Election Office (Iran)

The Election Office (Persian: ستاد انتخابات کشور) is the body charged for implementation of election procedures in Iran and is subordinate to the Ministry of Interior.[2]

Election Office
Election commission overview
JurisdictionIran
HeadquartersTehran, Iran
Minister responsible
Election commission executive
  • Mohammad-Taghi Shahcheraghi [1], Head
Parent departmentMinistry of Interior

List of Heads

Date appointedNameElections heldMinisterPresident
1997Mostafa Tajzadeh1998 experts
1999 councils
2000 parliament
Abdolvahed Mousavi LariMohammad Khatami
2001Morteza Moballegh2001 president
2003 councils
2004 parliament
2005 president
7 October 2006[3]Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi2006 councils/expertsMostafa PourmohammadiMahmoud Ahmadinejad
24 November 2007[4]Alireza Afshar2008 parliament
16 March 2009[5]Kamran Daneshjoo2009 presidentSadegh Mahsouli
17 May 2011[6]Sowlat Mortazavi2012 parliament
2013 president/councils
Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar
12 April 2015[7]Mohammad-Hossein Moghimi2016 parliament/expertsAbdolreza Rahmani FazliHassan Rouhani
30 December 2016[8]Ali-Asghar Ahmadi2017 presidential/councils

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