Abstract
The present study examines the process of holding the National Consultative Assembly elections in the Kermanshah constituency from 1971 to 1978, with regard to political and social factors and their impact on electoral behavior on the eve of the Islamic Revolution. During this period, the Pahlavi regime, by establishing a single-party system and directly intervening in the electoral process, tried to use official institutions, including the National Consultative Assembly, to consolidate its political authority. The present study, using a descriptive-analytical method and based on library studies and citing archival documents, especially documents of the Islamic Revolution and domestic press, seeks to answer the question of how the elections were held in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth terms of the National Consultative Assembly in Kermanshah and what challenges they faced? The findings show that the elections in Kermanshah, like other constituencies in the country, were not held without the intervention of the government, government officials, and tribal and tribal leaders, but rather were held in an atmosphere of order and complete control of the government. These results indicate that the ethno-social context of Kermanshah played an important role in the formation of popular demands, but the authoritarian structure of the Pahlavi regime limited the possibility of this being realized.

Keywords: Kermanshah, National Assembly elections, Revolutionary Decade, Political Participation.
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