Iran: election results by county

2017 · 1 election · IRN

SAGE has presidential election results for Iran from 2017. The smallest unit is the county. The 2017 election has 430 counties, and 100% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for every election.

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Elections

Units are the smallest units in the data, and located units are those with coordinates. A year with several rows has several contests or votes; filter on them before you add up votes.

Year	Election type	Vote type	Round	Units	% located	Votes	Polygons
2017	Presidential			430	100%	39,996,735	yes	[map]

Download

csv opens in Excel, Stata, R, or Python. gpkg has the unit boundaries for QGIS, ArcGIS, R, or Python. parquet has the vote rows as Parquet. rds is the native R sf object. Each ZIP has a README with the columns.

All years: [csv 32 KB] [gpkg 91 KB] [parquet 116 KB] [rds 97 KB] [codebook 122 KB]

Year	Downloads
2017	[csv 32 KB] [gpkg 91 KB] [parquet 40 KB]

In R or Python:

R:      install.packages("sage")
        sage::sage_load("Iran", years = 2017)

Python: import sage
        sage.sage_load("Iran", years=[2017])

Sources

Ministry of Interior

Notes

Iranian election results are purportedly reported by city, though in some instances (Chardavol specifically) the unit is above or below that level; furthermore, there appears to be some degree of undercounting in the results. Polygons are obtained by getting “city” centroids then constructing Thiessen polygons, so between the apparent result undercounting and the absence of formal unit boundaries there is more error than expected on average here.

Citation

Dasanaike, Noah. “The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset.” Scientific Data (2026). Paper · Harvard Dataverse

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