Partial results show that Iran’s incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is close to winning the elections in a landslide victory, gaining 64.31 percent of the votes. His campaign manager Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi has already claimed victory. According to Press TV’s correspondent at the Election Commission Headquarters, the latest statistics announced by the Iranian electoral officials show 94 percent of the ballots have been counted so far.
It is expected that vote counting will finish in less than an hour.
Former Prime Minister, Mir Hossein Mousavi, who had earlier claimed victory with 54 percent of the votes, has so far gained 32.57 percent of the votes that were counted up to 8:30 a.m. local time (0400 GMT).
The latest results show that former IRGC Commander, Mohsen Rezaei, won 1.66 percent of the votes and two-time parliament (Majlis) speaker Mehdi Karroubi (1989-1992 and 2000-2004) grabbed 0.83 percent.
Officials estimate the voter turnout at around 80 percent.