Masoud Pezeshkian Wins Iranian Presidential Election
Mohsen Eslami, spokesperson for Iran's election headquarters, shared the final election results on Saturday morning.
With a total of 30,530,157 votes counted, Pezeshkian secured a strong lead with 16,384,403 votes, while Jalili received 13,538,179 votes.
Over 61 million Iranians were eligible to vote this Friday. The vote count started right after the polling ended, concluding a 16-hour voting period that recorded a voter turnout of 49.7 percent, which was notably higher than the turnout for the June 28 election.
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Polling hours were extended three times on Friday, each extension lasting two hours beyond the 6:00 PM local time deadline, which is the constitutional limit for a 10-hour voting window.
The polls officially closed at midnight. Subsequently, the counting of votes took place at numerous polling stations throughout Iran.
The snap election was called after the sudden passing of President Ebrahim Raisi and seven other officials in a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran on May 19.
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