2017 Iranian presidential election
12th Presidential election of the Islamic Republic of Iran / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Presidential elections were held in Iran on 19 May 2017, the twelfth of such elections. Local elections were held simultaneously.
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Turnout | 73.33% ( 0.62pp) | ||||||||||||||||
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Candidate registration took place from 11 to 15 April 2017. Incumbent president Hassan Rouhani was eligible to run for re-election. His rivals were the conservatives' top candidate Ebrahim Raisi, the Islamic Coalition Party's Mostafa Mir-Salim and Mostafa Hashemitaba who ran with no partisan support.[1]
Rouhani was re-elected for a second term. According to results announced by the Interior Ministry, Rouhani received 59% of the vote, while his closest rival Ebrahim Raisi received 39%. Rouhani was re-inaugurated on 5 August 2017 taking the oath of office for the second time at the Parliament of Iran.