June 18, 2005
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:
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani 6,159,452
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 5,710,354
- Mehdi Karroubi 5,066,316
- Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf 4,075,189
- Mostafa Moin 3,054,204
- Ali Larijani 1,740,162
- Mohsen Mehralizadeh 1,289,223
The report added that over 1,221,940 ballets were invalidated.