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Iran: Majlis deputies elected by only 7 to 9 percent

Active ImageOfficial counts demonstrates mullahs' Majlis deputies elected by only 7 to 9 percent
Sham Majlis elections – 12
NCRI – Government-run media came up with the final figures of vote counts on Monday night. Despite vote riggings and claim of 60 percent turn-out, the mullahs' regime was not able to announce more than 1,909,000 turn-out for Greater Tehran.

Tehran's Governorates office announced that there were 6,403,308 eligible voters. According to the last consensus in 2006 the number of eligible voters over 18 years old was more than 49,500,000. However, the actual figure for Tehran is 7,235,000. According to the figures published in the last Friday's elections, 26 percent of all voters went to ballot boxes. Obviously the true number for eligible voters is higher than both official figures.

More ridiculous was the individual vote counts for each candidate; vote counts for Gholamali Hadad Adel, the first election winner in Tehran, the current Majlis speaker, who is a Khamenei favorite and approved by his faction as well as that of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, won the election by 844,220 votes, only 11.5 percent of all eligible voters. The second seat was won by Morteza Aqa Tehrani, with eight percent, and Assodollah Badamchian was the bottom of the list with only six percent of all votes.

According to the eyewitness accounts from 25,000 polling stations monitored by the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) network on the Election Day nationwide and journalists as well as independent sources, more than 95 percent of Iranian people boycotted the sham Elections. 

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 18, 2008