IFES Election Guide | Country Profile: Iran, Islamic Republic of

Name	Official Name	Type
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami	Assembly
Iranian Supreme Leader	Maqām mo'azzam rahbari	Head of State
Iranian Assembly of Experts for Leadership	Majles-e Khobragan Rahbari	Constituent Assembly

Chief of State: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Hoseini- KHAMENEI *
Head of Government: President Ebrahim RAISI
Assembly: Iran has a unicameral Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami) with 290 seats.

* The Leader of the Islamic Revolution is appointed for life by the Assembly of Experts.

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution is appointed.
The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 4-year term.
In the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami) 290 members are elected by qualified plurality vote to serve 4-year terms.
- District magnitudes range from one to six. Five of 290 seats are reserved to recognized religious minorities. The electoral system is based on the multiple non-transferable vote (i.e. voters have as many votes to cast as there are seats to fill in the respective constituency). The victory threshold for a candidate is 25 percent, however. If no candidate exceeds 25 percent of votes in the first round, a second-round election is held. Two-way ties are broken by lot. There are no clear provisions for breaking ties among three or more candidates.

Election For	Date	Votes	Registered Voters	Turn Out
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	2000-02-18	-	32,000,000	-
Iranian Supreme Leader	2001-06-08	28,081,930	38,700,000	72.56%
Iranian Supreme Leader	2005-06-17	29,317,039	46,786,418	62.66%
Iranian Supreme Leader	2005-06-24	27,959,253	46,786,418	59.76%
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	2008-03-14	24,240,269	49,000,000	49.47%
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	2008-04-25	5,443,161	49,000,000	11.11%
Iranian Supreme Leader	2009-06-12	39,371,214	46,200,000	85.22%
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	2012-03-02	32,469,937	32,469,937	100.0%
Iranian Supreme Leader	2013-06-14	36,704,156	50,483,192	72.71%
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	2016-02-26	-	-	-
Iranian Assembly of Experts for Leadership	2016-02-26	-	-	-
Iranian Supreme Leader	2017-05-19	41,220,131	50,483,192	-
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	2020-02-28	24,512,000	57,918,000	-
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	2020-09-11	-	-	-
Iranian Supreme Leader	2021-06-16	28,750,736	59,310,307	-