The 2024 election boycott is the stay-away around two official votes: the 1 March parliamentary election (11 Esfand 1402) and the snap presidential election of 28 June, with a 5 July runoff (8 and 15 Tir 1403). After Woman Life Freedom, people treated the ballot as a ritual of the Islamic Republic, not a choice. Catalog titles that name the 2024 presidential, legislative, or generic "election boycott" are gathered here. They are not merged into protest waves from other years.¹

March parliamentary vote

Iran International's Farsi live file from 11 Esfand records empty polling places and Iranian papers calling the turnout the lowest of twelve post-1979 Majlis votes. Reza Pahlavi wrote that Iranians had, by a rare unity in boycott, staged the largest civil disobedience in their history, and that the silence was not only a protest but a turn in the method of taking Iran back. State organs called the same day an epic of participation. Those two sentences cannot both describe the street.¹

Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi later put turnout at about 41 percent, some 25 million ballots from more than 61 million eligible voters. BBC Persian carried that official figure and noted that Alborz, a province that had been at the front of the previous year's protests, was reported by IRNA at 24 percent. Officials described the turnout as trust. The empty stations and the boycott call say otherwise. Invalid-vote shares were disputed. This note reports the ministry number as a government statement, not as a verified census.²

June and July presidential vote

The presidential vote followed Ebrahim Raisi's death. The election headquarters said 24,535,183 people voted in the first round, 4.5 percent of them blank or spoiled, for an official rate of 39.92 percent including those ballots. Iran International compared that claim with film of empty stations on 8 Tir and treated the official rate as not credible. Masoud Pezeshkian won the runoff. Ali Khamenei, not the president, keeps final authority. Later Western copy that treated the runoff as a reformist opening repeated a familiar frame. The boycott was the political fact of the year.³

This archive holds boycott titles including 2024 Iranian presidential election boycott. Later "reformist" or official-opposition names are not treated here as the voice of that stay-away.

This archive

"2024 Iranian presidential election boycott," "2024 Iranian legislative election boycott," and "2024 Iranian election boycott" are gathered here. Memorial titles that mention May 2024 without naming an election stay on their own pages.