Iran: the underside of the electoral cards

The socio-demographer Marie Ladier-Fouladi presents the electoral cards that she built from the official results of the presidential elections of 2005 and 2009. The comparative analysis of these documents brings, if not the evidence, at least the indices of the fraud committed by the fundamentalist faction of power to ensure the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Marie Ladier-Fouladi, socio-demographer and researcher at Cnrshas been studying the electoral cartography of the Islamic Republic for several years. While the Iranian power deliberately seeks to blur the tracks to hide the extent of the fraud committed, the construction of electoral cards from the information available on the site of the Iranian Interior Ministry reveals very unlikely developments between the elections of 2005 and 2009. Cartographic analysis suggests the strategies used by the power to orient the result of the elections of June 12.

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In 2008, in an article published in The life of ideasMarie Ladier-Fouladi already analyzed the internal crisis of the Iranian regime based on the results of the legislative elections. Very recently, she published a work entitled Iran. A world of paradoxes (Paris, Atalante, coll. “ Like an accordion »). In particular, it highlights the gap which continues to grow between the changes in Iranian society (decrease in the fertility rate, elevation of the literacy rate, evolution of lifestyles, etc.) and the hardening of the regime.

Nicolas Delalande.

Video summary:

  • The 2005 presidential election: the bastions of the fundamentalist vote
  • The 2009 presidential election: the indices of organized fraud
  • What means does Iranian power have to manipulate the electoral results ?
  • To what extent is it an internal crisis in the Iranian regime ?
  • Can we speak of a democratic revolution ?

The 2005 presidential election: the bastions of the fundamentalist vote

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The 2009 presidential election: the indices of organized fraud

The cards commented in this video can be viewed at the bottom of the page.


What means does Iranian power have to manipulate the electoral results ?


To what extent is it an internal crisis in the Iranian regime ?


Can we speak of a democratic revolution ?