Conservative judiciary head Ebrahim Raisi has been elected Iran’s eighth president, the interior ministry has announced.
The ministry confirmed on Saturday that Raisi won 61.95 percent of the vote in Friday’s election on a voter turnout of 48.8 percent – the lowest turnout for a presidential election since the 1979 revolution. Raisi got 28,933,004 votes.
At 3,726,870 votes, void votes finished second in the race, also for the first time since the establishment of the Islamic Republic.
Former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei finished third with 3,412,712 votes and was followed by moderate candidate Abdolnasswer Hemmati with 2,427, 201 votes, and conservative Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi with 999,718 votes.
“We didn’t have any violation that would have a significant impact on the outcome of the election,” Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli said during a press conference.
Rezaei, Hemmati and Hashemi had conceded ahead of the announcement on Saturday.