Raisi leads Iran’s presidential election by a wide margin

Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi has won the presidential election in Iran with 17.8 million votes

“28 million 600,000 of our compatriots participated in this election. Raisi won 17.8 million votes”, –  Jamal Orf, head of the Islamic Republic’s electoral headquarters, said when announcing the initial results of the election.

His rivals got significantly fewer votes: Mohsen Rezaee had 3.3 million votes, Abdolnasser Hemmati had 2.4 million votes, and Amir Hossein Qazizadeh had about 1 million votes. Orf added that these are only preliminary results of the vote, the final results will be announced during the day.