Rohani secures landslide victory
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, June 15, IRNA -- Hassan Rohani secured landslide victory with 16,413,281 votes out of a total of 32,189,621 votes counted so far, the Interior Ministry said.
The Interior Ministryˈs Elections Headquarters said that 31,106,865 of the votes counted so far were valid, a reference to several hundred thousand ballots dismissed as invalid.
Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf with 5,073,652 votes, Saeed Jalili with 3,665,234 votes, Mohsen Rezaie Mir-Ghaed with 3,593,507 votes, Ali-Akbar Velayati with 1,969,351 votes and Seyed Mohammad Gharazi with 391,840 votes follow Rowhani in the list released this hour.
The votes were obtained from 52,424 polling stations from total 58,764.
Counting ballots of the remaining 6,340 polling stations is underway, it said.
The final result will be released in the next two to three hours.
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