1928 Persian legislative election

none 1928 Persian legislative election Iran State flag of Iran (1933–1964).svg legislative no 1926 Persian legislative election 1926 1930 Persian legislative election 1930 1928 All 136 seats to the National Consultative Assembly Progress Party Abdolhossein Teymourtash 120px 90% Did not stand Prime Minister Mehdi Qoli Hedayat Mehdi Qoli Hedayat 122 6E260E Independent 10% 14 CDCDCD Parliament 1928.svg In the elections for the seventh Majlis, systematically rigged by the military and Interior ministry, handpicked representatives of Reza Shah were chosen to the parliament to ensure the exclusion of recalcitrantsAzimi Fakhreddin Quest for Democracy in Iran: A Century of Struggle Against Authoritarian Rule https://archive.org/details/questfordemocrac00azim limited Harvard University Press 2008 56 978-0674027787 and "unsuitable candidates who insisted on running found themselves either in jail or banished from their localities".Abrahamian Ervand A History of Modern Iran https://archive.org/details/historymodernira00abra limited 2008 Cambridge University Press 978-0521528917 73 During the campaign, all public speeches were prohibited by police. Hassan Modarres who was Tehran's most voted deputy in the previous election, was expelled without even a single vote in his favor. He objected the results, famously asking "What about the vote that I had cast for myself?". Other candidates such as Mohammad Mossadegh, Hassan Taghizadeh and Hossein Ala' were not elected despite the demand for them.Ladjevardi Habib Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran 1985 Syracuse University Press 0815623437 19 registration https://archive.org/details/laborunionsautoc0000ladj/page/19 The royalist supporters of Reza Shah flourishing in Progress Party, were the majority of the parliament, dominating about 90% of the seats.Atabaki Touraj Zurcher Erik Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization Under Atatürk and Reza Shah https://archive.org/details/menorderauthorit00atab limited I.B.Tauris 2004 9781860644269 93 The opposition was a minority with only two-seats held by Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi representing Yazd and Mahmoud Reza Tolou of Lahijan.Haddad Adel Gholamali Elmi Mohammad Jafar Taromi-Rad Hassan Political Parties: Selected Entries from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam 31 August 2012 EWI Press 9781908433022 37 References Category:1928 elections in Asia Legislative Category:Electoral fraud in Iran Category:National Consultative Assembly elections Category:One-party elections