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2000 Iranian legislative election

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Field	Value
election_name	2000 Iranian legislative election
country	Iran
type	parliamentary
vote_type	Popular
previous_year	[1996](1996-iranian-legislative-election)
election_date	18 February and 5 May 2000
next_year	[2004](2004-iranian-legislative-election)
seats_for_election	All 290 seats of Islamic Consultative Assembly
majority_seats	146
registered	38,726,388
turnout	69.27%
party1	{{collapsible list
titlestyle	font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:left;
title	Parties
alliance1	Reformists
seats1	195≈222
seat_change1
swing1
nominee2
candidate2
party2	{{collapsible list
titlestyle	font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:left;
title	Parties
alliance2	Principlists
districts_won2
seats2	54≈74
alliance3	Nationalist–Religious
seats3	2
2data2
map_image	6th Parliament.svg
map_caption	Composition of the Assembly following the election
title	Speaker
before_election	Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
before_party	Combatant Clergy
after_election	Mehdi Karroubi
after_party	Combatant Clerics
colour1	48D1CC
colour2	0077B6
colour3	EC8B1D

| IIPF | ACC | IISP | ECP | ILP | OSU | WH | AWIR | IAE | IAU | IAT | IAM | AFIL | CCA | ISC | SDIR | ZS | ISE | ISA | ISE | ISS | IAP Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 18 February 2000, with a second round on 5 May. The result was a solid victory for 2nd of Khordad Front and its allies, the reformist supporters of President Mohammad Khatami.

Campaign

A total of 6,083 candidates contested the elections. Registration process took place between 11 and 16 December 1999.

Main reformist coalition lists were "2nd of Khordad Press" and "Coalition of 15 Groups Supporting 2nd of Khordad" (including 11 out of 18 members in the 2nd of Khordad Front) and main principlist coalition was Coalition of Followers of the Line of Imam and Leader. Rest of lists were issued by solitary parties. For the first time Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists of Iran issued an electoral list and was able to win two exclusive seats (Alireza Rajaei in Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr and Rahman Kargosha in Arak, Komijan and Khondab) but the Guardian Council declared their votes "voided".

Results

;Inter-Parliamentary Union Inter-Parliamentary Union report cites the following results:

Electoral list	1st round seats	2nd round seats	Total seats won
[2nd of Khordad Front](2nd-of-khordad-front)	170	52	222
Front of Followers of the Line of the Imam and the Leader	45	9	54
Independents	10	4	14
Source: Inter-Parliamentary Union

;Samii (2000) :The data includes first round only.

Electoral list	1◦ round seats	Total		225
Reformists	148
Conservatives	37
Independents	35
Religious minorities	5
Source: A. W. Samii

;Bakhash (2001) :The data includes second round only.

Electoral list	2◦ round seats	Total		66
Reformists	47
Conservatives	10
Independents	9
Source: Bakhash

Shaul Bakhash states that reformers had a comfortable majority, however estimates differed as to the size of this majority. He cites Behzad Nabavi's account (reformers 200 seats, the conservatives 58, and independents 18) as "inflated", but considers Payam-e Emruz report (which states that 150 MPs are committed to the "2nd of Khordad agenda") reliable. Bakhash additionally suggests that votes cast for the Speakers provide a better gauge of the distribution of forces, concluding that 50 to 60 deputies were affiliated with the Combatant Clergy Association, 150 with Islamic Iran Participation Front and 15 to the Executives of Construction. The most detailed results, with data down to the province level, can be found on the "Iran Data Portal". ;Nohlen et al. (2001) :In the following table, the Independents are counted as "allies".

Party	Seats	+/–
Islamic Iran Participation Front and allies	216	New
Combatant Clergy Association and allies	74	–36
Total	290	+20
Source: Nohlen et al.

;Abrahamian (2008) Ervand Abrahamian cites that reformist enjoyed a majority (69.25%), or 26.8 million, of the 38.7 million voters who cast ballots in the February 18, 2000 first round. Ultimately reformists won 195 of the 290 Majlis seats in that election. ; Kazemzadeh (2008)

Faction	Seats	Bloc seats
Right-wing hardliners	50	75a
Executives of Construction	60	215a
Reformists	130
Independents	50	a
Source: Kazemzadeh
a 25 Independents for each bloc

References

(2001). "Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook". [[Oxford University Press]].
"Parliamentary Chamber: Majlis Shoraye Eslami; Elections held in 2000". Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Guy Engelman. (2 February 2000). "A Background to Iran's Forthcoming Majlis Elections". The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Fattah. Gholami. link. Jamejam Online. (23 February 2012)
Beheshti, Ebrahim. (4 January 2016). "گزارش "ایران" از صف‌آرایی گروه‌های سیاسی در ۹ دوره انتخابات مجلس". [[Iran (newspaper).
A. W. Samii. (March 2000). "Iran's 2000 Elections". The Middle East Review of International Affairs.
Shaul Bakhash. (2001). "Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States". Palgrave=.
"Parliamentary Elections | Iran Data Portal".
Ervand Abrahamian. (2008). "A History of Modern Iran". Cambridge University Press.
Masoud Kazemzadeh. (2008). "Intra-Elite Factionalism and the 2004 Majles Elections in Iran". Middle Eastern Studies.

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