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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1954 Iranian legislative election
| flag_image    = State flag of Iran (1933–1964).svg
| country = Iran
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1952 Iranian legislative election
| previous_year = 1952
| next_election = 1956 Iranian legislative election
| next_year = 1956
| seats_for_election = All 136 seats to the [[Parliament of Iran|National Consultative Assembly]]
| election_date = January–March 1954

| title= Prime Minister
| before_election= [[Fazlollah Zahedi]]
| before_party= 
| after_election= [[Fazlollah Zahedi]]
| after_party = 
}}
Parliamentary elections were held in [[Iran]] in 1954.  [[Political party|Political parties]] were banned from contesting the [[General election|election]], and all 136 elected MPs were [[Independent (politician)|independent]]s.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Dieter|last1=Nohlen|author-link1=Dieter Nohlen|first2=Florian|last2=Grotz|first3=Christof |last3=Hartmann |year=2001|title=Elections in Asia: A Data Handbook|publisher=Oxford University Press|chapter=Iran|volume=I|page=68|isbn=0-19-924958-X}}</ref>

The elections were "[[Electoral fraud|rigged]] and far from a legitimate process".<ref>{{cite book|first1=Barbara Ann|last1=Rieffer-Flanagan|year=2013|title=Evolving Iran: An Introduction to Politics and Problems in the Islamic Republic|publisher=Georgetown University Press|pages=85–86|isbn=9781589019782}}</ref>

Upper house elections began in February while the lower house elections in provinces began at the same time. Lower house election in [[Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr (electoral district)|Tehran]] was held on March 9 and 10.<ref name="IBT">{{cite book |author=Houchang E. Chehabi|title=Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini|publisher=I.B.Tauris|pages=134–135|date=1990|isbn=1850431981}}</ref>

== Campaign ==
The outlawed opposition formed by the [[National Front (Iran)|National Front]] activists after [[1953 Iranian coup d'état|1953 coup d'état]], 'National Resistance Movement' (NRM) put all its effort to campaign for its twelve candidates in Tehran, namely [[Ahmad Razavi]], [[Abdollah Moazzami]], [[Allahyar Saleh]], [[Ali Shayegan]], [[Kazem Hassibi]], [[Mohammad-Ali Angaji]], [[Mahmoud Nariman]], [[Karim Sanjabi]], [[Bagher Jalali Mousavi]], [[Asghar Parsa]], [[Ahmad Akhgar]] and [[Ahmad Zirakzadeh]], of whom some were in hiding.<ref name="IBT"/> However, they could not rely on a vast network of activists because of suffering from organizational weakness. To distribute NRM statements in Tehran, [[Mehdi Bazargan|Bazargan]] and [[Shapour Bakhtiar|Bakhtiar]] had to take taxi and throw the paper out of the window and speak in French to conceal their identity and purpose from the driver.<ref name="IBT"/> Bazargan organized some 2,000 nationalists to vote in [[Sepahsalar Mosque]], however they were barred from casting their vote by the security forces, the ''čāqukeš'' led by [[Shaban Jafari]] and fascist organizations like [[SUMKA]], who were present in the streets.<ref name="IBT"/>

== Results ==
* In [[Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr (electoral district)|Tehran]], all 12 winners declared were pro-[[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah]] candidates led by Ja'far Behbahani. A seat was also given to Mohammad Derakhshesh, a trade unionist and chairman of Teachers Association.<ref name="IBT"/>

== Media coverage ==
=== In the United States ===
''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that a voter bowed three times to the ballot box and when asked why, he said "I am merely making my obeisance to the magic box. When one drops in a ballot for [[Mohammad Mosaddeq|Mohammad [Mosaddeq]]], lo, when the ballot is opened it is transformed into a vote for [[Fazlollah Zahedi|Fazlollah [Zahedi]]]".<ref name="IBT"/>

''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine reported:
{{quote|text=Item: a constituency near [[Kerman]] beat up the man Zahedi sent there to be elected; Zahedi suspended the balloting. Item: a former Iranian ambassador to the U.S. [Allahyar Saleh] announced himself as a pro-Mossadegh candidate from [[Kashan]]; Zahedi forced him to remain in Teheran.; Item: the powerful Zolfaghari tribe in the northwest rigged the election of two pro-Mossadegh deputies; Zahedi arrested the chiefs for using "undue force" on the voters. Moral: nobody in Iran save [[Fazlollah Zahedi]] is allowed to use undue force on voters|source=''Time''<ref name="IBT"/>}}

==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Iranian elections}}

[[Category:1954 elections in Asia|Iranian general election]]
[[Category:1954 in Iran|general election]]
[[Category:Non-partisan elections]]
[[Category:Iranian Senate elections]]
[[Category:National Consultative Assembly elections]]
[[Category:Electoral fraud in Iran]]
[[Category:Lower house elections in Iran]]


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