After the scandalous final two years of his term, Mohammad Khatami was expected to be elected by a much smaller margin than in 1997. His term was marred by the unlawful arrest of political activists, killings of Iranian dissidents, and closure of several Iranian newspapers. Though Khatami was still believed to win by a landslide, this oppression was thought to significantly impact his performance in the election.[5] Initially, Khatami had considered not running for reelection. But, after months of his supporters and party members pleading with him, he finally decided to declare his candidacy two months before the start of the election.[6] Central to Khatami's campaign were the issues of economic revival, job growth, and democratic reform. Khatami also sought to restore the austerity of the Iranian Revolution.[7] According to CNN, Khatami's aides described his campaign as a “referendum for reform”. [8] Most of Khatami's nine other challengers were independent conservatives, according to BBC. [9]
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Presidential elections were held in Iran on 8 June 2001 and resulted in Mohammad Khatami being elected as the President of Iran for his second term 2001 Iranian presidential election 1997 8 June 2001 2005 Registered42 170 230 1 Turnout66 77 1 Nominee Mohammad Khatami Ahmad TavakkoliAlliance 2nd of Khordad CCIRFPopular vote 21 656 476 4 387 112Percentage 76 90 15 58 Percentage of votes that went to Mohammad Khatami per countyPresident before electionMohammad KhatamiACC Elected President Mohammad KhatamiACC Contents 1 Candidates 2 Campaign 3 Results 3 1 Turnout 4 ReferencesCandidates editAlthough 814 candidates registered for the election 1 including 25 women 2 the Guardian Council reduced it to ten The final candidates were 3 4 Mohammad Khatami Incumbent President Ahmad Tavakkoli Former Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Ali Shamkhani Incumbent Minister of Defense Abdollah Jassbi Incumbent Chancellor of Islamic Azad University Mahmoud Kashani Former Iranian delegation to the International Court of Justice Hassan Ghafourifard Former Minister of Energy and Member of Parliament Mansour Razavi Incumbent Member of City Council of Tehran Shahabedin Sadr Former Member of Parliament Ali Fallahian Former Minister of Intelligence Mostafa Hashemitaba Incumbent Head of Physical Education OrganizationCampaign editAfter the scandalous final two years of his term Mohammad Khatami was expected to be elected by a much smaller margin than in 1997 His term was marred by the unlawful arrest of political activists killings of Iranian dissidents and closure of several Iranian newspapers Though Khatami was still believed to win by a landslide this oppression was thought to significantly impact his performance in the election 5 Initially Khatami had considered not running for reelection But after months of his supporters and party members pleading with him he finally decided to declare his candidacy two months before the start of the election 6 Central to Khatami s campaign were the issues of economic revival job growth and democratic reform Khatami also sought to restore the austerity of the Iranian Revolution 7 According to CNN Khatami s aides described his campaign as a referendum for reform 8 Most of Khatami s nine other challengers were independent conservatives according to BBC 9 Results edit2001 Iranian presidential electionCandidate Votes Mohammad Khatami 21 656 476 76 90Ahmad Tavakkoli 4 387 112 15 58Ali Shamkhani 737 051 2 61Abdollah Jassbi 259 759 0 92Mahmoud Kashani 237 660 0 84Hassan Ghafourifard 129 155 0 45Mansour Razavi 114 616 0 40Shahabedin Sadr 60 546 0 21Ali Fallahian 55 225 0 19Mostafa Hashemitaba 27 949 0 09Valid votes 27 665 549 98 25Blank or invalid votes 493 740 1 75Totals 28 159 289 100 00 Sources Sahliyeh 2 and RFE RL 10 Turnout edit Voter Turnout Data by Province 1 Province Electorate Actual Voters TurnoutArdabil 806 656 467 859 58 East Azerbaijan 2 439 446 1 294 682 53 07 West Azerbaijan 1 726 987 974 181 56 41 Bushehr 512 382 365 099 71 26 Esfahan 2 852 882 1 735 814 60 84 Fars 2 676 431 1 821 626 68 06 Gilan 1 685 173 1 097 403 65 12 Golestan 964 042 725 934 75 3 Hamadan 1 179 237 743 372 63 04 Hormozgan 695 182 530 336 76 29 Ilam 325 224 250 759 77 1 Kerman 1 411 555 998 371 70 73 Kermanshah 1 243 128 790 685 63 6 Khorasan 4 129 936 3 124 814 75 66 Khuzestan 2 487 136 1 474 820 59 3 Kohgiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad 353 054 270 417 76 59 Kurdistan 910 364 486 596 53 45 Lorestan 1 080 763 702 936 65 04 Markazi 883 979 565 018 63 92 Mazandaran 1 900 246 1 302 654 68 55 Qazvin 670 614 500 917 74 7 Qom 555 944 428 005 76 99 Semnan 366 427 285 964 78 04 Sistan and Baluchestan 1 001 596 702 444 70 13 Tehran 7 643 471 5 202 274 68 06 Yazd 525 981 468 982 89 16 Zanjan 623 464 429 389 68 87 References edit a b c d 2001 Presidential Election The Iran Social Science Data Portal Princeton University retrieved 10 August 2015 a b Sahliyeh Emile 2002 The Reforming Elections in Iran 2000 2001 Electoral Studies 21 3 Elsevier 526 533 doi 10 1016 S0261 3794 01 00041 5 Muir Jim 1 June 2001 Iran election People and policies BBC Retrieved 28 June 2013 Iran s Presidential Candidates The Associated Press The Washington Post 5 June 2001 Archived from the original on 14 April 2017 Retrieved 25 January 2017 Esfandiari Haleh 2002 An Assessment of the Iranian Presidential Elections Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars p 1 Esfandiari Haleh 2002 An Assessment of the Iranian Presidential Elections Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars p 2 Esfandiari Haleh 2002 An Assessment of the Iranian Presidential Elections Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars pp 2 3 Presidential election in Iran Iran election People and policies Samii Bill 11 June 2001 Four More Years of What Iran Report 4 22 Free Europe Radio Liberty nbsp nbsp This Iranian elections related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2001 Iranian presidential 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