Extraordinary presidential elections in Iran in 1981, held October 2, 1981. The need to hold extraordinary elections was caused by the murder on August 30 of the same year by the previous president, Mohammad Ali Rajai . Ali Khamenei won a convincing victory in the early elections, gaining 97% of the votes that came to the polls [1] .
← 1981, July  1985 → | |||
| Presidential Election in Iran (October 1981) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981, October | |||
| 2 October | |||
| Voter turnout | 79% | ||
 |  | | |
| Candidate | Ali Khamenei | Ali Akbar Parvaresh | Hassan Gafurifar |
| The consignment | Islamic Republican Party | Independent | Islamic Coalition Party |
| Votes | 16,007,072 (97.1%) | 341 841 (2.1%) | 75,658 (0.5%) |
| Election result | Ali Khamenei is elected president of Iran. | ||
| Election results | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The consignment | Candidate | Number of votes | % | |||
| Islamic Republican Party | Ali Khamenei | 16,007,072 | 97.1% | |||
| Independent | Ali Akbar Parvaresh | 341,841 | 2.1% | |||
| Islamic Coalition Party | Hassan Gafurifar | 75,658 | 0.5% | |||
| Independent | Reza Zavarei | 62,156 | 0.4% | |||
| Invalid bulletins | 360,269 | |||||
| Total | 16,846,996 | 100.00% | ||||
| Turnout | 79% | |||||
| Source: Iranian Ministry of the Interior | ||||||
Notes
- ↑ princeton.edu Archival copy of March 4, 2013 on Wayback Machine 1981 Presidential Election