General Information
At Stake in this Election:
- All 290 seats in the Islamic Consultative Assembly
- Chief of State: Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini KHAMENEI (since 4 June 1989)
- Head of Government: President Seyyed Ebrahim RAISI (since 18 June 2021)
- Assembly: unicameral Islamic Consultative Assembly (مجلس شورای اسلامی) with 290 seats
- 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).
In the 2019 legislative election, the United Front of Conservatives won a majority with 230 seats (221 seats in the first round). Voter turnout was 42%.
Key Deadlines:
- Candidate filing deadline: 3 November 2023
- Voter registration deadline: None, all citizens who are at least 18 years old may vote.
Over 13,500 candidates have been approved by the Guardian Council to participate in the election.
Population:
- Population: 88,550,570 (2022 est.)
Gender Data:
- Female Population: 43,835,980 (2022 est.)
- CEDAW Status: Not signed
- Gender Quota: Not available
- Female Candidates in this election: Yes
- Number of Female Legislators (pre-election): 16 out of 286 (5.6%) in the Islamic Consultative Council
- Human Development Index (HDI) Position: 0.774, High, Rank 76 (2021)
- Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: 62.9 (2023)
Disability Data:
- CRPD Status: Ratified (by accession) 23 October 2009
- Projected population with a disability: 14,168,091 (2022 est.)
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