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.
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| Registered | 20,993,643 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 67.42% | ||||||||||||||||
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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
Election results
Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as president.
Nationwide
| 1980 Iranian presidential election | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
| Independent | Abolhassan Banisadr | 10,709,330 | 75.6 | |||
| Independent | Ahmad Madani | 2,224,554 | 15.71 | |||
| Islamic Republican Party | Hassan Habibi | 674,859 | 3.35 | |||
| Nation Party | Dariush Forouhar | 133,478 | 0.94 | |||
| Independent | Sadeq Tabatabaei | 114,776 | 0.81 | |||
| JAMA | Kazem Sami | 89,270 | 0.63 | |||
| Independent | Sadegh Ghotbzadeh | 48,547 | 0.34 | |||
| Other candidates | 2,110 | 0.01 | ||||
| Valid votes | 13,994,814 | 98.93 | ||||
| Blank or invalid votes | 151,806 | 1.07 | ||||
| Totals | 14,146,620 | 100 | ||||
| Voter turnout | 67.42 | |||||
Sources: Nohlen et al and Iran Social Science Data Portal | ||||||
Tehran
| # | Candidate | Votes |
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| 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 |
| Others | <100 | |