Final election results announced
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, June 18, IRNA
Iran-Election-Tally
Iran Election Headquarters released Saturday the official result for the 9th Presidential Elections.
IRNA reported from the headquarters that of the 29,317,042 votes cast Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani and Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad drew the most votes and will contest in a run-off election on Friday.
The number of votes cast for each candidate is the following:
1. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani 6,159,452
2. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 5,710,354
3. Mehdi Karroubi 5,066,316
4. Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf 4,075,189
5. Mostafa Moin 3,054,204
6. Ali Larijani 1,740,162
7. Mohsen Mehralizadeh 1,289,223
The report added that over 1,221,940 ballets were invalidated.
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