Rohani Still Ahead In Election Results

Tehran, June 15, IRNA – The latest results of Iranˈs presidential election vote counting Saturday showed that Hassan Rohani is remarkably leading his rivals at the 11th presidential election, winning 6,049,655 votes. According to the ninth statement issued by the election headquarters of the Interior Ministry, the results were gained out of the 11,686,139 valid votes from a total 12,091,699 counted in 21,376 polling stations so far. The latest results of the vote counts are as follows: Hassan Rohani: 6,049,655 Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf: 1,844,463 Mohsen Rezaei: 1,518,964 Saeed Jalili: 1,400,712 Ali Akbar Velayati: 729,044 Mohammad Gharazi: 143,301 Under the election rules, a candidate has to win more than 50 percent of the total votes cast to win outright. A first round winner gaining less than that must compete with the runner-up in a second round a week later. Millions of Iranians on Friday attended polling stations to choose the country’s 11th president as well as their representatives in the city and rural councils. Some 50.5 million Iranians, including over 1.6 million first-time voters, were eligible to vote in the presidential elections./end