19–24 Mar 2028
Final result window, derived from the last election. Treat as final after Tehran time.
- Polls close
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- Ministry of Interior (Country Election Headquarters)
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moi.ir
Iran legislative election 2028
Polling day Date not yet official. Counted by Ministry of Interior (Country Election Headquarters). Times are Tehran time; hover for UTC.
Count stages
15 Mar29 Mar12 Apr26 Apr10 May24 May
Election-night count
Election-night count: Fri 17 Mar, 18:00 → Sun 19 Mar, 23:59, precedent.
Final result
Final result: Sun 19 Mar, 00:00 → Fri 24 Mar, 23:59, precedent.
Court validation
Court validation: Sun 19 Mar, 00:00 → Fri 26 May, 23:59, estimate.
Stage windows and their sources
- Election-night count→precedentVoting runs for at least 10 hours on an official holiday and may be extended by the Minister of Interior (Electoral Law for Parliamentary Elections art. 10, 1999 translation); hours are not yet set, so the close used is 18:00 IRST (UTC+3:30, no DST), 14:30 UTC. County and district governors confirm each district's result with the Guardian Council's supervisory board after the count and may then announce it (law, results article). 2024 precedent (polling Fri 1 Mar 2024): voting was extended three times, until midnight; official preliminary results for Tehran came on Saturday 2 Mar (Al Jazeera, 2 Mar 2024). The window closes at the end of Sunday local. District results are provisional until the Guardian Council validates them. DATE (tentative, latest lawful date): the 12th Majlis began on 7 Khordad 1403 = Mon 27 May 2024 and its term is four years (Constitution art. 63), ending 6 Khordad 1407 = Fri 26 May 2028. The amended Majlis election law (28/05/1402) reportedly requires voting at least 70 days before the end of the term (wording not read in full; see source note). 70 days before 26 May 2028 is Fri 17 Mar 2028 (27 Esfand 1406); the next Friday, 24 Mar, would be only 63 days before. Without the 70-day rule the Constitution only says 'before the end of the previous term'. The Interior Ministry's spokesperson placed the election in March 2028 under the current calendar and has floated a combined parliamentary-presidential election in May 2028 (Tasnim, 19 Sep 2026; a proposal, not law). 2024 was held on 11 Esfand 1402 (1 Mar 2024); any earlier Friday is also lawful. Elections can be suspended in wartime (art. 68).
- Final result→precedent2024 precedent: the Ministry of Interior's nationwide results, with turnout, came on Monday 4 Mar 2024, three days after the 1 Mar vote: 245 of 290 seats were filled and 45 went to a second round (election HQ spokesman Mohsen Eslami, Al Jazeera, 4 Mar 2024). The 2028 window opens at the end of Saturday and closes at the end of Friday 24 Mar 2028 local, a week after polling day, as an err-late margin, also because the Nowruz holidays begin on 20 Mar 2028 (1 Farvardin 1407). FIRST ROUND ONLY: seats not filled go to a second round on a date the Ministry of Interior sets with the Guardian Council within one month after the first-round results are announced and confirmed (law art. 9 note 3, 1999 translation); in 2024 that runoff was on Fri 10 May, ten weeks later (Al Jazeera, 10 May 2024). The chamber's full membership is known only after that round. The results still await the Guardian Council's validation (next stage).
- Court validation→estimateThe Guardian Council supervises the election (Constitution art. 99) and issuing credentials depends on the absence of an invalidation ruling from it; it 'must announce its opinion on the election's validity as soon as possible' and the Ministry of Interior then orders the credentials issued within 48 hours (Electoral Law for Parliamentary Elections, 1999 translation, credential articles). No fixed deadline. Complaints about the conduct of the election go to the Council within seven days of polling day; district boards decide on complaints within seven days. ESTIMATE: the window closes at the end of the outgoing Majlis term, 6 Khordad 1407 (Fri 26 May 2028), because the Constitution requires each election to be completed so that the country is never without a Majlis (art. 63) and in 2024 the new Majlis first sat on the day the previous term ended (27 May 2024). No 2024 date for the Council's validation was confirmed from a readable official source (shora-gc.ir unreachable).
Results sources
| URL | Role | Kind | Can answer a results question | Last check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| moi.ir | see-also | emb home | no | |
| shora-gc.ir | court-validation | emb home | no | |
| fa.wikisource.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%A8_%DB%B1%DB%B3%DB%B6%DB%B8) | timetable | other | no | |
| irandataportal.syr.edu/the-electoral-law-for-parliamentary-elections | timetable | other | no | |
| tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026/09/19/3700321/iran-mulls-simultaneous-parliamentary-presidential-elections | timetable | other | no | |
| aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/4/voter-turnout-hits-new-low-as-conservatives-dominate-irans-parliament | see-also | other | no | |
| en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iranian_legislative_election | see-also | other | no |
Cite, embed, correct
Global Election Index, “Iran legislative election 2028”, https://electionindex.org/election/iran-legislative-2028, dataset 2026-10-02.be7d6f40. CC BY 4.0.
Embed code
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Questions and answers
- When is the Iran legislative election 2028?
- Polling day is 2028-03-17, not yet officially confirmed.
- When will the final result of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) race be official?
- Expected between 2028-03-18T20:30:00Z and 2028-03-24T20:29:59Z (UTC), confidence precedent. 2024 precedent: the Ministry of Interior's nationwide results, with turnout, came on Monday 4 Mar 2024, three days after the 1 Mar vote: 245 of 290 seats were filled and 45 went to a second round (election HQ spokesman Mohsen Eslami, Al Jazeera, 4 Mar 2024). The 2028 window opens at the end of Saturday and closes at the end of Friday 24 Mar 2028 local, a week after polling day, as an err-late margin, also because the Nowruz holidays begin on 20 Mar 2028 (1 Farvardin 1407). FIRST ROUND ONLY: seats not filled go to a second round on a date the Ministry of Interior sets with the Guardian Council within one month after the first-round results are announced and confirmed (law art. 9 note 3, 1999 translation); in 2024 that runoff was on Fri 10 May, ten weeks later (Al Jazeera, 10 May 2024). The chamber's full membership is known only after that round. The results still await the Guardian Council's validation (next stage).
- Where are the official Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) results?
- No single-election results page is recorded yet. The counting authority is Ministry of Interior (Country Election Headquarters) (https://www.moi.ir/).