More than 1 million votes were voided, according to the results, typically a sign of people feeling obligated to cast a ballot but not wanting to select any of the candidates.
Iranian law requires that a winner gets more than 50 percent of all votes cast. If not, the race’s top two candidates advance to a runoff a week later. | Vahid Salemi/APIran will hold a runoff presidential election pitting a little-known reformist against a hard-line former nuclear negotiator after results released Saturday showed the lowest-ever poll turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.
“Let’s look at it as a protest in its own right: A very widespread choice to reject what’s on offer — both the candidates and the system,” said Sanam Vakil, the director of Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa program. “That tells us a lot about public opinion and apathy, frustration. It sort of brings it all together.”
The overall turnout was 39.9 percent, according to the results. The 2021 presidential election that elected Raisi saw a 48.8 percent turnout, while the March parliamentary election saw a 40.6 percent turnout.. Mir Hossein Mousavi, one of the leaders of the 2009 Green Movement protests who remains under house arrest, has also refused to vote along with his wife, his daughter said.
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