1943–1944 Iranian legislative election

Iranian legislative election, 1943–1944
November 1943/February 1944
All 136 seats to the National Consultative Assembly
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Sadegh Tabatabai Ziaeddin Tabatabai Ali Dashti
Party National Union Party National Will Party Justice Party
Leader's seat Tehran Yazd Tehran
Seats won 30 26 15
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Mehdi Farrokh Soleiman Eskandari Mohammad Mosaddegh
Party Tribal unions Tudeh Party Iran Party
Leader's seat Zabol Did not stand Tehran
Seats won 11 8 6
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Leader Mostafa Fateh Ja'far Pishevari Qazi Muhammad
Party Comrades Party Azerbaijani Democratic Party Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
Leader's seat Did not stand Tabriz Did not stand
Seats won 2 1 1
Prime Minister before election

Ali Soheili

 Elected Prime Minister

Mohammad Sa'ed

The elections for the 14th Parliament of Iran was held in November 1943–February 1944 and more than 800 candidates ran for 136 seats.

Ervand Abrahamian wrote in 1982 that the elections were "the most prolonged, most competitive and most meaningful of all elections in modern Iran".

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