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

Name	Official Name	Type
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	مجلس شورای اسلامی / Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami	Assembly
Iranian President	رئیس‌جمهور ایران / Rayis Jomhur-e Irān	Head of Government
Iranian Assembly of Experts for Leadership	Majles-e Khobragan Rahbari	Constituent Assembly

Chief of State: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Hoseini- KHAMENEI (since 4 June 1989)
Head of Government: President Seyyed Ebrahim RAISI (since 3 August 2021)
Assembly: Iran has a unicameral Islamic Consultative Assembly (مجلس شورای اسلامی) with 290 seats.

The The Supreme Leader is appointed for life by the Assembly of Experts.
The President is directly elected by absolute majority vote in up to two rounds. The President may serve up to three 4-year terms, but only two terms may be served consecutively.
In the Islamic Consultative Assembly, 285 members are directly elected by absolute majority vote in up to two rounds. An additional 5 seats are reserved for representatives of the Zoroastrian, Jewish, Assyrian, Chaldean Christian, northern Armenian, and southern Armenian communities (1 seat each).

Election For	Date	Votes	Registered Voters	Turn Out
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	2000-02-18	-	32,000,000	-
Iranian President	2001-06-08	28,081,930	38,700,000	72.56
Iranian President	2005-06-17	29,317,039	46,786,418	62.66
Iranian President	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 President	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 President	2013-06-14	36,704,156	50,483,192	72.71
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	2016-02-26	-	-	-
Iranian President	2017-05-19	41,220,131	50,483,192	81.65
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	2020-02-21	24,512,000	57,918,000	42.32
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	2020-09-11	-	-	-
Iranian President	2021-06-16	28,750,736	59,310,307	48.48
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly	2024-03-01	-	-	-

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