The Iranian City and Village Councils election of 2006 took place on December 15, 2006.
Every city and village in the country elected representatives.
Iran's 46.5 million eligible voters elected about 233,000 candidates for more than 113,000 city and rural council posts.
[4] According The Financial Times, partial results about cities other than Tehran indicated:[5] Safdar Hosseini, the provincial campaign coordinator for the Reformists Coalition, claimed that the reformists had won most of the 1,524 seats for municipal councils in 265 cities and that most of the independents have "reformist leanings".
This contravened normal practice, where results were announced gradually as vote counting was under way.