Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won the presidential run-off, the spokesman for the Islamic Republic’s Election Office, Mohsen Eslami, announced.
After all the 30.530 mln ballots have been counted, Pezeshkian scored at least 53.6% of the vote, or 16.384 mln votes, to become Iran's ninth president, Eslami announced on IRIB TV channel.
His conservative opponent Saeed Jalili took 44.3% of the vote, or 13.538 mln votes.
Voter turnout reached 49.8%, the election official said.
Iranians voted in the run-off on Friday.
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Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian won the second round of the presidential elections in Iran, according to the official representative of the electoral headquarters of the Islamic Republic, Mohsen Eslami.
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