Ebrahim Raisi wins Iran’s presidential election, leading with 62 percent of the vote after a partial ballot count - state tv
Ebrahim Raisi, a candidate in Iran's presidential elections waves to the media after casting his vote at a polling station in Tehran, Iran Friday, June 18, 2021. as his rivals conceded even before official results were announced.
According to preliminary vote count, Raisi won 62 percent or 17.8 million votes, to Rezaei's 3.3 million and Hemmati's 2.4 million, said Jamal Orf, the head of Iran's Interior Ministry election headquarters.The official said more than 28 million Iranians out of 59 million eligible voters had cast ballots.
"I congratulate the people on their choice," said Rouhani after Friday's vote as other candidates also congratulated Raisi. "My official congratulations will come later, but we know who got enough votes in this election and who is elected today by the people." The election on Friday was dominated by Raisi, a protege of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after the disqualification of the strongest competitors who could have challenged him in the vote. As night fell Friday, turnout appeared far lower than in Iran’s last presidential election in 2017.
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