2039 Persian Presidential Election

The **2039 Persian Presidential Election** was held on Saturday November 5, 2039 and was the sixth election for the office of president of the Republic of Persia. The election was held concurrently with scheduled legislative elections, and was the first to take place under modified electoral rules and the new 2036 electoral boundary map. The election was also the first under the 2025 constitution that more than two parties or alliances won any states, and the first election since 2024 that Geena Kulmuni was not a candidate.

Following the 2035 presidential election and the inauguration of Hassen Ahmed as president, the government of Persia underwent major changes as Ahmed and the Union for Persia sought to undo large parts of the policy programme of former president Geena Kulmuni. However, legal commitments to the Fox Dynasty and the ongoing war with the Bovido Imperium meant the new administration was forced to abandon its pledge to cut ties with the Libirachi government, whilst economic mismanagement and the ongoing war saw the Persian economy collapse. During the 2038-41 political crisis, Ahmed was forced to resign as leader of the Union for Persia and was ultimately succeeded by former prime minister Tamim bin Hamad, who rebranded the party as a populist conservative movement.

By the final registration date of October 1, 2039, only three major candidates had qualified to appear on the ballot due to the formation of alliances and the refusal of some parties to engage in the election. The three candidates were: former prime minister and UfP general secretary Tamim bin Hamad, with the backing of the Union for Persia and the Islamic Conservative Party, former prime minister Tamim bin Hamad; incumbent prime minister and Progressive Party general secretary Amal Alamuddin, with the backing of the Progressive Party and the Persian Worker's Party; and People's Party leader Aabid Rafiq.

Under of the 2025 Constitution, the 2039 presidential election was held through an electoral college, with each of the 81 proportionally sized states and provinces of the Republic of Persia having a single vote; following modifications to the electoral rules in 2036, any candidate with a simple plurality of states would be designated as the winner, lowering the bar for victory from the previous requirement to win 41 out of 81 states. Each state held their own independent elections, with states all using first past the post to determine the allocation of state votes to candidates. All of the 81 states have a rough population of approximately 1.1 million, which ensures that no one region is under represented and no regions are underrepresented in the electoral system; in 2036, the National People's Congress voted to pass boundary changes to the states to ensure that they remained equal in population and the changes entered into force for the first time in the 2039 presidential election. In the instance that a candidate won the popular vote and not the states vote, congress possesses the power to annul the electoral college vote in order to ensure that the results were fair and democratic.

On November 7, 2039, the independent Electoral Board published official results from the election, showing Tamim bin Hamad to have gained 38 out of 81 states, Amal Alamuddin to have won 27, and Aabid Rafiq to have won 16. Consequently, without legal challenge from any of the other candidates, Tamim bin Hamad was formally certified as president-elect by the Electoral Board. The following week, on November 17, 2039, Tamim bin Hamad was formally inaugurated by chief justice Adly Mansour as the tenth president of the Republic of Persia. Within hours of taking office, bin Hamad demanded the resignation of prime minister Amal Alamuddin and launched coalition talks between the Union for Persia, People's Party, and Islamic Conservative Party to attempt to form a replacement administration