{ "data": { "id": "iran-legislative-2024", "country": "IR", "country_name": "Iran", "level": "national", "subdivision": null, "subdivision_name": null, "date": "2024-03-01", "date_status": "declared", "date_window": null, "kind": "legislative", "conditional": null, "timezone": "Asia/Tehran", "status": "final-expected", "last_verified_at": "2026-10-03T12:00:00Z", "stale": false, "stale_reason": null, "provenance": { "from": "researcher agent 2026-10-03: Guardian Council news site shora-gc.ir items 9933, 9943, 9944, 9962, 9968, 9972, 9973, 10105, 10116, read through r.jina.ai; Electoral Law for Parliamentary Elections, English translation (Iran Data Portal); Al Jazeera 2 and 4 Mar 2024 for the closing hour and the nationwide results date. moi.ir (geo-blocked) unreachable", "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (Election Index); dates only, no vote counts (candidates stand individually: no national per-list vote)" }, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/iran-legislative-2024", "races": [ { "id": "majlis", "key": "iran-legislative-2024/majlis", "name": "Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis)", "body": "legislature-unicameral", "seats": 290, "seats_provisional": false, "polls_close_utc": "2024-03-01T20:30:00Z", "authority": { "id": "ir-moi", "name": "Ministry of Interior (Country Election Headquarters)", "name_local": "وزارت کشور (ستاد انتخابات کشور)", "role": "ministry", "homepage": "https://www.moi.ir/", "results_index": null, "open_data": null }, "status": "final-expected", "expected_stage_now": "court-validation", "observed": true, "final_observed": null, "final_expected": { "from": "2024-03-01T20:30:00Z", "by": "2024-03-08T20:29:59Z", "confidence": "estimate", "basis": "POLLS CLOSE: Legal hours 08:00-18:00 IRST (Guardian Council spokesman, shora-gc.ir news 9933, 1 Mar 2024, citing art. 11 of the Majlis Electoral Law: 'مدت زمان انتخابات ۱۰ ساعت یعنی از ساعت ۸ الی ۱۸ است'; the Ministry may extend by up to three hours itself, beyond that with the Council). At 00:40 IRST on 2 Mar the spokesman referred to 'پایان یافتن زمان قانونی اخذ رای' (the end of the legal voting time), with voters still in the stations allowed to vote (news 9943). pollsCloseUtc is midnight local (20:30 UTC), the extension end reported by the press (Al Jazeera, 2 Mar 2024); the Council's pages do not state the hour. Verifier: confirm from an official source. FINAL RESULT: The Ministry of Interior (Country Election Headquarters) announces each constituency's result, with the governors and the Guardian Council's supervisory boards, and the nationwide outcome. No national deadline; the window (to the end of Fri 8 Mar 2024 local, a week after polling) is an estimate. The Guardian Council's site refers to the Ministry's announcement of results by 2 Mar 2024 15:04 IRST (news 9944) without dating it; the nationwide results (245 of 290 seats filled, 45 to a second round) were reported on 4 Mar 2024 by the press (Al Jazeera, 4 Mar 2024). With no official page dating the Ministry's act, observedAt is left out. FIRST ROUND ONLY: 45 seats in 22 constituencies went to a second round on Fri 10 May 2024 (21 Ordibehesht 1403), proposed by the Ministry and approved by the Guardian Council (news 9973, 10105). National per-candidate or per-list totals are not meaningful (candidates stand individually in 208 constituencies), so no results are given." }, "last_final": null, "previous": null, "stages": [ { "stage": "final-result", "from": "2024-03-01T20:30:00Z", "by": "2024-03-08T20:29:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "estimate", "citation": "POLLS CLOSE: Legal hours 08:00-18:00 IRST (Guardian Council spokesman, shora-gc.ir news 9933, 1 Mar 2024, citing art. 11 of the Majlis Electoral Law: 'مدت زمان انتخابات ۱۰ ساعت یعنی از ساعت ۸ الی ۱۸ است'; the Ministry may extend by up to three hours itself, beyond that with the Council). At 00:40 IRST on 2 Mar the spokesman referred to 'پایان یافتن زمان قانونی اخذ رای' (the end of the legal voting time), with voters still in the stations allowed to vote (news 9943). pollsCloseUtc is midnight local (20:30 UTC), the extension end reported by the press (Al Jazeera, 2 Mar 2024); the Council's pages do not state the hour. Verifier: confirm from an official source. FINAL RESULT: The Ministry of Interior (Country Election Headquarters) announces each constituency's result, with the governors and the Guardian Council's supervisory boards, and the nationwide outcome. No national deadline; the window (to the end of Fri 8 Mar 2024 local, a week after polling) is an estimate. The Guardian Council's site refers to the Ministry's announcement of results by 2 Mar 2024 15:04 IRST (news 9944) without dating it; the nationwide results (245 of 290 seats filled, 45 to a second round) were reported on 4 Mar 2024 by the press (Al Jazeera, 4 Mar 2024). With no official page dating the Ministry's act, observedAt is left out. FIRST ROUND ONLY: 45 seats in 22 constituencies went to a second round on Fri 10 May 2024 (21 Ordibehesht 1403), proposed by the Ministry and approved by the Guardian Council (news 9973, 10105). National per-candidate or per-list totals are not meaningful (candidates stand individually in 208 constituencies), so no results are given.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null }, { "stage": "court-validation", "from": "2024-03-07T20:30:00Z", "by": "2024-05-26T20:29:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "estimate", "citation": "The Guardian Council supervises the election (Constitution art. 99) and must rule on each constituency's validity before credentials are issued; no fixed deadline (the window closes at the end of the outgoing Majlis term, 26 May 2024, an estimate). Complaints could be filed until 17 Esfand 1402, 7 Mar 2024 (news 9944). Observed: the Council approved the constituencies in batches (16, 17 and 18 Mar 2024: news 9962, 9968, 9972) and on 18 Mar 2024 announced 'صحت انتخابات مجلس شورای اسلامی در تمامی حوزه‌های انتخابیه تایید شد' (news 9973, published 28 Esfand 1402 19:38 IRST, 16:08 UTC, 'لحظاتی پیش' after a TV interview). observedAt is that publication time. Second round: validated in 21 of 22 constituencies on 21 May 2024 (news 10105) and in all, with Kermanshah, by 26 May 2024 15:28 IRST (news 10116); the 12th Majlis opened on 27 May 2024.", "source": null, "observedAt": "2024-03-18T16:08:00Z", "observedSource": "https://www.shora-gc.ir/fa/news/9973" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.shora-gc.ir/fa/news/9973", "role": "court-validation", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Guardian Council, news 9973, published 28 Esfand 1402 19:38 IRST (18 Mar 2024): 'صحت انتخابات مجلس شورای اسلامی در تمامی حوزه‌های انتخابیه تایید شد' (the validity of the Majlis election was approved in all constituencies); 189 constituencies by noon that day and the last 19 listed by name (one with the 2nd and 3rd placed sent to the second round under art. 65; one where a full recount swapped first and second); the second round set for 21 Ordibehesht 1403 (10 May 2024). Earlier batches: news 9962 (16 Mar, 52 constituencies), 9968 (17 Mar, 133 in total), 9972 (18 Mar, 56 more).", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.shora-gc.ir/fa/news/10116", "role": "court-validation", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Guardian Council, news 10116, 26 May 2024 15:28 IRST: with the approval of Kermanshah, the second-round Majlis election was validated in every constituency ('صحت انتخابات در همه حوزه‌های انتخابیه در دور دوم انتخابات مجلس تائید شده'). News 10105 (21 May 2024): the second round was held in 22 constituencies of 15 provinces on Fri 10 May 2024 for 45 seats; 21 validated that day.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.shora-gc.ir/fa/news/9944", "role": "see-also", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Guardian Council, news 9944, 2 Mar 2024 15:04 IRST: refers to the announcement of results by the Ministry of Interior, 'مجری انتخابات'; candidates had until 17 Esfand (7 Mar 2024) to file complaints (art. 86 note 2 of the Majlis Electoral Law).", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.moi.ir/", "role": "see-also", "kind": "emb_home", "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Ministry of Interior homepage; its Country Election Headquarters (ستاد انتخابات کشور) announced the results. moi.ir refuses requests from outside Iran (an r.jina.ai fetch on 3 Oct 2026 returned the site's own 403 page: 'درخواست از IP جغرافیایی شما به این وب سایت امکان پذیر نمی باشد', requests from your geographic IP are not allowed), and the Wayback Machine could not be reached, so the Ministry's own results announcement was not read and is not linked. Listed as the authority's site only, not as a results source. The Ministry publishes results per constituency; candidates stand as individuals, so there is no national per-list vote.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://irandataportal.syr.edu/the-electoral-law-for-parliamentary-elections", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Electoral Law for Parliamentary Elections (1999), English translation (Iran Data Portal): 290 seats (art. 2); first-round election needs a share of the votes (art. 8; changed by the 2023 amendment); second-round date set by the Ministry of Interior with the Guardian Council (art. 9 note 3); credentials only once the Guardian Council finds no ground for invalidation. The 2023 amendment is not reflected.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iranian_legislative_election", "role": "see-also", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "check": null } ], "page_activity": [], "government": null, "results": [], "live_count": null, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/iran-legislative-2024#majlis" } ] }, "meta": { "dataset_version": "2026-10-03.3531b9d3", "built_at": "2026-10-03T12:45:54Z", "generated_at": "2026-10-03T14:55:04.451Z", "licence": "CC BY 4.0: credit \"Global Election Index (electionindex.org)\" and link to https://electionindex.org", "docs": "https://electionindex.org/docs" } }