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2024 Iranian presidential election

2024 Iranian presidential election

← 2021 28 June 2024 (first round)
5 July 2024 (second round)
Registered61,452,321
Turnout39.93% (first round) Decrease 8.55pp
49.68% (second round)
 
Nominee Masoud Pezeshkian Saeed Jalili
Party Independent Independent
Alliance Reformists Principlists
Popular vote 16,384,403 13,538,179
Percentage 54.76% 45.24%


President before election

Mohammad Mokhber (acting)
Independent

Elected President

Masoud Pezeshkian
Independent

Early presidential elections in Iran were held on 28 June and 5 July 2024[1] following the death of incumbent president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on 19 May.[2]

Four candidates contested the first round of the election, in which Masoud Pezeshkian won 44%, Saeed Jalili won 40%, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf won 14% and Mostafa Pourmohammadi won less than 1% of the vote. Pezeshkian was the only reformist candidate on the ballot.[3] As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a run off vote was held on 5 July between Jalili and Pezeshkian,[4] which the latter won with 53.7% of the vote. On 6 July 2024, the Ministry of Interior declared Pezeshkian the winner of the election,[5] with Jalili conceding defeat shortly thereafter.[6]

With a 39.93% turnout, the first round of the election saw the lowest participation for a presidential election in the Islamic Republic's history.[7] The turnout improved in the second round to 49.68%. Pezeshkian was seated as president after the ballot certification process was completed. His inauguration was held on 28 July.

  1. ^ "Iran to hold presidential elections on June 28 after Raisi's death". Al Arabiya. Archived from the original on 20 May 2024. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Iran helicopter crash: President Ebrahim Raisi killed in helicopter crash". BBC News. 20 May 2024. Archived from the original on 20 May 2024. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  3. ^ "Profile: Masoud Pezeshkian, new reformist president of Islamic Republic of Iran". www.aa.com.tr. Archived from the original on 6 July 2024. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  4. ^ Gambrell, Jon; Karimi, Nasser (29 June 2024). "Iran to hold runoff election with reformist Pezeshkian and hard-liner Jalili after low-turnout vote". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 29 June 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  5. ^ Cassini, Farnaz; Vinograd, Cassandra (5 July 2024). "Reformist Candidate Wins Iran's Presidential Election". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 6 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Centrist Masoud Pezeshkian will be Iran's next president". Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera Media Network. 6 July 2024. Archived from the original on 6 July 2024. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Iran heads to presidential run-off amid record low turnout". Al Jazeera. 29 June 2024. Archived from the original on 29 June 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024.

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