2021 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Date of Election18 June 2021
Number of Eligible Voters59,310,3071
Number of Actual Voters28,989,5292
Voter Turnout (%)48.8%
Number of Candidates Registered to Run5923


Number of Female Candidates Registered to Run404
Number of Candidates Allowed to Run 75
Percentage of Candidates Allowed to Run1.2%
Election WinnerSeyyed Ebrahimi Ra’isi
Number and Percentage of Votes Received by Winner18,021,945
62.16% 
First Runner-Up Mohsen Reza’i
First Runner-Up Number and Percentage of Votes Received3,440,835
11.86% 
Margin of Victory by the Winner50.3%
Names and Votes of Other CandidatesAbdolnaser Hemmati 2,443,387
8.42%
Seyyed Amir-Hoseyn Qazizadeh-Hashemi
1,003,650
3.46%
Invalid Ballots4,079,712 (14.07%)

Notes:

  1. 1,392,148 Iranians were eligible to vote for the first time in this election. According to the spokesperson for the Iranian foreign ministry, some 3.5 million expatriate Iranians were eligible to vote. See https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran-57452241
  2. Of the 592 registered candidates, 272 had a BA degree or less, and 320 had MA or higher degrees. 89 of the registered candidates were below the age of 40, 495 were between 40 and 75, and 8 people were above 75 years of age.

Sources:

[1] https://bit.ly/3bs5H5e.

[2] https://bit.ly/2SXxWCZ

[3] https://bit.ly/2SKmryc

[4] https://bit.ly/2SKmryc

[5] Seyyed Ebrahim Ra`isi, Saeed Jaili, Mohsen Reza’i, Abdolnasser Hemmati, Seyyed Amir-Hoseyn Qazizadeh- Hashemi, Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh, and Alireza Zakani.