher=I.B.Tauris|date=1989|isbn=9781850430773|volume=3|series=Society and culture in the modern Middle East|at=p. 198}}

Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan

|None {{small|(Initially Massoud Rajavi)}}Entessar, Nader. "Kurdish Politics in Regional Context". In Kurdish Politics in the Middle East. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. p. 44. {{ISBN|0739140396}}, 9780739140390

Organization of People's Fedaian Majority and Minority

|None {{small|(Initially Massoud Rajavi)}}{{Citation|last=Parsa|first=Misagh|year=1989|title=Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution|publisher=Rutgers University Press|page=255|isbn=0813514126}}

Movement of Militant Muslims

|None

Socialist Workers' Party of Iran

|Babak Zahraei

Fada'iyan-e Islam

|Abolhassan Banisadr

Islamic Association of Teachers of Iran

|Abolhassan Banisadr

Election results

Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as president.

= Nationwide =

class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;" ! colspan="6" \| 1980 Iranian presidential election
colspan="2" \| Party ! Candidate ! Votes ! %
style="background:#DDDDDD; width:3px;" \| \| Independent \| Abolhassan Banisadr \| style="text-align:right;" \| 10,709,330 \| style="text-align:right;" \| 75.6
style="background:#DDDDDD; width:3px;" \| \| IndependentNational Front member \| Ahmad Madani \| style="text-align:right;" \| 2,224,554 \| style="text-align:right;" \| 15.71
style="background:#000000; width:3px;" \| \| Islamic Republican Party \| Hassan Habibi \| style="text-align:right;" \| 674,859 \| style="text-align:right;" \| 3.35
style="background:{{party color\|Nation Party of Iran}}; width:3px;" \| \| Nation Party \| Dariush Forouhar \| style="text-align:right;" \| 133,478 \| style="text-align:right;" \| 0.94
style="background:#DDDDDD; width:3px;" \| \| IndependentFreedom Movement of Iran member \| Sadeq Tabatabaei \| style="text-align:right;" \| 114,776 \| style="text-align:right;" \| 0.81
style="background:#8080ff; width:3px;" \| \| JAMA \| Kazem Sami \| style="text-align:right;" \| 89,270 \| style="text-align:right;" \| 0.63
style="background:#DDDDDD; width:3px;" \| \| Independent \| Sadegh Ghotbzadeh \| style="text-align:right;" \| 48,547 \| style="text-align:right;" \| 0.34
colspan="3"\| Other candidates \| style="text-align:right;" \| 2,110 \| style="text-align:right;" \| 0.01
style="background:#eee" \| colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" \| Valid votes \| style="text-align:right;" \| 13,994,814 \| style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 \| 98.93
style="background:#eee" \| colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" \| Blank or invalid votes \| style="text-align:right;" \| 151,806 \| style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 \| 1.07
style="background:#eee" \| colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" \| Totals \| style="text-align:right;" \| 14,146,620 \| style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 \| 100
style="background:#eee" \| colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" \| Voter turnout \| colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" \| 67.42
colspan="7"\|{{reflist\|group=lower-alpha}} Sources: Nohlen et al{{cite book\|first1=Dieter\|last1=Nohlen\|author-link1=Dieter Nohlen\|first2=Florian\|last2=Grotz\|first3=Christof \|last3=Hartmann \|year=2001\|title=Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook\|chapter=Iran\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|volume=I\|page=75\|isbn=0-19-924958-X}} and Iran Social Science Data Portal{{cite web\|title=1980 Presidential Election\|url=http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/pres/1980/\|publisher=Princeton University\|access-date=15 February 2013\|work=Iran Social Science Data Portal\|archive-date=4 March 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304190442/http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/pres/1980/\|url-status=dead}}

class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"

! colspan="6" | 1980 Iranian presidential election

colspan="2" | Party

! Candidate

! Votes

! %

style="background:#DDDDDD; width:3px;" |

| Independent

| Abolhassan Banisadr

| style="text-align:right;" | 10,709,330

| style="text-align:right;" | 75.6

style="background:#DDDDDD; width:3px;" |

| IndependentNational Front member

| Ahmad Madani

| style="text-align:right;" | 2,224,554

| style="text-align:right;" | 15.71

style="background:#000000; width:3px;" |

| Islamic Republican Party

| Hassan Habibi

| style="text-align:right;" | 674,859

| style="text-align:right;" | 3.35

style="background:{{party color|Nation Party of Iran}}; width:3px;" |

| Nation Party

| Dariush Forouhar

| style="text-align:right;" | 133,478

| style="text-align:right;" | 0.94

style="background:#DDDDDD; width:3px;" |

| IndependentFreedom Movement of Iran member

| Sadeq Tabatabaei

| style="text-align:right;" | 114,776

| style="text-align:right;" | 0.81

style="background:#8080ff; width:3px;" |

| JAMA

| Kazem Sami

| style="text-align:right;" | 89,270

| style="text-align:right;" | 0.63

style="background:#DDDDDD; width:3px;" |

| Independent

| Sadegh Ghotbzadeh

| style="text-align:right;" | 48,547

| style="text-align:right;" | 0.34

colspan="3"| Other candidates

| style="text-align:right;" | 2,110

| style="text-align:right;" | 0.01

style="background:#eee"

| colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | Valid votes

| style="text-align:right;" | 13,994,814

| style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 | 98.93

style="background:#eee"

| colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | Blank or invalid votes

| style="text-align:right;" | 151,806

| style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 | 1.07

style="background:#eee"

| colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | Totals

| style="text-align:right;" | 14,146,620

| style="text-align:right;" colspan=2 | 100

style="background:#eee"

| colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | Voter turnout

| colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | 67.42

colspan="7"|{{reflist|group=lower-alpha}}

Sources: Nohlen et al{{cite book|first1=Dieter|last1=Nohlen|author-link1=Dieter Nohlen|first2=Florian|last2=Grotz|first3=Christof |last3=Hartmann |year=2001|title=Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook|chapter=Iran|publisher=Oxford University Press|volume=I|page=75|isbn=0-19-924958-X}} and Iran Social Science Data Portal{{cite web|title=1980 Presidential Election|url=http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/pres/1980/|publisher=Princeton University|access-date=15 February 2013|work=Iran Social Science Data Portal|archive-date=4 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304190442/http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/pres/1980/|url-status=dead}}

= Tehran =

#	Candidate	Votes
class="wikitable"
1	Abolhassan Banisadr	1,833,197
2	Ahmad Madani	553,557
3	Hassan Habibi	90,228
4	Sadeq Tabatabaei	28,676
5	Kazem Sami	24,676
6	Dariush Forouhar	22,221
7	Sadegh Ghotbzadeh	12,207
8	Mohammad Mokri	299
9	Mahmoud Seirafizadeh	169
colspan=2\|Others	<100

References

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